Low-carbon model town set to promote eco-friendly living

 

Eight out of 120 high-rise environmentally friendly buildings are expected to be completed by mid-2015 in the Yujiapu Financial District, as part of an APEC Low-Carbon Model Town located away from the built-up city area.

 

Each square meter of the buildings, which are located in a tulip-shaped green enclave with a river, is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 kg a year, said Mu Lingling, CEO assistant of the Tianjin Innovative Finance Investment Co Ltd. There are also plans for similar effects for all of the new construction projects in the district by 2024.

 

The Yujiapu Financial District, located in the northern Chinese coastal city of Tianjin, is a 3.86-square-kilometer demonstration area approved by the APEC leaders in 2010 for developing the practices needed to achieve low-emissions urban communities.

 

A series of measures are being carried out to promote eco-construction through environmental planning, green architectural design as well as the optimization of construction techniques.

 

Energy consumption can be effectively reduced by constructing green buildings, said Mu, whose company is in charge of the district's overall planning, low-carbon facility construction and business promotion with the approval of the Tianjin government.

 

"The green building is a technology-intensive sector. At the very beginning of the design process, our architectural engineers already included the low-emission concept in their drafts, following international guidelines such as the American LEED," said Yang Haisong, assistant manager of the company.

 

Apart from utilizing basic eco-facilities such as a solar-powered waste disposal and recycling system, Yang said, the district also implements energy-efficient buildings through integrated land use planning coupled with various energy-saving technologies.

 

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