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Citius, Altius, Fortius: China to pursue world’s tallest green building

October 9, 2009

Posted by Kevin Mo in Green Enterprise , Greening China , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
china, climatechange, construction, copenhagencountdown, greenbudingstandard, greenbuilding, greenbuildings, greeningchina, LEED, shanghai, smartcities, smartgrowth, sustainablebuilding, sustainabledevelopment, tallestgreenbuilding, Threestargreenlabel

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have become history, but the Olympic spirit of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" appears to have been instilled into China's building industry. The 2009 Green Building and Energy Efficiency International Conference hosted by McGraw-Hill Construction in Shanghai...continued

In Green, We Build--China to Build 10,000 Green Hotels in Four Years

June 19, 2009

Posted by Kevin Mo in Greening China

Tags:
china, energyefficiency, environmentimpactassesment, greenbuilding, greenbuildingstandard, greenhotel, international

When you talk about China, you have to think big, really big. China's Ministry of Commerce just announced that China will try to build 10,000 green hotels by 2012. How big is this goal? China opened less than 400 new...continued

Measuring Temperature--LEED in China

June 5, 2009

Posted by Kevin Mo in Green Enterprise , Greening China

Tags:
china, construction, greenbuilding, LEED

Nine years ago, I participated in a series of workshops organized by NRDC and Carnegie Mellon on designing China's first green building (now called the Agenda 21 building). At that time, the term green building was merely known to China...continued