NCKU’s Green Magic School awarded world’s greenest building
Tainan, Taiwan, Mar. 22, 2013
The Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, was recently selected as one of the World’s Greenest Green Buildings in year 2013 by Jerry Yudelson, one of the leading green building experts in America.
In The World’s Greenest Buildings - Promise Versus Performance in Sustainable Design written by Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer and published Jan. 7 by Routledge, there are 15 greenest buildings selected from the U.S.A., the European and the Asia-Pacific region respectively (45 buildings in total) as the global benchmark for green buildings.
Among the selected green buildings in the Asia-Pacific region, there were 5 from Japan, 5 from Australia, 2 from Singapore, 1 from Mainland China, as well as Taiwan’s only candidate, the Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center.
Also known as Magic School of Green Technology, with an alias of “Green Magic School,” the center is the first energy-saving and zero-carbon building in Taiwan. It has won several awards in recent years as it attained the Taiwan Ecology, Energy, Waste Reduction and Health (EEWH) Diamond certification and also achieved the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in 2011.
The green building must fulfill a set of strict criteria: First, the air-conditioned floor area of the building must be 4500 m2 and above; Second, the building must be for non-residential use; Third; the building must obtain the highest-rated certification of the internationally-recognized Green Building Label; Fourth, proof of energy-consumption monitoring data for a year and above must be available for the building; Fifth, the construction of the building must be completed after year 2003.
Besides, the green building has to be verified by the editorial board through interviews as well as demonstrate substantial significance of the education of energy conservation.
It is remarkable that at the NCKU’s Green Magic School, every meter squared of floor area is originally estimated to achieve an energy use intensity of 43.5 kWh. However, throughout 2011, the building has only achieved an energy use intensity of 40.3 kWh.
Meanwhile, the average energy use intensity per meter squared floor area of green buildings in the U.S.A., the European and the Asia-Pacific region were recorded as 156 kWh, 135 kWh and 158 kWh respectively.
These figures were far greater than that achieved by the NCKU’s Green Magic School, showing that the NCKU green building is the most energy conserving among the 45 greenest green buildings in the world. In other words, it can also be known as the “first green building” among the World’s Greenest Buildings.
It is noteworthy that the NCKU Department of Architecture Professor Dr. Hsien-Te Lin, the core figure of the NCKU’s Green Magic School, whose book entitled The Story of the Magic School of Green Technology has been translated into Japanese and published in Tokyo, Japan.
In conjunction with the release of this book, the Japan Building Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Association (JABMEE) has specially organized the “World Zero Energy Building Survey Forum”, and Dr. Lin was invited, Feb. 22, to give a keynote speech, on NCKU’s the Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center.
During the forum, the NCKU’s Green Magic School was unanimously recognized as one of the world’s few “zero energy buildings”, with the most academic input and the most beautiful among them.
Donated by Delta Electronics Inc. chairman Bruce Cheng and constructed based on Taiwan’s local technology, the NCKU’s Green Magic School, which is also recognized as the green miracle of Taiwan, has become a famous tourist attraction in Southern Taiwan.
Since it was officially opened two years ago, the building has welcomed many visitors, including scholars and government officials, to observe and learn from its success. Other visitors also consisted of elementary and secondary school students from different cities around Taiwan as part of their extra-curricular activities.
The number of visitors has exceeded thirty thousand people per annum, according to statistics, showing great contribution of the Green Magic School to Taiwan’s environmental education.
Now that this building has been awarded the “World’s Greenest Building”, this achievement has highlighted Taiwan’s renowned quality of green buildings, enabling the people of Taiwan to understand the soft power of NCKU.
The Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, was recently selected as one of the World’s Greenest Green Buildings in year 2013 by Jerry Yudelson, one of the leading green building experts in America.
In The World’s Greenest Buildings - Promise Versus Performance in Sustainable Design written by Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer and published Jan. 7 by Routledge, there are 15 greenest buildings selected from the U.S.A., the European and the Asia-Pacific region respectively (45 buildings in total) as the global benchmark for green buildings.
Among the selected green buildings in the Asia-Pacific region, there were 5 from Japan, 5 from Australia, 2 from Singapore, 1 from Mainland China, as well as Taiwan’s only candidate, the Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center.
Also known as Magic School of Green Technology, with an alias of “Green Magic School,” the center is the first energy-saving and zero-carbon building in Taiwan. It has won several awards in recent years as it attained the Taiwan Ecology, Energy, Waste Reduction and Health (EEWH) Diamond certification and also achieved the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in 2011.
The green building must fulfill a set of strict criteria: First, the air-conditioned floor area of the building must be 4500 m2 and above; Second, the building must be for non-residential use; Third; the building must obtain the highest-rated certification of the internationally-recognized Green Building Label; Fourth, proof of energy-consumption monitoring data for a year and above must be available for the building; Fifth, the construction of the building must be completed after year 2003.
Besides, the green building has to be verified by the editorial board through interviews as well as demonstrate substantial significance of the education of energy conservation.
It is remarkable that at the NCKU’s Green Magic School, every meter squared of floor area is originally estimated to achieve an energy use intensity of 43.5 kWh. However, throughout 2011, the building has only achieved an energy use intensity of 40.3 kWh.
Meanwhile, the average energy use intensity per meter squared floor area of green buildings in the U.S.A., the European and the Asia-Pacific region were recorded as 156 kWh, 135 kWh and 158 kWh respectively.
These figures were far greater than that achieved by the NCKU’s Green Magic School, showing that the NCKU green building is the most energy conserving among the 45 greenest green buildings in the world. In other words, it can also be known as the “first green building” among the World’s Greenest Buildings.
It is noteworthy that the NCKU Department of Architecture Professor Dr. Hsien-Te Lin, the core figure of the NCKU’s Green Magic School, whose book entitled The Story of the Magic School of Green Technology has been translated into Japanese and published in Tokyo, Japan.
In conjunction with the release of this book, the Japan Building Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Association (JABMEE) has specially organized the “World Zero Energy Building Survey Forum”, and Dr. Lin was invited, Feb. 22, to give a keynote speech, on NCKU’s the Y.S. Sun Green Building Research Center.
During the forum, the NCKU’s Green Magic School was unanimously recognized as one of the world’s few “zero energy buildings”, with the most academic input and the most beautiful among them.
Donated by Delta Electronics Inc. chairman Bruce Cheng and constructed based on Taiwan’s local technology, the NCKU’s Green Magic School, which is also recognized as the green miracle of Taiwan, has become a famous tourist attraction in Southern Taiwan.
Since it was officially opened two years ago, the building has welcomed many visitors, including scholars and government officials, to observe and learn from its success. Other visitors also consisted of elementary and secondary school students from different cities around Taiwan as part of their extra-curricular activities.
The number of visitors has exceeded thirty thousand people per annum, according to statistics, showing great contribution of the Green Magic School to Taiwan’s environmental education.
Now that this building has been awarded the “World’s Greenest Building”, this achievement has highlighted Taiwan’s renowned quality of green buildings, enabling the people of Taiwan to understand the soft power of NCKU.
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