Sasaki Associates recently unveiled some preliminary details regarding an ambitious mixed-use development in Malaysia, that's expected to run to a budget of tens of billions of dollars. Dubbed Forest City, the multi-phase project is billed as a potential new cultural and economic hub for the region. Spanning over 1,386 hectares (3,424 acres) and expected to […]
White Roofs is a simple idea that offers one of the fastest and lowest cost ways of helping reduce global warming by mimicking how the polar icecaps reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet, and because it lowers the temperature of roofs in the summer sun, buildings with air conditioning typically use less […]
Coverage rate of population with access to tap water:98.88%（2014） Per capita area of paved roads:32.2 square meters per capita（2013, Statistics done by Ministry of Transportation and Communications and Civil Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government） Per capita area of public green space:4.27 square meters per capita（2012, Statistics done by Ministry of Transportation and Communications and […]
ECCJ (Energy Conservation Center, Japan) is the Energy Efficiency Facilitating Hub for the United Nations’ SE4All (Sustainable Energy for All) initiative. Initiatives such as “smart community” demonstration projects are helping to realize energy conservation at the city level. Furthermore, in developing countries, particularly within Asia, Japan has played an active role in integrating the public […]
Taipei is a very cool city. It takes only thirty-minute- drive to the mountain and an hour-drive to the Pacific coast. Taipei was a piece of farmland. After hundred years of development, nowadays, it is a city with population of 2 million and full of tall buildings. Today, we want to bring agriculture back to […]
This is an application to the award program: APEC Energy Working Group, the overseeing body of the Energy Smart Community Initiative and other APEC member projects within the sector. This Application regards centralized communal offices cluster that is, smart buildings implementation of Community Center provided with Smart Renewable Energy Micro-grids in a rural setting based […]
Vision: In order to demonstrate the ability to save electricity, expand the use of green energy, spontaneous personal supply and use of green energy, environmental education, and integrating smart city and use of green energy in citizen's daily life and in purpose of setting Innovative Urban Design Standard in public construction and low energy buildings, […]
Chaophraya Yommarat Hospital is a 602-bed public general hospital (a medical center for the upper central region of Thailand). More than 200,000 people (excluding 1,525 hospital staff) visit this hospital annually. Since 1942, the Ministry of Public Health, which is the owner, has been providing medical and public health services within the hospital. Later, the […]
I.Premise Following the change of social structure and increasing dual-income family, the ratio of working married women has reached 48.38% according to the statistics of Budget and Accounting Department, Executive Yuan in 2005. People today are busy in daily life and have changed living pattern from three generations living under the same roof in the […]
Introduction video of the Energy Education Treasure Chest Project Summary of the Energy Education Treasure Chest Project I.The inspiration of a shocking fact The lingering smelly air at the school front gate triggered some of our students to count the amount of motor vehicles passing by school at the rush hour. The students conducted the […]
