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3rd Asia Environment Lecture 2015
“Greening the Built Environment: Ramping Up Global Progress”
Speaker: Ms Christine Ervin, First President & CEO, U.S. Green Building Council
This year’s lecture, the third in this series, focused on green buildings and is co-hosted by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and City Developments Ltd (CDL).
The speaker was Ms Christine Ervin, the first President and CEO of the influential US Green Building Council and former US Assistant Secretary of Energy, leading the nation’s billion dollar portfolio of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. Ms Ervin is widely recognised as a major force behind the vibrant green building market in the United States.
In her talk, Ms Ervin noted that today’s vibrant green building market is a key driver for clean and resilient economies. Ms Ervin shared her perspectives on green building trends and developments, the drivers and barriers to adoption of green building practices, how green buildings help to address environmental and social challenges that are increasingly interconnected, especially in rapidly urbanising Asia and lessons learnt from best practice projects in the United States and Asia. She also discussed how key policies could enhance efforts to green the urban landscape in Asia. The Lecture explored how real progress can be achieved by adopting a fresh perspective of the issues and seizing the opportunities which exist to address the challenges. While much has been achieved in green buildings, especially in Singapore, Ms Ervin rightly pointed out that “there is still some way to go.”
The event was attended by policy makers, urban planners, architects, engineers, persons in the building industry, environmental practitioners, Faculty members and students.
The lecture was chaired by Ambassador-at-Large Professor Tommy Koh, who also chairs the Advisory Committees for APCEL and the MEM programme. It was generously funded by City Developments Ltd (CDL), Singapore’s leading “green” developer.