Environment experts
call for more green buildings
HCM CITY (VNS) - Green buildings are still rare in
Environmental and
construction experts told a conference on energy-efficient construction held
yesterday by the Viet Nam Green Building Council and the HCM City Institute
for Development Studies that green construction is still restricted to
slogans.
Buildings use a
lot of energy and this put huge pressure on both the environment and house
owners, especially in the last decade.
With fuel bills
headed in only one direction in the foreseeable future and given the economic
situation,
Nguyen Minh Thong,
CEO of the Viet Nam Green Building Council (VGBC), said some
environment-friendly buildings may have been built in recent years but
knowledge about them remains low.
Most of these
buildings were the outcome of market demand rather than any government
policy, he said.
People think
building green is much more expensive than conventional, he said, adding,
"It is funny how people in the construction industry firmly believe that
green buildings must be very expensive."
Melissa
Merryweather, the VGBC's southern regional coordinator, and director of Green
Consult –
Information source
The Viet Nam Green
Building Council and Fairventures Worldwide took a significant step forward
in their efforts to promote a more sustainable and adaptive environment with
the launch on Monday of E4G.org, a green database for buildings and urban
planning in Viet Nam and the Asia Pacific.
It is meant to
foster energy efficient buildings and practices through open
knowledge-sharing, hands-on experience, case studies, insights into the
benefits of green buildings, and networking.
E4G offers
in-depth knowledge and expertise in green buildings and energy efficiency for
free.
Fairventures
Worldwide is a German non-profit and consulting organisation working in
international development.
The project is
sponsored by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, an
international non-profit organisation that aims to scale up clean energy
solutions in developing countries. - VNS
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Thứ Tư, 18 tháng 12, 2013
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