Chinachem Group and Hong Kong Green Building Council co-organised �Chinachem Sustainability Conference� with focus on Age-friendly

HONG KONG, CHINA�- Media OutReach - 29 March
2019 – Co-organized by Chinachem Group and Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC), the fourth edition of Chinachem Sustainability
Conference took place today under the theme “How to Foster Age-Friendly
Developments”. The conference was officiated by the Guest of Honour, The
Secretary for Development, Mr Michael WONG Wai-lun, JP, and attended by a
full-house of 380 industry professionals and experts.

Mr
Donald CHOI Wun-hing, Executive Director and CEO of Chinachem Group, comments, “Chinachem Group has
always been dedicated to the improvement of our community and environment, with
the aim of transforming Hong Kong into a more liveable city. We believe that
applying the age-friendly concept to smart community and housing design can
redefine our way of living. In order to achieve this goal, Chinachem will incorporate age-friendly
design features into future development projects and the four major criteria of
these design features include space planning, barrier-free facilities, building
height, and accessibility of community facilities.“

The full day
conference brought together high-level professionals and experts from
architecture, academia, science, social enterprises, senior care providers, and
environmental groups to discuss views on building and promoting age-friendly
community as well as touch upon best practices of sustainable ageing-community
in daily lives.

Mr CHEUNG Hau-wai,
Chairman of HKGBC, says “Transforming our city into an age-friendly sustainable
environment shall be a collective effort. By working closely with the
government and the industry, the Council has been striving diligently for the
sustainable development of our built environment. BEAM Plus, the green building
rating tool certified by the Council, takes into account for barrier-free and
universal accessibility as core qualities of a green building. We are proud to
see increasing number of green buildings as it is a good indicator of the
city’s progress in migrating to a sustainable city. To date over 360 million
square feet of buildings’ gross floor area have registered under BEAM Plus.”

To this end, Chinachem
Group will take the lead in working with Hong
Kong Institute of Urban Design and other organisations to advocate for the establishment
of Hong Kong’s first age-friendly building guidelines suitable for private
housing in the 21^st century.

For a full list of speakers and conference rundown, please
refer to https://www.hkgbc.org.hk/eng/events/20190329_ChinachemConference.aspx

About Chinachem Group

Chinachem Group is a leading property developer in Hong Kong,
with a real estate pedigree stretching back to the 1960s.  Today, we develop residential, commercial,
retail and industrial buildings for sale or lease, as well as hotels for
operation.

The values of integrity, accountability, teamwork,
innovation, harmony and win-win drive our operations and ensure that the Group uphold
her commitment to bring value to her stakeholders and give back to the
communities in which Chinachem operates.

Chinachem undertakes a digital transformation–one that fully
harnesses the power of digital technology to rethink every aspect of the
organization.  Riding on this, Chinachem
is building upon her rich heritage in forward-thinking manner to forge the next
century of success.

About the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC)

The Hong Kong Green
Building Council Limited (HKGBC) is a non-profit, member led organisation
established in 2009 and has become a public body under the Prevention of
Bribery Ordinance since 2016. The HKGBC’s vision is to help save the planet and
improve the wellbeing of the people of Hong Kong by transforming the city into
a greener built environment. The Founding Members of the HKGBC include the Construction Industry Council (CIC), the
Business Environment Council (BEC), the BEAM Society Limited (BSL) and the
Professional Green Building Council (PGBC). Its mission is to lead market
transformation by advocating green policies to the Government; introducing
green building practices to all stakeholders; setting design, construction and
management standards for the building profession; and promoting green living to
the people of Hong Kong.