An Introduction to Low Carbon Design

PHILIPPINE INTERNATIONAL ECO SHOW

Eco-Solutions For A Greener Tomorrow

About Benoy

A Growing Presence Creating Destinations worldwide

Who is Benoy?
An internationally acclaimed, award
winning firm of Architects, Master
Planners, Interior, Hospitality and
Graphic Designers working in design
studios in the UK, Abu Dhabi, Hong
Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.
Benoy brings together design integrity,
international experience, local
understanding and real personality to
create the Benoy offer.
Whilst specialising in retail design,
Benoy also embrace a wider range of
sectors such as offices, hotels,
residential, leisure, and transportation.

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Our designers offer a fusion of

Creativity underpinned with
Commercial know-how.
We create mixed use projects
whose primary function is to create
maximum return on investment for
our clients and their investors.
Our success is not just measured by
how well the building looks, but how
well it performs.
Our designers begin by absorbing
the financial parameters of the
project, and then they progress to
create new boundaries and new
values through the medium of
design.
We have become a recognized
world leader in our highly
specialized sector of designing
commercial buildings.

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Recently completed projects

ION Orchard, Singapore

Westfield, London, UK

St. Davids 2, Cardiff, UK

Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Pudong IFC, Shanghai, China

Palace 66, Shenyang, China

Awards
- ION Orchard Best project outside Hong Kong at
QBA 2010
- Shanghai ICC Best Commercial Development
Future Category Cityscape Asia Awards 2009
- Elements Best Commercial Development Built
Category Cityscape Asia Awards 2009
- ULI Award for Excellence Asia Pacific 2008
- Queens Award for Enterprise and International
Trade 2008
- RLI Award for Design 2006, 2007, 2008
- Interior Design Firm of the Year at Asia Pacific Real
Estate Awards 2008
- Retail / Leisure Development of the Year at the Asia
Pacific Real Estate Awards 2008 Elements Mall
- East Midlands Business Awards 2007
International Business of the Year
Established Exporter China
Established Exporter India
- Mipim Asia Awards 2007 winner
Best Shopping Centre Elements Mall, Kowloon
-UKTI India Business Awards New Market Entrant of
the year 2007.
- ION Orchard (Singapore) wins the Building
Construction Authoritys Environmental Green Mark
Award (Gold Certificate)
- RIBA Public Vote - Cornerhouse voted Nottinghams
favourite modern building 2006
- Times 100 Best Company

- Chairman Graham Cartledge short-listed for,

Entrepreneur of the Year
- Highest Climber 2006, Architects Journal
- Designer of the Year Award 2007, Global
Publication Retail and Leisure International
- Designer of the Year Award 2006, Global
Publication Retail and Leisure International
- 2006 Quality Building Award for APM, Hong
Kong Professional Consortium
- Estate Gazettes Best Retail Development over
20,000m, MAPIC 2006
- Estate Gazettes Best Overall Architectural
Entry, MAPIC 2006
- Cathay Pacific Award for Enterprise 2006

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What is Sustainable?

The impact of the

construction Industry
on the Environment
-20% materials on construction
sites end up in landfill.
-53% carbon dioxide produced
through the heating, lighting
and ventilating of buildings.
-1/3 of waste generated comes
from construction and
demolition.

What is Sustainable?

Economic

Economic dimensions of sustainability

Creation of new markets and opportunities for sales growth
Cost reduction through efficiency improvements and reduced
energy and raw material inputs
Creation of additional added value and increased productivity

Environmental

Environmental dimensions of sustainability

Reduced waste, effluent generation, emissions to environment
Reduced impact on human health
Use of renewable raw materials
Elimination of toxic substances

Social

Social dimensions of sustainability

Worker health and safety
Impacts on local communities, quality of life
Benefits to disadvantaged groups e.g. disabled

1. definition formulated by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)

5 principles of low carbon design

Healthful Interior Environment
Ensure materials and building systems don't emit toxic substances and gasses into the interior atmosphere. Additional
measures are to be taken to clean and revitalize interior air with filtration and plantings.

Energy Efficiency
Ensure minimal building use of energy. Cooling, heating and lighting systems are to use methods & products that
conserve or eliminate energy use. Explore alternative renewable power sources.

Ecologically Benign Materials

Use environmental reused or recycled building materials and products that minimize destruction of the global environment
& have a minimum production of toxic waste. (Concrete, Steel, PVC Minimization
Sustainable Timber, Design for disassembly, Flexibility of spaces).

Environmental Form
Relate the form & plan of the design to the site, region and climate. Measures are to be taken to "heal" and augment the
ecology of the site. Plan for recycling in construction, demolition and occupation

Good Design
Achieve efficient, flexible, long lasting (consider future needs) design with circulation, building form, mechanical systems
& construction technology contributing positively to development of communities.

Benoy Policy on Low Carbon Building Design

Benoy Sustainable Design Process

Pre-design (Briefing) Phase

Design Phase
CD Phase

Team Formation

Tender/ CA Phase
Education

Operation &
Maintenance

Goal Setting
Design
Optimization

Benoy & Client

Documentation Commission
Specification

Benoy

PM

Manual

Operator

LEED Methodology
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System
encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development
practices through the implementation of universally accepted tools and performance criteria.

LEED

Planning
& Site

Water

Energy

Indoor Air
Quality

Materials

Avoid Heat island effect

- Lower building mass towards
the cities edge than the center
- Avoid large high rise clusters
- Vegetating urban landscapes
improves community life and air
quality by reducing summer
temperatures and air
conditioning

Benefits of green belts

- Improves air quality within
urban areas (air corridors)
- Encourages walking & biking
- Habitat for wild plants and
wildlife

Design unsealed
surfaces
- Open joint pavements for
walkways allows the surface to
breathe and provide cooling
effect

Design shaded surfaces

to avoid heat build up
- Evaporation in hot climates
lasts longer
- Trees: shading, noise
reduction, filters dust, reduces
CO2 while oxygen is produced

Green roofs and green

facades
- Delays storm water reach the
drainage and avoid rapid
flooding
- Reduces energy losses in cold
climate & heat build up in hot.
- Reduce street noise
- Provides extra living space
- Enhances biodiversity and
wildlife

Passive solar energy

and solar performance

Natural Ventilation and

Air movement

- Full advantage of the sun's

natural heat. With good
orientation, the building will
capture solar heat in winter &
block solar gain in summer.

- Helps cool occupants by

increasing air movement
- Position of faade openings to
enhance natural ventilation.
- Use of solar chimneys to
enhance stack air movement
- Don't install 1 cooling unit
only. Use add-on systems
mechanical ventilation with top
cooling beams at the facade

Floors and Ceilings

Cooling strategies
- Floor undersides can
determine effective thermal
mass. Concrete floor free of
finishes radiates stored heat in
cold conditions & cools in hot
conditions.
- Cooled raised floors (embed
pipes to carry cooling water)
- Thermo active Slabs : Waterfilled embedded in concrete
floor aid cooling/heating energy
into the interiors of the building
regulating temperatures.
- Chilled Ceilings reduce
thermal stratification and
balances the effect of thermal
buoyancy rising warm air.

Wind
- Renewable energy, can
reduce greenhouse gas
emissions
- The long axis of building
should be parallel to wind flow.
- Tall buildings to step away
from the wind
- Curved facades moderate the
impact of wind. Use canopies &
podiums to reduce down draft.
- Building layout should avoid
tunneling effect between two
adjacent buildings.

Lighting Design
- Maximize day lighting for
visual comfort, productivity and
reduce energy use (electricity
savings and lower lighting
levels)
- Automatic/Timed light control
system switches the lights off or
dims them to a lower level.
- Specify energy efficient lamps.
(low wattage lamps produce
less heat which in return does
not need to be cooled
expensively.)

Principal Day Lighting

Design Factors
- Orientation of windows
(provide external daylight and
time orientation for occupants
- Reflection surrounding
surfaces
- Glazing has a clear influence
on daylight % but large
windows also provide heat gain
and loss
- Skylights assist natural lighting
- In non-domestic buildings,
window area should be 20 % of
floor area to provide sufficient
light to a depth of 1.5 times the
height of the room.

Benoy Case study: Jiang Tai Project, Beijing

Benoys Role :
A commitment to
Sustainable Design
Benoy is the lead consultant
providing a full scope of
professional service from initial
planning to retail and hotel
interior design. The project is
currently under construction with
an aim to open by 2011.

Benoy and the Developer

committed in ensuring that the
project buildings are planned,
designed, constructed and
managed with respect to the
environment and should receive
Gold LEED and excellent HKBEAM standing (Hong Kong
Building Environmental
Assessment Method) systems.

