Prof. Shengwei WANG, Director of RISE has been awarded the “ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter Technology Award 2025” in the category of “Commercial Buildings (Existing)”

Prof. Shengwei Wang, Director of Research Institute for Smart Energy, Chair Professor of Building Energy and Automation, and Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Smart Buildings, has been awarded the “ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter Technology Award 2025” in the category of “Commercial Buildings (Existing)”.

Prof. Wang and his team have been collaborating with the International Commerce Centre (ICC) management team to implement the life cycle retro-commissioning (LC-RCx) technologies aiming at optimizing the large and complex air-conditioning systems. This initiative involves analyzing the building's energy consumption and developing strategies to enhance energy performance. As a result, ICC has achieved significant improvements in energy efficiency, realizing approximately 39% energy savings from July 2023 to June 2024 compared to the energy use in 2012.

ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international society of more than 50,000 heating, refrigerating and air conditioning professionals from over 132 nations, dedicated to serving humanity and promoting a sustainable world. The ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter was founded in 1984 and is one of the largest Chapters in ASHRAE.