Green Building Award 2016

Green Building Award is an anchor event organized by the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) together with the Professional Green Building Council (PGBC) aiming to provide recognition to building-related projects with outstanding performance and contributions in sustainability and the built environment.

On 22 November 2016, Prof. Geoffrey Shen and Dr. Jingke Hong from the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) were honoured in the Green Building Awards 2016 Presentation Ceremony with a Grand Award in the Research and Planning category for their research project entitled “A multi-scale assessment of embodied energy use in China’s construction sector: a multi-regional analysis.”

The judging panel described the work done by the duo as one of the key approaches to comprehensively assess the areas of opportunities to reduce energy consumption and associated Greenhouse Gas emissions in China at the national and regional levels including specific industry sub-sectors and at building or urban development project level.

With better data coverage, this approach has the potential to provide the information needed to develop cost-effective policy decisions or interventions in China’s building sector and serve as an example for other countries in the world.