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Research and Planning Studies Category (Grand Award)
Beijing Changxing Eco-city
北 京 長 興 生 態 城
Completion Date of Study 2007 Client/ Developer Beijing Wannian Flowercity Real Estate Development
Company Limited
Town Planner
Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Limited (Applicant)
The Changxing Eco-city is located in Fengtai’s Hexi District, within the
south-western region of Beijing. Arup’s East Asia Planning team based in
Hong Kong and Shanghai office was directly commissioned by a leading
private sector real estate company to review the existing government
statutory master plan and produce a sustainable eco-city master plan
for the 600 hectare site. Utilizing the multi-disciplinary skills of Arup on
sustainable development, the team led a consortium of consultants to
develop a plan and implementation strategy for one of the first private
sector led eco-city projects in China.
With sustainable development on the center stage, the vision of the
project is to:
• Plan and implement an urban district driven by sustainable
development principles, based on an integrated urbanism and
resource management planning framework; and
• Balance the environmental, social, and economic needs of the project
to achieve “energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, economic
growth and social harmony”.
The project covered thorough interaction with client, local residents and
stakeholders in establishing the sustainable development framework,
objectives and indicators, as well as various technical, master planning
and implementation strategies resulting in the preferred master plan.
A variety of sustainability tools were used to assist the project team
in coming to the preferred planning and design solutions, including
Integrated Resource Management (IRM) Model, Micro-climate Modeling,
Arup’s Sustainable project Appraisal Routine (SPeAR TM ), Eco-footprint
and intensive use of GIS.
After in-depth analysis on site conditions, the SPeAR TM was used
to define sustainability objectives and indicators. The SPeAR TM is a
comprehensive sustainable decision making tool and is also one of
the very first of this kind available at present in the region to facilitate
stakeholders in debating and deciding on the relative importance of
various sustainable development objectives. The project developed
a total of nineteen quantitative sustainable indicators to compare the
proposed eco-city master plan with conventional city development
(Business-as-Usual). The results demonstrated that the eco-city proposal
has positive contribution to sustainability, quality of life and health, and
planning and design of built environment. This approach is different
from conventional planning practice with focus on physical land use
planning only.
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