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Session
Keynote 3: Speaker: Ada Fung
Time:
Monday, 10/Dec/2018:
4:00pm - 4:30pm

Location: LT1
Lecture Theatre 1, G/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK

Topic: Green Buildings for Everyone, Everywhere: Dreams and Miracles


Session Abstract

The Green Building Movement embraces all of humanity by making suitable buildings and environment accessible to everyone, everywhere, and in doing so, benefits the natural environment around us. First and foremost, Planning and Design Process is pivotal to our long term success in reducing consumption. We must strive to overcome challenges, and apply passive, low emission design as a first principle.

However, in a high rise high density compact city like Hong Kong in sub-tropical climate with typhoon exposure, the road to planning and designing for passive and low energy developments is always full of challenges. 

Take affordable housing as an example, we have always been striving to make rational use of resources. The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA) overcomes challenges, bringing passive and low carbon design, total quality, safety & health, sustainability from dreams to fruition. These can be broadly outlined as follows, covering process, products and people aspects :

(1) The overarching principles of sustainability are at work. HKHA has been applying lean design, lean construction and integrated development strategies all the time. 

(2) HKHA has been systematically reducing resources consumption for about two decades. More stringent codes like visual impact, noise mitigation, air ventilation, universal accessibility and illumination requirements for people with different abilities are introduced over a period of time.

(3) HKHA plants dreams and grow miracles, as it embarks on a road of passive and low carbon design and continue to excel. Engagement of people, comprising staff, business partners, users and stakeholders is key to success. 


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