\nChina is turning from red to green
\nShopping mall at Chengdu IFS. Image credit: Wwklion (Wikimedia Commons)
\nLEED-certified buildings are mushrooming across mainland China.
\nThis week, a building in Chengdu became the first building in southwest China to be certified LEED EBOM Platinum (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance).
\nOvershooting Platinum standards with a score of 7 points plus, the Chengdu International Finance Square (IFS), a 760,000-square-metre development by The Wharf (Holdings) Ltd, now boasts a 35 percent higher energy efficiency than average.
\n\u201cBeing the first and the largest LEED EBOM Platinum building in southwest China, Chengdu IFS has set up a milestone,\u201d Christina Hau, general manager for operations of Wharf China Estates Ltd said in a statement.
\nJohnson Controls, whose core business units include building efficiency and LEED consulting, was enlisted to improve the structure\u2019s HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning) technology. It also provided a customized array of services that included the enhancement of the building management systems and the debugging of its energy consumption system.
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Chengdu IFS\u2019s ascendance to LEED-certified status marks another milestone for China, saddled with a momentous air pollution problem, especially in Beijing, and being held into account by the international community for carbon (CO2) emissions. Last year, a Shanghai building, AZIA Center, also achieved LEED Platinum status under the EBOM program, the first office building in China to do so.
China is turning from red to green Shopping mall at Chengdu IFS. 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\nIn 2012, China was the largest contributor to carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production, according to a Belfer Center study.
\nLEED\u2019s EBOM program is designed to retrofit existing structures to become energy-efficient and more environmentally sustainable, in the belief that the greenest building \u201cis the one already built.\u201d LEED certification is now growing in vogue in China, with an annual growth rate of 40 percent.
\nResponsible for some 25 percent of global CO2 emissions, China is hoping to achieve LEED certification for 30 percent of new construction projects by 2020.
\nAsia in general is becoming a notable force in the world of green buildings.
\nSingapore recently ranked second in the world in terms of green buildings, and just over the pond from China, last month Taipei 101 was announced to be the world\u2019s tallest green building. The skyscraper is the highest scoring LEED v4 project in the world, the first to reach the 90 points threshold.
\nIn Asia, some 6,700 projects have been registered, and over 2,100 projects are now LEED certified as green buildings.
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\nSource : property-report.com
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