Cleaner Greener China

Stefano Negri, Sr. Expert, McKinsey
Gary Nieman, Owens Corning

Stefano Negri

-more than 350 million new urban residents by 2025
- more than 200 cities with 1 million inhabitant
- more than 50,000 new skyscrapers (2 Chicago every year)
- urban energy demand will more than double
- nearly 1 billion urban people

Pressure points:
- Land Development (urban sprawl, congestion, redundant infrastructure)
- Resources (water and energy, pollution)
- Economics (financial burden)
- Talent/ people

The answer is urban productivity:
-a model of growth that shifts focus from output to input
- how to do more than less

land
- dense cities is not enough, it needs to be compact.
- mixed use developments

resources
- incentivize energy and water efficient industrial equipment
establish/ enforce energy saving building codes
- increase control and emission standards

Economics
introduce productivity based performance systems on public service provision
increased transparency on city budgets/ spending

Talent
- partner with local companies to increase internship/ team work

Rob Watson - Founder & Chairman LEED Steering Committee

The laws of natural environment dictate (like chemistry) that if we violate the laws, death will be the result

“the earth has survived far worse insults than humans”… meteors, ice age, etc

The law of the earth is simple. you fit in or you get kicked out.

Energy demand is choice, not fate
- when you combine market mechanisms with regulatory, the imapct is much greater

Prerequisite for transformation
- minimum codes & standards
- design and construction enterprise
- materials and equipment

18th century thinking and 18th century solutions and 18th century results

Raqul Bunschoten
building and city infrastructure accounts for more than 40% of materials

Create urban incubators
- showcases for how things can be done
- highlight materials, talents, means for going forward

Creating tie between Xiamen and Taiwan to develop cross-straight city planning

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