Buildings account for almost half of global carbon emissions, thus contributing to climate change. While designing and constructing new sustainable buildings help to reduce our future emissions, there is an existing crop of buildings in their midlife, whose efficiencies have dwindled, and which continue to produce high carbon emissions.
Sustainable Urban Renewal is an endeavour to upgrade these buildings through improved architecture, and integration of technology to improve their performance, and thus reduce their emissions. This talk addresses the technologies and building solutions to attain net zero and super low energy status, while meeting decarbonisation goals.
The talk also evaluates the business case for sustainability, and answers the following questions: What is the value of going green? How can we ensure good returns on equity for sustainability projects? How do low-carbon buildings save money – and save the planet? How do we measure the dollar value of sustainability-enhanced projects?
Tan Szue Hann, MBA, MArch, is an award-winning architect, sustainability professional and business strategist in sustainable development. Hann is Head of Sustainability and Deputy General Manager, Sustanable Urban Renewal, at Keppel (Real Estate), Singapore. He is also the Chairman of Sustainability at the Singapore Institute of Architects. Hann graduated with an M Arch and BA Arch (First Class Honours) from NUS, with a visiting fellowship to UCLA in 2007, and an MBA with Distinction from Northumbria University in 2022. He also holds a Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy from Harvard Business School.
Hann is also an appointed World Cities Summit Young Leader, and BCA Built Environment Young Leader, and was Singapore’s 2015-16 BCA-SGBC Young Green Architect of the Year. He has spoken in numerous conferences including SWITCH, the UN Asia Pacific Urban Forum, and COP25 in Madrid. At Keppel, he heads both corporate sustainability and the Sustainable Urban Renewal product team at the Real Estate Division.
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