Tiếng Việt
A green building for young generations
Pou Chen’s Kindergarten project pursued LOTUS Non Residential V.1.1 certification. The kindergarten covers nearly 5,000m2 providing child care services to children of Pou Chen’s employees. The 1.5 storey building is designed as a continuous clover-shaped loop utilizing an internal courtyard; a green roof and external area to maximize are for playing and outdoor learning.
Under LOTUS Non-Residential, the project achieved LOTUS Silver at a very high score with 94 points, of which 88 points of credits in different categories and 6 points of innovation category for significant enhancement in energy performance, water use reduction, green roof, construction waste reuse/recycle and use of local material.
Over 40% of energy consumption is reduced by: naturally ventilated classrooms and common areas, efficient artificial lighting coupled with good daylighting, self-supplied hot water by solar heaters. In aspect of water savings: More than 40% reduction of water consumption through fixtures. Irrigation demand is supplied by reused water coming from the nearby factory.
Furthermore, green roof covers almost the roof area and more than 70% of the total site are is vegetated, which has some benefits such as: reducing stormwater runoff, mitigating the heat island effect to create a good insulation layer, decreasing the need of using air-conditioning, increasing biodiversity, providing additional green space for occupants. Besides, 100% of occupied areas have external views.
Officially inaugurated and put into operation since October 2013, Green World Kindergarten now has more than 200 children in range of 2 to 5 years old with 16 teachers and staff. The school becomes a sustainable and environmentally-friendly education space, suitable for children – the future generation of workers in the company.
A need in promoting energy-efficient and green building movement in Vietnam
Green building movement in Vietnam is not strong enough compared to other countries in Southeast Asia in particular and the world in general. India has 2,362 registered projects with 447 certified ones, equivalent to 1,813 billion square feet of green building footprint. However, this figure is rather modest in Vietnam with approximately 12 registered buildings, 4 of which are certified.
To further boosting this trend in Vietnam, VGBC would like to receive the support and active participation of governmental agencies, research institutes, universities and the private sector to develop LOTUS, consider LOTUS as ” third-party ” in certifying green building, identifying incentive policies green building development in the private sector, raising awareness about green building for stakeholders to make propaganda in green buildings.
“Green World Kindergarten is one of the first projects in Vietnam which was certified by LOTUS Rating Tool. This is a great effort of Pouchen Vietnam Co., Ltd’s leaders, which demonstrated their corporate social responsibility. We hope that this inspiring project will be a source of motivation to vigorously promote green building trend in Vietnam”, says Mr. Tran Van Thanh, Executive Director of VGBC.
