Cleaner Greener China

David Hathaway, ICF - Opportunity in Green Operations

Let’s not forget about existing buildings

buildings are a practical target for reductions.. at cost effective matters

- challenges
addition of 2 billion suare meters
high growth likely
most policy on new build/ rather than on building operations
little focus on supporting exemplary performance

- every building (green or not) is an operating building once it is up… it has HVAC, electricity, etc.. so green, or not, every building can operate efficiently or poorly

Key questions:
- how to generate large scale action?
- what metric to use?
- What are the solutions?

Warren Smith - Venetian Macau

Venetian has 20,000 rooms planned for property in Macau
- current property is 2900 rooms - 2.3 billion

Areas of focus
- major water/ energy savings initiatives
- temp set point policy/ energy saving check lists
- water audit once a month
- time scheduling escalators
- energy audits
- time scheduling equipment for meeting, theatre, corridors
- ongoing chiller plant optimization
- lighting audit and optimization
- temperature control improvements for casino and meeting spaces

currently taking lessons from Venetian to retrofit Sands. Sands was opened in 2006 with little thought to energy efficiency…. but it paid itself back in 9 months

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