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Grand Central Plaza

Grand Central Plaza was awarded Hanson Outstanding Award (Office Building). The Plaza initiated "Excellence in Green Sustainability & Companion in Community Education" by setting up a "Green Improvement Unit" to save energy and take care of environmental issues; forming an "Energy Management Unit" to formulate & implement energy management strategy, monitor and review targets periodically and obtained good results in energy saving. In the past 4 years (from July 2012 to June 2016, baseline year is July 2011 to June 2012) , 17,000,000kWh power consumption, approximately equivalent to indirect 9,200 tonnes CO2 GHG emissions, has been saved through large-scaled chiller plants improvement project, installation of real time monitoring chemical water treatment systems and power performance optimizers. Besides, energy saving lightings were widely adopted in common areas like lift lobbies, corridors, lightboxes, etc., so as to minimize the power consumption without affecting the illuminance level.

In addition, office owners and tenants are encouraged to participate in the free-of-charge Energy Audit provides by "Energy Management Unit" which they could installed energy saving apparatus according to the recommendations. Green Education Center was also set up for promoting the environmental protection concepts to the community including jointly organized environmental workshops as well as Green Life Tours with different organizations.

In future, the Plaza will continuously study more innovative energy saving measures to enhance the energy management.

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