The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Urbanisation Series event on Sustainable Urbanisation and Green Building.
Green building makes up a small proportion of China’s construction industry, but increasing environmental awareness and central government policies that set ambitious targets to reduce China’s overall energy use may make green building practices more widespread in the coming years.
Our speakers from Bureau Veritas, ISA and Norton Rose Fulbright will cover extensively the topic of green building in China giving an overview about where does China stand on terms of the implementation of Sustainable Urbanisation on large scale as well as on the technical and legal aspects of sustainable urbanisation in China.
Agenda
15:00 – 15:30 Registration
15:30 – 15:35 Welcome Remarks, Mr. Mats Harborn, Vice-President European Chamber
15:35 – 15:40 Introduction by Moderator, Mr. Massimo Bagnasco, State Representative of the Executive Committee
15:40 – 16:05 “Sustainable Urbanisation implementation on large scale in China”, Samy Schneider, ISA Internationales Stadtbauteiler China
16:05 – 16:30 “Technical aspects of sustainable urbanisation: types of sustainable certifications and comparison between LEED and GBL by Mr. Larry Wang, Green Building and Sustainability Senior Project Manager Bureau Veritas China
16:30 – 16:55 “Regulatory aspects of sustainable urbanisation”, by Barbara Li, Partner Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
16:55 - 17:25 Moderated Q&A Session
17:25 - 17:30 Closing Remarks by moderator
Event Terms and Conditions
In case you registered but cannot attend, please remember to cancel your reservation 24 hours in advance, otherwise a no-show fee will be applied and you will be invoiced for the event.
Please be kindly reminded that we do not issue an invoice (fapiao) for event price up to 250 RMB. For event price up to this amount you will receive an official receipt (shouju) only.
Speakers
Samy Schneider, Project Leader ISA Internationales Stadtbauteiler China
Samy has studied spatial and environmental planning at Technical University Kaiserslautern in the 90’s and city planning at Hafen City University Hamburg. Before and during his studies he gained international experiences concerning ecological and city planning aspects through international study- and work-trips, he won various prices like for example in 2007 for his documentary “pimp my city” for the International Building Exhibition Hamburg, he worked for several years in various architecture and city planning offices in Germany, and since 5 years he works in Beijing for ISA. There he is responsible for big scale city planning projects all over China, especially for applied research and spatial strategy development. In his research work he focuses on topics like sustainability and economic development strategies. Currently he is working for a Masterplan Development for the city Ulgii in Mongolia.
Larry Wang, Green Building and Sustainability Senior Project Manager, Bureau Veritas China
Larry has studied HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) Engineering at Tsinghua University in the 80s, after which he worked first in China for 8 years, then in Canada for 13 years, before returning to China in 2010. He is auditor for both LEED (American Green Building Standard) and GBL (Chinese Green Building Standard). He is a utmost expert on the topic of the up and coming Chinese Green Building certification, which so far has been less popular than LEED, but with the newest revisions of the system and the fact that it still is subsidized by the government, it is quickly gaining a stronger foothold in the Chinese Real Estate market.
Ms. Barbara Li Partner, Norton Rose
Barbara Li is a corporate and major projects lawyer based in the Beijing office of Norton Rose LLP. Her practice focuses on China-related corporate and commercial matters, mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border counselling, both on inbound and outbound sides. She has counselled international and PRC enterprises on major projects in the industry focus on energy, infrastructure, and automotive. She also advises on projects in other sectors including food and beverage, telecom and IT, real estate, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. Barbara has abundant experience in advising on regulatory issues. Barbara has so far worked in leading International firms in Beijing and London for more than 14 years. Prior to moving to private practice, she worked as an in-house legal counsel at Ericsson (China) Company Limited and Beijing Jeep Co., Ltd. respectively.