How Hong Kong drives strong sustainable building performance through comprehensive assessment tool
- BEAM Plus rating tool designed to guide city’s transformation into green built environment through use of clear world-leading standards
- Non-profit organisation Hong Kong Green Building Council backs change in city where buildings are responsible for 60 per cent of carbon footprint
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Establishing Hong Kong as a sustainable city for the future was the driving force behind the creation of BEAM Plus, the city’s green building assessment tool.
This fair and objective green building assessment standard is one of the many tools the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC), a non-profit organisation raising awareness of sustainable development, is using to educate the construction and building industry about reducing Hong Kong’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Buildings are responsible for 60 per cent of the city’s carbon footprint.
“BEAM Plus guides the development of industry standards, best practices, education and research,” Colin Chung, director of HKGBC, says.
Developers must meet a set of criteria set out by BEAM Plus for their buildings to be classified as sustainable.