Developers: Hong Kong Swire

Properties & Beijing Sino Ocean Land
Lead Architect, Hotel and Retail
Interior Design: Benoy
Structural and MEP Engineers:
Ove Arup (Hong Kong)
Faade Consultant:
Hugh Dutton Associates (Paris)
Faade Engineers: ARUP Faade
(Hong Kong)
Landscape Architect: Urbis Limited
Acoustic Consultant: ARUP
Acoustics
Daylight and Energy Simulation
Building Energy Research Centre:
Tsinghua University
Location: Chaoyang District, Beijing
Site area: 58,628m
Total GFA: 175,885.05m
Height limit: 100m
Green Area Ratio: 20%
Site Coverage: 53.75%

3 major components:
- 4 levels (& 3 basements), 84,496m
Retail Podium with 154 shops, 6 house
cineplex, 500 capacity food court &
winter garden space covered by a
complex monocoque structure.
- 24 floors square Office Tower.
- 24 floors Hotel (370 rooms) Typical
plan using shallow floor plates with most
rooms facing the open park in the east.

Retail podium

Hotel

Office

Site Design Strategies

Located in a medium density
mix used area, the projects
intention is to compliment the
large public park east of the site.
Seeing this as an opportunity,
Benoys site design strategies
aim to:
- Create a level of development
density that is in congruity with
the surrounding area.
- Enable linkage to the park.
- Provide daylight opportunities
to office tower and retail podium.
- Reduce surface exposure with
compact massing relationship.
- Optimize quantity and quality
of open space on site
- Maximize urban connectivity,
locate entrances near bus stops
for pedestrian convenience and
provide 200m bicycle storage to
encourage use of bicycle
- Maximizes open space on G/F
with all basement car parking
- Adapted Landscape planting to
enhance local ecology.
Heat island effect reduction (tree
shading, low solar reflectance
materials & open grid pavers.

Maximizing open space potential with

native plant species

Water Resource
Strategies

180m3
grey water
Treatment Tank

Grey water

Due to recent rapid urbanization,

Beijing is constantly facing a
shortage of water supply. The
Jiang Tai Project aims to
minimize water usage and
recover all potential re-useable
water.
- Development of water resource
management plan (integrated
rainwater collection and grey
water recovery system).

Treatment process
80m3 Recovered water
tank 2 hour usage
capacity

5 rainwater
collection tanks

180m3
Rain/condensation
water Treatment
Tank

Condensation water

Integrated water recovery schematic flow diagram

- Five underground concrete

rainwater collection pools to
receive storm runoff (recovered
water will be mainly used for
flushing and landscape
irrigation).
- 30% reduction of potable water
by selecting low flow water
closets, urinals, showers and
sinks.

Treatment process

Integrated water recovery

room, 675m2 plant room on
B1, 6m clear headroom

Energy Conservation

All glass including the

monocoque roof will use
Low-E IGU

Beijing has recently implemented

new energy saving requirements
for public buildings. The Project
satisfies these requirements and
commits to provide energy
saving/recovery mechanisms.

Basic Envelope Design

Principles
The roof and wall surface of each
building component is restricted
to 30% glass to solid ratio.
- All low E glass specified (min.
thermal transmittance value and
Insulated Glass Unit (IGU)
- Winter Garden: Monocoque roof
with fritted patterns provides
shading to large event space and
reduces summer cooling load.
60% of arcade have natural light.
- Sun-shading mechanism is
under-consideration to provide
flexibility for sunlight control.
- 10,625m of green roof to
provide thermal protection to retail
podium & create a visual and
sustainable design statement.

Interior of Winter Garden space with sun shading device

Energy Conservation
- 78 ice storage devices produce
ice at night for thermal exchange
during daytime. The aim is to
take advantage of lower
electrical cost at night while
transferring the peak electrical
loading to nighttime, reducing
day time power production
demands.
- Maximize Energy Efficiency
- Heat recovery device are
installed to capture residual heat
energy from return air duct,
maximizing energy efficiency.
- Simulate energy usage during
the design stage
- Use of Building Management
System to monitor on-going
energy usage and consumption.
- Use of low energy
consumption light fitting like
LEDs.
- Eliminate landscape & faade
decorative lighting, control light
density and intensity
- Provide exterior lights for wayfinding, safety and security only.
- Use only of R-22 or R134a
refrigerants to minimize ozone
depletion.

