Hong Kong Green Building Week (HKGBW)

The Hong Kong Green Building Week 2022 (HKGBW 2022), the annual public campaign co-organised by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) and the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The campaign, themed “10 out of 10 for Green Building. Carbon Neutrality by 2050!”, had been held from 24 September to 30 September. To echo this year’s theme, HKGBW 2022 highlighted 10 crucial green building elements, and offered a diverse line-up of activities in which the public could participate and celebrate the 10-year milestone of HKGBW.

Overall Programme Highlights of Hong Kong Green Building Week 2022

Hong Kong Green Building Week 2022 had ended with great success! Thank you all for your support along the way. We had over 180 Supporting Organisations, over 1,000 competition and game participants, and over 250,000 Biz-Green Dress Day participants this year! See you next year!

Promotional Video of Hong Kong Green Building Week 2022

Apart from the two main characters with a big grey ball on each of their bodies, symbolising carbon emission, the mascot of the HKGBW, “Green Building Buddy” was upgraded as “Captain Green Building” to celebrate the 10th anniversary of HKGBW. Themed “10 out of 10 for Green Building. Carbon Neutrality by 2050!”, “Captain Green Building” in the video showed us the ten green building elements and engaged all of us to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 together.

Ten Green Building Elements

To further enhance public understanding of carbon reduction by green buildings, HKGBW 2022 highlighted 10 crucial green building elements, including Smart Energy Design, Renewable Energy, Water Conservation, Biophilic Design, Ventilation Design, Microclimate Design, Utilising Eco-friendly Materials, Waste Reduction and Recycling, Green Finance and Reducing Construction Pollution, and offered a diverse line-up of public activities.

The Hong Kong Green Building Week (HKGBW) 2022 Kick-off Ceremony was successfully held on 24 September at CIC-Zero Carbon Park. Mr TSE Chin-wan, BBS, JP, Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Ir Thomas HO On-shing, JP, Chairman of the CIC, and Mr CHEUNG Hau-wai, SBS, Chairman of the HKGBC attended as the Officiating Guests. Around 100 guests from government representatives, industry professionals and experts participated in the event. Themed “10 out of 10 for Green Building. Carbon Neutrality by 2050!”, the Officiating Guests kicked off the HKGBW 2022 by putting giant green building blocks one by one, symbolising the three parties would work together to build up a carbon-neutral green building city.

At the ceremony, the Officiating Guests also presented the prizes to the winners of “10 out of 10 for Green Building KOL Video Competition” and recognised the gorgeous winning entries. Besides, the Kick-off Ceremony marked the official launch of “Greenbuildingverse”, a two-week online interactive game encourages the participants to finish online and onsite missions, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 together.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of HKGBW, “10 out of 10 for Green Building KOL Video Competition” was launched as an opening programme of the HKGBW 2022. The public was encouraged to act as green building KOLs, developing a video from a theme related to “10” and “Green Building” to capture the beauty of one green building from the ten designated local green buildings and introduce their sustainable features. Throughout the competition, the public could learn the benefits of green buildings and the importance of carbon reduction.

For more information on the ten designated green buildings, ten green building elements and the must-read tips of the video competition, please refer to “Ten Designated Green Buildings Guide Book” for more production aspirations, or rewatch the Video Production Workshop and Demonstration Video. The competition results have been announced on our social media platforms and competition website.

“Ten Designated Green Buildings Guide Book”

Ten Designated Green Buildings

Biz-Green Dress Day 2022 Highlights

We received the passionate support from over 180 Supporting Organisations in Hong Kong this year. On the Biz-Green Dress Day held on 7 September, a Mascot Tour with “Captain Green Building” and “Hanson” was conducted in the offices of Arup & Bank of China (Hong Kong). You can also find the Biz-Green outfits demonstrated by the winners of the “10 Biz-Green Outfits Social Challenge” at the end of the video. Here we would like to congratulate all the winners again! The highlights was uploaded to the social platforms and YouTube Channel of the HKGBC. Let’s check out the video now!

The public was invited to register as a Green Building Team Member and explore our Greenbuildingverse from 24 September to 7 October. Through this online interactive game, the participants could follow our Celebrity Ambassadors Singer-songwriter Ms Panther CHAN (Panther) and famous YouTuber Mr Boris WONG (Boris), to visit local green buildings and finish missions to collect “Green Building Badges”. Fabulous prizes for the Team included Dyson Tower Fan, Nintendo Switch OLED Model, AirPods (3rd generation), and one-night staycation package at The Emperor Hotel, etc. The results have been announced on our social media platforms soon. Thank you for your participation and support!

Promotional Video of Greenbuildingverse

Panther and Boris guided the audience to visit four local green buildings with a first-person point of view, including Central Market, a revitalised historic building , M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture, Peak Galleria, a one-stop shopping, dining, and entertainment landmark, and The Emperor Hotel, an environmentally friendly urban retreat.