TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable cities• Facilitates communication between all stakeholders and hence improves clients’satisfaction.In addition to POE exercises, we also adopt the Hong Kong BuildingEnvironmental Assessment Method (HK-BEAM), a comprehensive environmentalassessment of building, and the Indoor Air Quality Certification Scheme forOffices and Public Places administered by the Environmental ProtectionDepartment of the HKSARG, to review the design, construction and managementof a building. Such evaluation can act as a benchmarking tool for theenvironmental performance of our buildings.3. DEVELOPMENT OF POE IN ARCHSD3.1 POE in Hong KongDespite the fact that there are many potential benefits associated with theimplementation of POE to all stakeholders [3] and POE has been put in use foryears in many places, it is still not commonly adopted in Hong Kong. The majorperceived hurdle is that POE requires extra resources and time.3.2 Initiation of POE in ArchSDIn view of the increasing technical complexity on building and BS systems designand growing public concerns on environmental issues, ArchSD considers there is aneed to implement POE for government buildings, especially for thosecomplicated ones in order to monitor the performance of such buildings. Unlikeprivate commercial buildings with usually multi-tenants, which make the POEexercise more difficult, ArchSD has more options to select buildings with singleclient department to carry out the exercise. As a start, it is more effective andefficient to collaborate with single client department to consolidate client’srequirements and to convey POE teams’ suggestions. It is also important to ensurethe exercise be performed smoothly without causing inconvenience to the client.Several projects with complex nature were selected as pilot in 2005. It was523