Sustainability We All Count – For Our Future
In 2023, we launched the fourth iteration of Swire Properties’ SD communication campaign, “Sustainability We All Count”. The campaign first began in 2020 to raise SD awareness among the Company’s employees and stakeholders. In 2021, the campaign highlighted our commitment to the Business Ambition for 1.5°C campaign, and in 2022 we focused on empowering our employees, tenants, customers, suppliers, and the public to work together in pursuit of the 1.5°C goal.
In December 2023, we rolled out the fourth iteration of “Sustainability We All Count” with a new theme, “For Our Future”, and a year-long strategy that focuses on three major SD pillars: biodiversity, innovation, and wellbeing. The campaign features brand-new creative images of a big show of hands, accompanied by intriguing stories about our SD achievements. This year-long campaign will also feature an array of exciting engagement programmes online and offline to promote the Company’s vision in sustainability and fighting climate change.
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Technical Forum 2023
In September, Swire Properties held our second biennial Technical Forum, called “Driving Net Zero: Power of Technical Excellence”. This three-day event in Beijing featured seminars, guest presentations, sharing from various BU representatives, and site visits, bringing together over 100 colleagues from our Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland portfolios, including technical and sustainability experts.
The Technical Forum aimed to expand our professional and best practice capabilities, further cultivate a culture of sharing and collaboration, catch up with the latest built environment-related research and technology, and celebrate the efforts and contributions of our technical and project teams. Discussion topics included PEDF power systems, AI, digital energy management, and global climate-resilient building design trends. The participants also visited INDIGO, Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Shougang Park – an example of Beijing’s urban revival, and the WELL Living Lab – a research centre integrating building, behavioural and health sciences in a placemaking context.
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Miami WE-LAB
“WE-LAB” (The Water + Energy Learning + Behaviour Program) is a collaboration between Dream in Green, Miami-Dade County and various cities in South Florida that works to build awareness on how water and energy are interrelated and empower people to make informed decisions regarding water and energy use. The programme is made available through various partnerships including the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department and Solid Waste Management.
Through educational and interactive workshops, WE-LAB seeks to motivate community-wide water- and energy-saving behaviours and foster long-term environmental stewardship through money-saving actions. WE-LAB participants become empowered to track their water and energy use at home and apply these new behaviours to reduce utility costs, greenhouse gas emissions and overall negative impacts on the environment.
In mid-September 2023, our Brickell City Center development hosted a WE-LAB workshop for 50 people – comprising residents of Reach & Rise and Brickell neighbours. The participants learned about how small behavioural changes can create cumulative impacts, such as how to hand-wash dishes effectively. If every household in the U.S.A. participated in such an initiative, over 100 billion gallons of water could be saved annually.
SD 2030 E-learning Module
Launched in early 2023, our comprehensive new SD e-learning module covers all basic aspects of our SD 2030 Strategy and relevant ESG topics such as decarbonisation, energy efficiency, resource and circularity, and water efficiency. The module is now part of the onboarding process for new joiners and is a part of the refresher training for all existing employees. It includes videos from Company leaders, case studies and an entertaining “SD Dictionary” mini-game based on SD buzzwords.
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New INDIGO Newsletter
In 2023, Version 2.0 of the INDIGO newsletter was launched. Published quarterly, the newsletter has five columns: INmoments, INstory, INpeople, INsight and INfuture, providing colleagues with a diversified platform to broaden readership. Each issue presents information and news, records the achievements of each department, and reports on the continued growth of INDIGO.
New Taikoo Place and Pacific Place Offices App
In 2023, Swire Properties launched our market leading office experience platforms in Taikoo Place and Pacific Place. Apart from accessing tenant engagement events, restaurant bookings and wellness services, these platforms also serve as a key channel to communicate our sustainability efforts. These efforts include:
- Real-time indoor air quality: Providing tenants & customers with information about the air quality in their surroundings.
- SD Engagement initiatives: Announcing and promoting initiatives that encourage participation, such as green performance pledge, reusable cups, recycling campaign, and more.
- Sharing updates on our latest SD achievements & accreditations.
- Promoting a healthy work-life balance for our tenants by offering sign-ups to a wide range of fitness and wellness services and organising events that cater to their well-being.
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World Environment Day Workshop and Activities
To mark the 50th World Environment Day, our TSSD department organised a workshop on the measures and techniques used to recycle solid waste. A researcher from Tsinghua University gave a presentation on the zero-waste masterplan for an industrial park in Beijing, showing how a commercial property can “go green”; while a tenant representative discussed the company’s innovative packaging and waste solutions. Following the workshop, TSSD launched an internal zero-waste challenge to reduce plastic waste.
Swire Properties also organised other activities to celebrate the day and its theme of “Let’s Beat Plastic Pollution”, including “lunch and learn” sessions on ways to beat the global plastic pandemic and how to work towards creating a zero-waste city; a “Plastic? No More!” game booth that travelled across the Company’s five Hong Kong offices; a Zero Waste Challenge in which over 50 colleagues participated; and Hong Kong’s first ever “Recycle Bar” at Cityplaza, decorated with furniture made from over 18,000 plastic bottles, showcasing the many ways in which recycled bottles can be given a new life.
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