Sponsoring Agency: Hong Kong Green Building Council
Type of Fund: Challenges, Competitions or Prizes
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/07/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) is committed to helping Hong Kong’s building and construction industry to decarbonise and advance towards net zero emissions – a monumental and complex challenge in a subtropical, high-rise, high-density urban context. In support of the WorldGBC’s global “Advancing Net Zero” project and the HKSAR Government’s recent announcement of striving to achieve carbon neutrality in Hong Kong before 2050, HKGBC is proudly organising the first-ever “Advancing Net Zero” Ideas Competition in Hong Kong.
“Advancing Net Zero” (ANZ) is WorldGBC’s global project which aims to promote and support the acceleration of net zero carbon buildings to 100% by 2050. Under this project, WorldGBC calls for business, organisations, cities, states and regions to reach net zero operating emissions in their portfolios by 2030 and for all buildings to be net zero in operation by 2050. In a more recent “Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront” report, WorldGBC also calls for at least 40% less embodied carbon for new buildings, infrastructure and renovations by 2030 and to advocate for net zero operational and embodied carbon by 2050.
Objectives
The Competition aims to generate ideas and solutions, enhance learning and knowledge sharing, and to push the boundaries to design future-ready buildings and retrofit existing building stock to advance net zero emissions economy by 2050.
The objectives of the Competition are:
To drive professional organisations, technology providers, academia etc. to build up their capacity to support the building sector to advance towards carbon neutrality;
To generate new ideas and solutions for the building sector;
To accelerate the building sector to adopt and develop low/zero carbon design and technologies; and
To stimulate the review of current regulations and code of practices to facilitate the adoption and development of low/zero carbon design and technologies where appropriate.
Themes
Under the key theme of ‘Advancing Net Zero’, the Competition seeks to address the following sub-themes:
Zero Carbon and Ultra-Energy Efficient
Embodied Carbon
Healthy and Sustainable
Prize Information
The winner of each Competition category, namely Future Building and Existing Building, will be awarded a grand prize of HK$300,000 with a plaque and certificate.
A total of HK$600,000 prize money will be shared amongst the remaining eligible shortlisted entries for both categories — FOUR (4) to SIX (6) in total. Each shortlisted entry will also receive a plaque and certificate.
Criteria
No restriction on age and the origin of teams.
The Competition is open internationally to multi-disciplinary organisation-based teams. A Submission made by an Entrant to the Competition can be a collaborative effort representing the work of a team of individuals from one or more organisations. Team members can be based locally and internationally, but the registrant on the registration form must be a registered local organisation in Hong Kong.
Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged which shall include (but not limited to) architects, designers, engineers, product and/or technology innovators, academics, etc.
More information at: https://anzideascompetition.hkgbc.org.hk/
