Symposium on sustainable energy efficient building successully organised
   
  The symposium “Sustainable energy efficient building”, organized by the dena, German Energy Agency, in cooperation with the Shanghai Construction and Transportation Commission and ecobuild was held on September 21st, at the Intercontinental Hotel Pudong.
   
 

Photo by: Charlie Xia

   
 

Opening the event, German Federal Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee and Shanghai Vice Mayor Yang Xiong underlined the need for more sustainable approaches in urban development policies and the importance for Sino-German cooperation for energy efficient building.

   
 

German Minister Wolfang Tiefensee, Vice Mayor Yang Xiong. Photos by: Charlie Xia

   
 

This one-day dialogue features renowned experts in the field of energy efficient building: key note speakers from the German and the Shanghai governments elaborated side elaborated on policy making, incentive framework setting and evaluation system development for an effective market promotion. Academic experts followed with the technical input on energy efficient design and solutions.

   
 

Photo by: Charlie Xia

   
 

Project examples, such as the Pujiang Intelligence Valley, first project of the ecobuild campaign to be completed, or the Shanghai Xingzhuang Ecological Building, developed by Shanghai Research Institute for Building Sciences were presented as key for the demonstration of technical solutions and economic viability.

   
 

Wang Wei, SRIBS. Photo by Charlie Xia

   
 

About 160 representatives from governmental institutions, universities, design and research institutes as well as from the industry participate to the event.

   
 

Wolfgang Ornth, German Federal Ministry of Construction and Prof. Xu Jihuan, Tongji University. Photo by: Charlie Xia

   
  For more information or to receive the conference proceedings, please contact us at ecobuilding-network@sh.china.ahk.de
   
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