1.000 delegates from ministries and provincial authorities, national and international organizations and experts, building and construction companies and professionals and academic institutions joined the Vietnam Green Building Week 2020 from 9-11 December 2020.
The Ministry of Construction of Vietnam and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) co-organized the event which was supported by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and other institutions.
PEEB held a workshop on Green Building Financing Mechanisms, conducted by IFC and GIZ. This was the first platform of this kind to initiate a continuous dialogue between green developers and banks in the presence of the State Bank of Vietnam, the Ministry of Construction and key finance institutions. PEEB presented the concept for the development of a national green housing programme for mid-income families with support from the French Agency for Development AFD and GIZ. PEEB also presented the Low carbon building and sustainable cities pilot initiative supported by the French Agency for Ecological Transition ADEME under PEEB.
PEEB also supported the Vietnam Green Urban Institute in the national Green Architectural Design Student Awards 2020 competition which was held on December 11th as part of Green Building Week. Seventy graduate students from eleven universities across the country took part in the competition this year, submitting a total of 50 projects on a variety of themes including housing, industry, culture, tourism and education.
The national University of Civil Engineering graduate, Doan Van Thuong won the first prize for his design for a floating Village in a mangrove forest on the Giao Thuy Estuary. The Vice Minister Le Quang Hung of the Ministry of Construction and the Director Kia Fariborz from GIZ´s PEEB component in Vietnam gave the rewards to the winners which were honoured at a ceremony held by the Vietnam Green Urban Institute and GIZ.
The Council for the selection of the winners applied general green architectural design criteria and the PEEB criteria for Energy Efficient Buildings, which sets the standards for green buildings as a mitigation action under Vietnam’s Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement.