10th Anniversary Booklet - The Professional Green Building Council

PGBC Past ChairmenMr. WONG Kam Sing, JPPGBC Chairman [2009-10]Professional Alliance + Global Perspective +Building Locally + Caring for the MainlandWhat does PGBC mean to me? Architects, engineers, landscape architects, surveyors andtown planners come together under the banner of green building. This professional alliance isunique in the world. With a common vision and one heart, the synergy among professionalsis remarkable. 1+1+1+1+1 is greater than 5. In the past, professional institutes often workedon this common challenge individually. As a breakthrough, the establishment of PGBC hasserved a historic role in the transformation of green building market through professionalcollaboration. Riding on the synergistic spirit, PGBC further co-founds the Hong Kong GreenBuilding Council (HKGBC) with 3 other organizations, which charts another milestone in thegreen building movement.Among various accomplishments in the past decade, PGBC has embarked on a series ofnotable market transformation initiatives, from assessment, advocacy, to award. An exemplaryexample is the introduction of green building award, which is the first-of-its-kind in the regionand has been increasingly recognized at local, regional and global levels since 2006.1PGBC has placed substantial professional input on the local issues, from the developmentof building environmental assessment method to the regulation associated with urbanclimate and urban greenery in the hyper-dense context of Hong Kong. On the other hand,PGBC has led the Hong Kong delegations to participate in various international and regionalconferences on sustainable building, including the World Conference SB05 Tokyo and SB08Melbourne. PGBC also hosted the Regional Conference SB07 in Hong Kong. All these regionaland international exchanges have been keeping Hong Kong updated with the state-of-the-artknowledge on green building.Last but not least, PGBC cares not only cities but also Chinese villages. PGBC has been one ofthe pioneering supporters to the charity initiative “A Bridge Too Far” since 2004. The initiativehas evolved to become the Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation in Hong Kong,which helps build bridges in an environmentally sustainable way for the developing rural regionof Mainland China. In those poverty-stricken and disadvantaged remote areas, professionalhelp and care from the whole of society are urgently in need.30Overall, PGBC cares about the environment locally, regionally and globally. What PGBCmembers have always impressed me most throughout the years is their one-heart vision onsustainable building.