Page 198 - The Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) 香港綠色建築議會
P. 198
Private Sector Hang Seng Management College
Projects
The Hang Seng Management College is A learning campus maximises the probability circulation and connectivity both vertically
developing into one of the leading tertiary of chance encounters and encourages and horizontally throughout the campus.
education institutions in Hong Kong, with lingering, whether alone or in groups. The The intention was to develop the concept of
increasing investments in estate and learning learning campus, therefore, is dynamic and connectivity in the form of a ‘College Street’
technologies. To meet the college’s growing boundaries between formal and informal where a variety of educational and social
needs, a campus design with cost-effective activities fade. The physical campus activities could be organised as a platform
space utilisation was needed. thus plays a key role in expressing and for encounters and access to teaching and
accomplishing the Hang Seng Management amenity, civic and academic spaces.
Within recent years, campuses have seen College’s mission and objectives as the
dramatic shifts in technology, teaching leading private university in Hong Kong The Government and stakeholders’ corporate
paradigms, study habits, cross-disciplinary providing top quality business education. policies exert tremendous influence on
programmes, diversity and the evolution The campus was conceived as a place that sustainable development. Rising public
of the living/learning campus where the teaches, with a host of sustainable measures concern over the quality and sustainability
line between a student’s socialisation and installed. Through daily use of the buildings, of the built environment led to the Buildings
education merge. Students increasingly the students participate in and understand Authority in 2011 to stipulate a Sustainable
learn wherever there are opportunities for sustainable issues. With an open campus Building Design Guideline, which is a
interaction and hence the entire campus policy, sustainable concepts are also able to pre-requisite for gross floor area concessions
has to be a learning place. There is a proven reach a wider local community of users. for all green/amenity features and
connection between academic performance, non-mandatory plant rooms and services,
retention, and graduation rates, and the The expansion of campus facilities and thereby promoting sustainable building
qualities of the campus environment beyond the substantial increase in student and designs and energy-efficient features in new
the classroom. staff numbers offers the opportunity of developments. Moreover, participation in
PROJECT SCALE / USE AB D
0.22 hectare
Building 0.57 hectare 0,34 hectare 14,318m2
Site area (approx.) 8
Gross floor area (approx.) 10,222m2 6,703m2 2,500
Number of floor above grade
Approximate final population 43
Key Occupancy type(s)
2,600 720
196 HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014
Academic Staff / Student
Projects
The Hang Seng Management College is A learning campus maximises the probability circulation and connectivity both vertically
developing into one of the leading tertiary of chance encounters and encourages and horizontally throughout the campus.
education institutions in Hong Kong, with lingering, whether alone or in groups. The The intention was to develop the concept of
increasing investments in estate and learning learning campus, therefore, is dynamic and connectivity in the form of a ‘College Street’
technologies. To meet the college’s growing boundaries between formal and informal where a variety of educational and social
needs, a campus design with cost-effective activities fade. The physical campus activities could be organised as a platform
space utilisation was needed. thus plays a key role in expressing and for encounters and access to teaching and
accomplishing the Hang Seng Management amenity, civic and academic spaces.
Within recent years, campuses have seen College’s mission and objectives as the
dramatic shifts in technology, teaching leading private university in Hong Kong The Government and stakeholders’ corporate
paradigms, study habits, cross-disciplinary providing top quality business education. policies exert tremendous influence on
programmes, diversity and the evolution The campus was conceived as a place that sustainable development. Rising public
of the living/learning campus where the teaches, with a host of sustainable measures concern over the quality and sustainability
line between a student’s socialisation and installed. Through daily use of the buildings, of the built environment led to the Buildings
education merge. Students increasingly the students participate in and understand Authority in 2011 to stipulate a Sustainable
learn wherever there are opportunities for sustainable issues. With an open campus Building Design Guideline, which is a
interaction and hence the entire campus policy, sustainable concepts are also able to pre-requisite for gross floor area concessions
has to be a learning place. There is a proven reach a wider local community of users. for all green/amenity features and
connection between academic performance, non-mandatory plant rooms and services,
retention, and graduation rates, and the The expansion of campus facilities and thereby promoting sustainable building
qualities of the campus environment beyond the substantial increase in student and designs and energy-efficient features in new
the classroom. staff numbers offers the opportunity of developments. Moreover, participation in
PROJECT SCALE / USE AB D
0.22 hectare
Building 0.57 hectare 0,34 hectare 14,318m2
Site area (approx.) 8
Gross floor area (approx.) 10,222m2 6,703m2 2,500
Number of floor above grade
Approximate final population 43
Key Occupancy type(s)
2,600 720
196 HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014
Academic Staff / Student
