With the improvement of the essentiality of urbanization and global economic recovery, the industry insiders not only face a range of challenges to promote the efficient utilization of energy and resources but also on how to achieve optimal building development through convert from those issues to action.  The 2010 forum covered important themes such as energy saving and building energy efficiency, zero energy emission buildings design, delivering low cost green building productivity, ecological settlements construction. The keynote speakers in the morning include Mr. Bingren Li, Chief Economist of Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, Mr. Zaidong Zhang, the Chairman of Beijing Fengshang Real Estate. Co., Ltd, Mr. Xue Zhong, the Deputy General Manager of DASSO Industrial Group Co., Ltd, and Mr. Quinn Lu, China Representative of German Sustainable Building Council, etc.

 

The panel discussion in the afternoon focused on the Low Carbon Strategy on Architectural Design and these panelists include Mr. Xue Kongkuan, the President of Beijing Modern Building Institute, Architects & Engineers, Mr. Michael C Mitchell, CEO of MCM Group, Mr. David Baggs, Technical Director of Ecospecifier Global and panelists including Mr. Tianxin Wang, General Manager of Shanghai Nikko Architectural Consultation Co., Ltd and Mr. Ting Yu, Deputy Chief Architect of Shanghai Xian Dai and Mr. Zhang Min, Associate Professor of School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University. All panelists exchanged their view of the urban planning influenced on the green building design, the practice experience of energy efficiency teleology application and the idea of green architectural design in national pavilions of Shanghai world Expo. All panelists agreed that government played an important role to promote the development of green building industry through enacting the policy, meanwhile, try to explore how sustainability can be achievable during the entire life cycle of building. The panel speakers addressed these questions with insightful views which won the praises form audiences.