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educational and publicity activities on IAQ, LIGHTING AND VENTILATION
including advertisements and promotions REQUIREMENTS –
in the mass media, school visits and IAQ PERFORMANCE-BASED APPROACH
seminars. EPD also holds an annual IAQ
Award Ceremony to give commendation to The Building (Planning) Regulations set
certificate holders who have made concerted out the prescriptive requirements on
efforts to maintain good IAQ. window design for the provision of natural
The Government issued a comprehensive lighting and ventilation for habitable
target-based green performance framework rooms, offices and kitchens. To facilitate
in 2009 for new and existing government environmentally friendly buildings and design
buildings. Two IAQ requirements are flexibility, the Buildings Department used a
incorporated in the framework: (a) all new consultancy study in 2003 to establish a set
government buildings should aim to achieve of performance-based standards and
‘Excellent Class’ of the IAQ Objectives; corresponding prescriptive requirements to
and (b) all existing government buildings achieve the equivalent performance of the
with a construction floor area of more than statutory provisions without compromising
10,000 m2 should achieve the ‘Good Class’ of the health of occupants or the indoor
the IAQ Objectives wherever possible. environment for private buildings in Hong
Kong. In this connection, the Buildings
Department has issued a Practice Note
to promulgate these performance-based
approaches for the industry’s reference.
HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014 37
including advertisements and promotions REQUIREMENTS –
in the mass media, school visits and IAQ PERFORMANCE-BASED APPROACH
seminars. EPD also holds an annual IAQ
Award Ceremony to give commendation to The Building (Planning) Regulations set
certificate holders who have made concerted out the prescriptive requirements on
efforts to maintain good IAQ. window design for the provision of natural
The Government issued a comprehensive lighting and ventilation for habitable
target-based green performance framework rooms, offices and kitchens. To facilitate
in 2009 for new and existing government environmentally friendly buildings and design
buildings. Two IAQ requirements are flexibility, the Buildings Department used a
incorporated in the framework: (a) all new consultancy study in 2003 to establish a set
government buildings should aim to achieve of performance-based standards and
‘Excellent Class’ of the IAQ Objectives; corresponding prescriptive requirements to
and (b) all existing government buildings achieve the equivalent performance of the
with a construction floor area of more than statutory provisions without compromising
10,000 m2 should achieve the ‘Good Class’ of the health of occupants or the indoor
the IAQ Objectives wherever possible. environment for private buildings in Hong
Kong. In this connection, the Buildings
Department has issued a Practice Note
to promulgate these performance-based
approaches for the industry’s reference.
HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014 37
