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AmCham Shanghai: Sustainability Conference
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Enter the Green Dragon
China’s Built Environment Value Chain Goes Green
AmCham Shanghai’s Sustainability Conference
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Grand Hyatt Shanghai
Tickets Now on Sale at the AmCham Office!
Shanghai Centre, Suite 568 1376 Nanjing Road West Shanghai, China 200040
Phone: (8621) 6279-7119 Fax: (8621) 6279-7643
E-mail:amcham@amcham-shanghai.org Website: www.amcham-shanghai.org
How does building “green” in China move from marketing hype to reality?
Energy efficiency is a global priority for businesses, individuals and policymakers. It not only offers real cost savings, but it also significantly limits the impact of climate change and enhances energy security. As China continues to focus on reducing the energy intensity of its economy, it also increasingly focuses on promoting sustainability and green technology.
The second annual AmCham Shanghai Sustainability Conference will cover the entire value chain to explore the issue from a practical, business-oriented perspective.
The engaging and thought-provoking program will examine:
- Why should businesses care? Ultimately, how are both the top- and bottom-line impacted?
- The Chinese government can move mountains when it wants. What is it doing to stimulate a focus on sustainability and green technology?
- How can we plan and design for the future so that our built environment becomes a net positive contributor to the human ecosystem?
- Does building ‘green’ cost more? How do you design a building and prioritize all the various technologies to reduce demand on natural resources and create lifecycle savings?
- What are developers not only saying, but doing, about building ‘green’?
It provides a forum to present, explore and discuss new technologies, processes and designs that inject real energy efficiencies into the development value chain. Join business executives and thought leaders as we explore this important and timely topic.
We are pleased to present our keynote speakers:
Rob Watson, Chairman, Ecotech International, Founder of the LEED? Green-Building Rating System and the only foreign recipient of the PRC Ministry of Construction’s Green Building Innovation Award
Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey Shanghai, and co-author of McKinsey’s recent and forthcoming report’s on China’s Urbanization, Energy Productivity and Carbon Productivity, in addition being the co-author of the HBS Press book, Operation China
They will be joined by an exciting panel of business leaders, urban planners, government officials and academics who will explore the many facets of this important topic.
This conference will be of great value to:
- Real estate investors and developers
- Providers of green technology and energy efficient technology used in the built environment
- Private equity and venture capital investors seeking to understand the China market for the technologies of their portfolio companies
- Corporate users of the built environment looking to reduce their energy usage and consumption
Please don’t miss out on this chance to learn and network with thought leaders and leading business professionals at this dynamic annual event.
Ticket sales start on Thursday, August 21, 2008. Make sure you take advantage of the early bird ticket prices and get your tickets before Friday, September 5, 2008.
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Time: 08:30 – 18:30
Venue: Grand Hyatt Shanghai (???????)
Address: 88 Century Boulevard, Pudong (?????? 88 ?)
Price:
RMB 1,200 (Member ticket purchased before Friday, September 5)
RMB 1,500 (Member ticket purchased after Friday, September 5)
RMB 1,800 (Non Member ticket purchased before Friday, September 5)
RMB 2,100 (Non Member ticket purchased after Friday, September 5)
Price includes conference fee, coffee breaks and cocktail
Definition of AmCham Shanghai Member: You are personally registered as a member for your
company and you have been issued a membership card.
Definition of Non AmCham Shanghai Member: You are not personally registered with AmCham
Shanghai and do not have a membership card, even though someone else in your company may be
registered.
Tickets: All tickets must be prepaid. Tickets will be sold on a first come first serve basis. To secure
your ticket, submit your RSVP form with payment to the AmCham Shanghai office.
Payment: All tickets must be paid for at the AmCham Shanghai office (Shanghai Centre, Suite 568,
1376 Nanjing West Road) in RMB cash, USD cash. Sorry, we are not able to accept Credit Card
payments.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made before 5:00PM Wednesday, September 3 will receive a
100% refund. Cancellations made after 5:00PM Wednesday, September 3 will not be eligible for
any refund
Tags: architecture, built environment, conference, green construction, responsiblechina, shanghai, sustainability
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Erica
[...] always informative ResponsibleChina.com was kind enough to provide a write-up about the conference so you can head there for further [...]
Most of the conference seems to revolve around new buildings, but older buildings that are structurally sound can be refitted as well. New construction does emit more GHGs than refitting existing buildings!