CASE STUDY FACT SHEET
CASE STUDY FACT SHEET
Swire Properties Limited
• Offer a wide range of recreational
and cultural events for the local
community
• Organise or sponsor more than 70
arts and cultural events, educational
and environmental activities and
volunteer initiatives
Awards:
• Taikoo Place and Cityplaza: Grand
Award under the “Existing Building”
category of the Green Building
Award 2014
• Swire Properties Limited: Grand
Award under the “Green Building
Leadership” category of Green
Building Award 2016
Energy Efficiency:
• Established extensive data
management system
• Target to reduce 64m kWh in Swire’s
2020 Energy Reduction Pledge
Waste Management:
• Development of a robust waste
management framework with data
being collected for over 20 types of
waste at present
Green Management:
• Implemented various stakeholder
programmes to engage the
collaboration of staff, partners and
the community
• Over 1,300 of the Company’s
volunteers, the Community
Ambassadors, devoted more than
5,500 hours volunteering across a
wide range of different programmes
Figure 5.11 Swire Properties Limited Office
(Source: Swire Properties Limited)
Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Phase 3
Selected Green Features:
• Hybrid/natural ventilation to lobbies
and R&D offices
• Daylight/occupancy sensors, daylight
factors 7%
• High efficiency LED lighting
• High performance low-E double
glazing
• CO2 demand controlled ventilation
• Heat recovery and air-side free
cooling
• High efficiency district cooling
system (DCS)
• Absorption chiller via solar hot water
heating
• Phase change material (PCM)
thermal storage
• Tenant sub-meters and data sharing
(green lease)
• “Pay-per-use” direct billing for air
conditioning
• EV charging and cycling facilities
• Roof-mounted PV panels
• Hybrid solar / wind power street
lighting
• 1,100m
3
rainwater collection &
recycling
• Food waste collection & recycling
• Integrated chilled beams (central
facilities management office)
• Centralised Automatic Refuse
Collection System
• “Green Pad” organic farming and
“Green Trail”
Awards:
• BEAM Plus Platinum Ratings
(including the highest scoring project
as at Oct 2015)
• LEED Platinum v2009 Core and Shell
(Building 12W, 2014)
• Best Asian Pacific Smart City
initiative (IDC, 2015)
• Sustainability Achievement of the
Year 2015 (RICS-HK)
• Hong Kong Green Building Award
2014 (Grand Award– Completed
New Building)
• Best Project Team of the Year 2013
Figure 5.12 Hong Kong Science and
Technology Park
(Source: Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks
Corporation)
China Resources Building
limited coverage
• Semi-unitised curtain wall system
with pressure equalised system and
drain gutter for easy maintenance
and higher flexibility in construction
sequence
Construction Waste Reduction:
• Use of existing structure instead of
rebuilding
• Reduction of waste: 97% of the
existing envelope was retained
• Reduction of carbon emissions
• Recycling and reuse of construction
waste
Construction Noise and Pollution
Control:
• Use of tower working platform
• Existing windows were maintained
during installation of new façade to
reduce air and noise pollution in the
indoor environment
• Use of low noise demolition
methods
• Construction works were divided
into different phases
Consideration of impact on the
neighbourhood:
• Extended public passage in a
weather-controlled environment
• More access for disabled
• Improved elevator zoning
• Better planning of the building fringe
Green Operation and Management:
• Incentive programmes for tenants,
e.g. early bird award to avoid
high traffic time and allow longer
construction work time
• Arrangements for business centre
in case of noise
disturbance
Tenants Involvement:
• Seminars to explain
construction
methods and
sequence of works
and to gather
opinions from tenant
• Meetings with
neighbourhood
and DLO for
understanding
Natural Daylight:
• Use of glass partition wall to allow
sunlight in
Artificial Lighting:
• Integration of photo sensors to
reduce electricity consumption
• Replacement of T8 to T5 in public
areas
Energy Efficiency:
• Installation of highly efficient Air
Handling Units (AHUs)
• Utilisation of CO
2
demand control
ventilation with CO
2
sensors (also for
performance review)
• Maintain sea water cooling
• Upgrade of lifts and escalators to
reduce energy consumption
Ventilation:
• Improvement of carpark ventilation
by introducing jet fan system
• Improvement of natural ventilation
Use of Green Building Materials:
• Use of low-e glass
• Use of long life cycle LED with
Figure 5.13
China Resources
Building
(Source: China
Resources Property
Limited)
Wholesale Conversion of
Industrial Building @ Wong Chuk
Hang into GENESIS
Figure 5.14 The Genesis
(Source: Barrie Ho Architecture Interiors Ltd)
Under an initiative of the Hong Kong
Development Bureau to facilitate
wholesale conversion of industrial
buildings, the project aims to revitalise
an abandoned industrial building into
a contemporary artists’ vertical village
in Hong Kong Island South. Consisting
of 22 floors, the project was planned
to be completed by June 2014,
marking a new chapter in adaptive re-
use of architecture in Hong Kong.
With support from the Hong Kong
Arts Development Council, the 12th
Floor of the GENESIS is dedicated to
offering low rent studios to artists
and designers to promote the
development of local art and culture.
(RICS-HK)
• Hong Kong Green Building Award
2012 (Grand Award– Building Project
under Design)
• Hong Kong Green Building Award
2010 (Finalist – Sustainability Master
Planning)
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