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5. Operations and Maintenance - 5.1 Building Management
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5.1.2 Green Purchasing Plan
Key Points
• Instruction and guidance materials for teachers and staff to source materials,
products and equipment which have no significant negative impacts on the safety
and health of building users and on the environment;
• Encourage and promote environmentally friendly purchasing practices (e.g. use
of recycled paper or paper produced from well-managed forest, etc.);
• Reduce consumption of raw materials, energy and water in the production, use,
and disposal of the products;
• Lower pollutants and waste generation;
• Improve the health and comfort of occupants; and
• Issues to be covered:
- - durable materials, products and equipment;
- - materials with low embodied energy;
- - locally produced materials where available;
- - wood products from well-managed sources;
- - products which do not contain CFCs, HCFCs, halons;
- - salvaged materials and components;
- - rapidly renewable materials;
- - furnishings, paints, adhesives, etc. with low levels of emissions;
- - minimal packaging and/or recyclable packaging;
- - products having significant recyclable content;
- - products that are recyclable;
- - energy efficient appliances and equipment; and
- - water efficient appliances, etc.
Useful References
(1) The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Environmental
Protection Department. (2005). Green Procurement. Retrieved 1 June, 2012, from
http://www.epd.gov.hk/epd/english/how_help/green_procure/green_procure.html
(2) United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2012, 16 July). Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing. Retrieved 1 June, 2012, from
http://www.epa.gov/epp/
(3) United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2010, 13 May). Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing. International Program Web Sites. Retrieved 1 June, 2012, from
http://www.epa.gov/epp/pubs/relatedintl.htm
(4) Green Council. (2012). Hong Kong Green Label Scheme. Retrieved 1 June, 2012, from
http://www.greencouncil.org/eng/greenlabel/intro.asp
(5) International Green Purchasing Network. (2008). International Green Purchasing
Network official website. Retrieved 1 June, 2012, from
http://www.igpn.org/