Wherever ecologically friendly commercial buildings take shape there is a good chance that forward-thinking serviced office providers will follow in order to offer businesses a green alternative.
Experts committed to creating office buildings using sustainable materials and methods, with energy-saving and environmentally friendly designs, will gather in Hong Kong for the 'premier green building event' in Asia-Pacific.
The fourth GreenBuild Asia-Pacific Conference and Tradeshow at the Mira Hotel, from May 17 to 19, will also feature government and industry leaders discussing the latest developments in green buildings.
The event will include a 'Live Project, Hands On' in which those at the helm of four continuing projects will work with conference delegates to discuss their work and consider new ideas.
Each session will involve 30 to 50 industry professionals invited to tackle one issue and to solve a problem related to those encountered by the 'real-life' partner project. The project owner will first make a 30-minute presentation then preselected stakeholders, or interested parties, will lead a quartet of 45-minute mini workshops, each focusing on a particular aspect of the problem. If little headway is made in solving the green-issue problems, then at least the delegates would have had the chance to network and sell products or services to each other.
The first project will look into the development on the former airport site at Kai Tak. Developments there will include parks, a cruise ship terminal and sustainable buildings. But one of the biggest problems will be the cleaning of polluted waterways.