Past Event
2021-01-29
【Green Recovery Webinar】Green Building, Move Forward!
In Hong Kong, up to 70% of carbon emission comes from power generation. Buildings and infrastructures account for 90% of the city’s energy consumption. To reduce carbon emissions, the development of green building is one of the ways out. It plays an important part in the green recovery solution. Are you familiar with the scope of green building? What would be its future trends? Mr Ip Chung-Man, green architect and urban designer will shared with us on these topics.
Back in 2010, our government has launched the "BEAM Plus" certification, which provides a neutral assessment to measure the sustainable functions of buildings, but its standards are quite loose. Ir Albert Lai, Co-founder and Advisor of CarbonCare Innolab, gave his opinons on how the system could be improved, and also share the possibilities and challenges of gren buildings. Mr Chong Chan-Yau, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of CarbonCare Innolab commented as a respondent to their sharing. He concluded that green recovery is a big challenge for the world, and hoped that it could be part of our daily life.
You are welcome to watch the recording here:
You are welcome to download the transcript of the webinar (Chinese version only) HERE.
Date: 29 January 2021 (Friday)
Host: Mr Ringo Mak (Programme Advisor of CarbonCare InnoLab)
Speakers:
Ir Albert Lai (Co-founder and Advisor of CarbonCare InnoLab)
Mr Tony Ip (founder of Tony Ip Green Architects Ltd “TiP”)
Respondent: Mr Chong Chan Yau (Co-founder and CEO mof CarbonCare InnoLab)
Speakers:
Ir Albert Lai (Co-founder and Advisor of CarbonCare InnoLab)
Ir Albert Lai is the Co-founder and Advisor of CarbonCare InnoLab and CEO of Carbon Care Asia. He is a director and former chairman of the Conservancy Association, founding chairman of The Professional Commons, former Stakeholder Council member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and former member of the Commission on Strategic Development of the HKSAR Government.
Albert has served for many years as a member of the Judging Panel for ACCA (Hong Kong) Sustainability Report Award, and led numerous local initiatives in the field of CSR and sustainability, including the leadership of the Hong Kong NGO delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002, and the United Nations Climate Change Conferences in Bali (2007) and Copenhagen (2009).
Mr Tony Ip (Founder of Tony Ip Green Architects Ltd “TiP”)
Tony Ip, Founder of Tony Ip Green Architect Ltd “TiP”, is a community-centric, sustainable design architect and urban designer based in Hong Kong. His passion and contributions to green architecture and creative industry were highly recognized by receiving HKIA Young Architect Award 2010, EcoStar Award 2014, Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award 2016 and Australia China Alumni Award for Arts & Creative Industry 2018. Tony has demonstrated a flair for multi-disciplinary practices and academic studies in the building profession. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Civil & Structural Engineering, Master of Science in Geotechnical Engineering, Master of Architecture & Master of Urban Design from the University of Hong Kong, Bachelor of Built Environment on Architectural Studies from the Queensland University of Technology and Master of Studies on Interdisciplinary Design for Built Environment from the University of Cambridge.
About Green Recovery Webinar:
CarbonCare InnoLab launched the “Jockey Club Community Sustainability Fund- Green Recovery for Community” Programme, with a view to promote climate action in Hong Kong, to build back our society in a sustainable way under the attack of pandemic. We wish to build a sustainable community, so that we could move on in a better way.
In our Green Recovery Webinars, we would invite guests from different fields to share green recovery opportunities and threats in the Covid-19 "New Normal".