Tag Archives: BEAM Plus
Regulatory Support for BEAM Plus Green Building
As manufacturing moved North into China, Hong Kong has been left with a legacy of under utilized factory space and industrial buildings. There is only so much demand for low yield warehouse and storage space, so opportunities to move up … Continue reading
inverted sustainability
The HKSAR Council for Sustainable Development (CSD) conducted a year long consultation exercise titled Building Design to Foster a Quality and Sustainable Built Environment. And now CSD has released the report [link]. One of the many issues raised in by … Continue reading
BEAM Plus for green building
The Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method or BEAM launched the 2009 BEAM Plus version for assessment and certification of green buildings last Friday (20 Nov 2009). One version BEAM Plus EB covers existing buildings, and the other BEAM Plus … Continue reading
Green Building in Asia: It’s more advanced than you think
I feel the author of this blog article should have conducted a little more research before gushing over yet another green building conference in Asia, that event is certainly not the first green building event in Asia, and I am … Continue reading
Green Building – new insurance revenue
For the insurance business most of the media reports and predictions are dire, focused on the increasing losses, particularly the financial crisis and increasing claims many resulting from increasing number of natural disasters it said. Finally big business has seen … Continue reading
