Building/Asset Investments

GRI 417
HKEX Aspect A3, B6, KPI A3.1, B6.4

As part of our management approach to identify and manage significant impacts of our buildings on the environment and natural resources, we aim to obtain certification for our buildings under environmental building assessment schemes that provide benchmarks and objective standards against which we can measure our performance.

We support green building development as part of the Building/Asset Investments focus area. The relevant SDGs are:

SDG 11

Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

SDG 12

Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Demonstrating and Sustaining Green Building Leadership

We employ an integrated design approach to our projects in accordance with the requirements of several internationally-recognised standards and ratings schemes, requiring members of our project teams to work together in areas ranging from building design to construction and operation.

We also encourage our tenants to participate in environmental building assessment schemes, and work closely with them to implement sustainability strategies that will help them to achieve the relevant certifications.

These schemes include:

BEAM Plus, a set of standards recognised and certified by the Hong Kong Green Building Council
LEED, a rating system devised by the United States Green Building Council
China Green Building Design Label, issued by the Ministry of Construction in Mainland China
The WELL Certification, a scheme developed by the International WELL Building Institute

Green Building Awards 2019

Our efforts to create outstanding green built environments were recognised through our receipt of three top accolades at the Green Building Awards 2019, including the Pioneer Award.

Global Certification Leadership

In Beijing, INDIGO has been carrying out energy-saving optimisation works and maintaining excellent operational performance since it opened in 2012. In 2019, INDIGO mall, ONE INDIGO and EAST, Beijing achieved Final Platinum under LEED Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance Version 4.1, the first mixed-use development in the world to do so.

Green Buildings as a Percentage of our Portfolio

of projects under development²⁶ achieved the highest ratings of green building certification

of all existing buildings²⁷ are certified green buildings, of which 84% have achieved the highest ratings

Type and Number of Green Building Certification, Rating and Labelling Schemes

(as at 31st December 2019)

buildings²⁸ earned BEAM or BEAM Plus certification, with 29 of those achieving the highest ratings (Excellent/Platinum)

buildings earned LEED certification, achieving either Platinum or Gold ratings

mixed-use developments achieved Gold ratings under the LEED for Neighbourhood Development

Green Buildings Certified in 2019

BEAM Plus

Two Taikoo Place

Provisional Platinum (New Buildings Version 1.2)

South Island Place

Final Platinum (New Buildings Version 1.2)

LEED

INDIGO mall, ONE INDIGO, and EAST, Beijing

Final Platinum (Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance Version 4.1)

Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu

Final Platinum (Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance Version 4.1)

Taikoo Li Qiantan

Precertification Gold (Building Design and Construction: Core and Shell Development Version 2009)

WELL

One Taikoo Place

Final Platinum (Core and Shell Version 1)

Two Taikoo Place

Platinum Precertification (Core and Shell Version 1)

Taikoo Li Qiantan

Platinum Precertification (Core and Shell Version 1)

²⁶ “Projects under development” refers to projects that are under construction or in the precertification stage. It does not include joint venture projects.

²⁷ Measured as the percentage of total GFA.

²⁸ Refers to buildings that were built after BEAM was established in 1996 and that are either managed or at least 50% owned by Swire Properties. Small-scale, low-rise buildings in the same development are counted as one building and not as individual buildings.

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