Ice storage tank for Air Conditioning, reference

from EMSD Hong Kong

28m deep atrium allowing

sunlight deep penetration
of daylight into the
basement retail space

Material and Resource

Management

Flooring mainly of constituted stone

and engineered bamboo

- Provision of 630m of material

recovery, sorting and storage
space for recyclables located
near the loading bays.
- With 20% lettable area, large
amounts of organic waste will
be generated daily, the project
is considering an advanced bioorganic waste management
machine that convert kitchen
waste to nutrient rich water for
safe discharge or irrigation.
- Use of environmental materials
(regionally manufactured to
reduce transportation costs and
pollution generated during
material delivery) :
* Engineered bamboo
(floors, wall panels,
handrail, etc.)
* Certified wood
(handrails, etc.)
* Steel structure with high
recycle steel content

Use of bamboo as decorative panels

Indoor Environmental
Quality
- Establish minimal air quality
performance by enhancing and
controlling outdoor air flow
capacity (LEED requirement).
- Prohibit indoor smoking,
(designated smoking areas).
- Increase indoor ventilation rate
by 30% above ASHRAE 62.12004 standards
- Require contractor to do air
quality plan during construction
stage to prevent pollution
- Specify low VOC emitting
materials, such as:
* Carpet and carpet cushion
* Sealant, adhesive
* Paints, sealers, coatings
* Composite wood products

Key Points Summary

After the completion, the project will
obtain ISO 14001, Environmental
Management Standard to help
minimize its environmental impact
during the operational stage and will
achieve LEED accreditation.
Public transport connection
commercial/ community value
Allocated underground parking
reduction of noise and pollution
Green space and reduce heat
island effect
green ratio apply per plan code
Maximum open space
same with most planning rules
Light pollution
benefits to running cost
Water efficiency
benefits to running cost
Indoor environmental quality
benefits to leasing opportunities
Optimized Energy Performance
benefits to running cost
Innovation and design process
public education is counted
benefiting to business images

Potential Energy Reductions

Tenant
HVAC

10-40% design
controls
commissioning

Lighting

25-50% fittings
controls

Power

10-25% fixtures
AV
controls

Benoy Case study: Hyderabad Botanical Garden

Botanical Gardens Mixed

use Project at a glance
Benoys design scope :
- 75,000m2 high-street mall (with 8screen multiplex, various anchors &
hypermarket)
-14,000m2 office development &
supporting uses such as a grand
entrance plaza (1,800m2) & a
nursery supermarket garden centre
(2,000m2)

Office Area 2

Nursery Supermarket

Office Area 3

Entrance Plaza

Client : Delara Tourism Corporation

Ltd
Special focus is on sustainability and
low energy consumption throughout
the design. It is also important to
create a totally pedestrian prioritized
environment that blends with the
botanical garden and creates a loose
transition between the built
environment and the natural habitat
of the park.

Retail

Benoys Role :
A commitment to
Sustainable Design
-30 yrs Concession by Andhra
Pradesh Forest Department to
develop 10% of the land for
commercial uses, in exchange
client will BOT world-class
Botanical Garden on rest area
-Solar power on roof
-Recycled Bricks with fly-ash
approved to get LEED point
- Large copper roofs with high
recycling content (nearly 100%)
Challenge: day-light penetration
to achieve LEED point (cinema
box, hypermarket etc)
- Gray water collection to irrigate
Botanical Garden; lake used as
storage

Environmental materials
All specified materials are sourced
locally while the building orientation
is aiming to reduce necessary airconditioning loads.
Eco & natural earthy finishes
proposed (copper, green walls,
timber, etc.)

Natural
Stone
Faade
Elements

Copper
Roofing

Living Green
Walls

Trellis with
creepers and
planting

Timber
Columns

Rubble Masonry
Columns

Planter
Boxes

Ornamental
Railing

The first green high street

Mall in India
The Hyderabad Botanical Garden
concept has been a proven success
worldwide but never before adopted
on the Subcontinent.
The project aims to achieve the first
LEED Platinum Certification in India,
a novelty for India & therefore a
benchmark project for sustainability
& social responsibility.
The mall will be built as an integral
part of a newly developed Botanical
Garden of international standard.
With a nearby new 5-star hotel,
convention centre, spa & golf course
the mall will attract tourists & locals
alike. Therefore it will act as a huge
magnet for the region & another
development catalyst for the
successful Hitech City area of
Hyderabad.

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