Global Summit on the Sustainable Built Environment Jointly Organized by Tongji and Stanford Successfully held in Shanghai
Fri, Aug 20, 2010
Global Summit on Sustainable Built Environment (Better Building, Better World) is jointly organized by Tongji-SEM and the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE), Stanford University from August 16 – 20, 2010 at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel in conjunction with the 2010 World Expo. Mr. Paul TAYLOR, the Principal Commercial Officer of U.S. Consulate General Shanghai Commercial Section, Dr. Annie WU, the standing member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and the Vice President Mr. Chen Xiaolong preside over the opening ceremony.
There are around 200 guests from more than 10 countries taking part in the Summit. More than 40 academic experts and professionals make speeches, expressing their views on how to maintain a sustainable built environment from different perspectives, including Prof. Martin FISCHER, the director of CIFE, Mr. Phillip BERNSTEIN, the vice president of Autodesk AEC Solutions, Dr. Ben SCHWEGLER, the senior vice president and chief scientist of Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, Prof. Wu Zhiqiang, the chief planner of Shanghai Expo 2010, and the general designers and operators for Saudi Pavilion, Japan pavilion, Finland Pavilion and so on. Prof. Wang Guangbin, Prof. Le Yun, Prof. Zhu Dajian of Tongji-SEM make speeches on the summit.
According to Prof. Wang Guangbin, the key organizer of the Summit, the research and practice of sustainable development is crucial to the construction industry in China, and will have crucial influence to the rest of the world. He hopes the summit can call for global attention to and action with scalable proven and emerging policies, metrics, methods, practices, technologies, and opportunities to mitigated climate change in the next decade and beyond.
The Summit gets great supports from professional organizations at home and abroad, including the China Academy of Building Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, AIA, AAC, CIOB, building SMART, ASCE, Sustainable Built Environment, AACE, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects etc.
The press show great interests and report the summit, including LAGOO CHINA, FAR2000, ESBUILD, HSE365, ChinaBIM, earthscan, ICMA, COI88, and CCN.
