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After contributing to the creation of BEAM Professional (BEAM PRO) examination questions, and the BEAM training materials, Kelcroft's director John Herbert was one of the first to receive the BEAM Professional award in Hong Kong.
Herbert said "The role of the BEAM Professional will be to drive green building, creating innovative and energy wise built environment solutions that lower the environmental impact of our building stock in Hong Kong and the region."
Having a BEAM Professional on your team also helps the BEAM green building certificate because applicants earn one credit under the Hong Kong BEAM green building rating tool.
Our director, Mr John Herbert
is a member of BEAM Faculty, BEAM Technical Committee, BEAM Technical
Review Panel, chairman of the
BEAM Framework and Innovation Panel and provides BEAM Plus consultancy
advisory services
for sustainable green building and certification.
Sustainability
Sustainability is the only solution for the future of brands Herbert said, businesses need to embrace the future maze of green labels.
Green Building Planning
Whether you require BEAM certification or simply want to build an environmentally friendly building, the most important step, and mistakes, are made at the initial planning stage.
Too often the necessary expertise, including engineers are engaged too late in the process after plans are drawn, and approvals obtained.
Looking forward, the entire construction industry needs to change the way firms are engaged and compensated.
If architects are compensated based solely on the drawings produced, of course, the rest of the design team will be left behind. Once the drawings are signed off, and key decisions made that is NOT the right time to involve the E&M engineers, its already too late Herbert said.
"....the entire design team, contractors, and specialists needs to be engaged and involved in the development process from day one."
The entire design team, contractors, and specialists need to be engaged and involved in the project development process from day one because it's more cost effective. The impact of design rework increases as the process rubbles on. Modifications that could yield positive environmental impacts are too often ignored because the building plans are already approved, and the costs, and effort to go back and change approved plans could be considerable.
We must value our finite material resources encouraging more design with less
material. In turn that means compensating the design team, contractors
and specialists in newand different ways, not as present based
solely basing payments and fees on the total contract value.
What Next?
Call our John Herbert in our Hong Kong office today +852 2335 9830