LEED Existing Building

Operation and Maintenance

– TAIPEI 101 Experience

Cathy Yang

Vice President Taipei Financial Center Corp.

Green Building Congress 2012 30 -31 Oct. Hyderabad, India

TAIPEI 101 TOWER

TAIPEI 101 MALL

TAIPEI 101 OBSERVATORY

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GREEN TECHNOLOGY

Non-reflective Double Low-E Glass Curtain Wall

Energy Management and Control System

Garbage Collection System Rain Water Collection

Compared to 2007 EUI, 2008-2011 4 years Saved 54.23 mil KWH power = US$4.4 millions Reduced 36,877 tons carbon emission

*EUI Energy Use Intensity

ENERGY SAVING – whole complex

Year 2007 2008 2009

Consumption(KWH) 95,820,200 96,048,000 90,993,080

Area in Use M2 318,372 339,707 344,915

EUI (KWH/M2) 300.97 282.74 263.81

Saving from previous year

6.1% 6.7%

2011/2007 20% saving

2008 & 2009 Total Investment US$391,000; Saving: US$1.5 million

2010 2011

89,858,598 85,103,600

346,396 351,929

259.41 241.82

1.7% 6.8%

*EUI Energy Use Intensity

ENERGY SAVING – Office Tower

Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Consumption(KWH) 41,140,800 41,548,800 41,167,280 41,058,398 41,880,000

Area in Use M2 141,094 162,866 170,395 171,064 178,131

EUI (KWH/M2) 291.59 255.11 241.60 240.02 235.11

Saving from previous year

12.5% 5.3% 0.7% 2.1%

2011/2007 19% saving

• Public power saving from 2007 to 2011 is 26% ! • Energy Star performance rating for 2010 reached 86 !

• LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

• CS – Core and Shell

• NC – New Construction

• EBOM – Existing Building Operation and Maintenance

2009 version

• Commercial Interior

• Neighborhood

• Hotel

USGBC LEED SYSTEM

• LEED is US Green Building Council’s standard

• LEED has been for 12 years and took off in 2008

• LEED is the most recognized rating system in the world

LEED EBOM POINTS

1. Sustainable Site 26

2. Water Efficiency 14

3. Energy and Atmosphere 35

4. Materials and Resources 10

5. Indoor Environmental Quality 15

6. Innovation in Operations 6

7. Regional Priority Credits 4

Total: 110

Category and Points

- Platinum 80-110

- Gold 60-79

- Silver 50-59

- Certified 40-49

Level

- Prerequisites 9 331K

- Low / no cost 32 13K

- Moderate cost 4 600K

- High cost 6 909K

Total: 51 projects

Actual cost: < US$2,000,000

Projects Identified

ü June 2009 LEED Registration ü Whole 2010 Alteration projects and documentation ü Nov. 2010 – Jan. 2011 Performance Period ü April 2011 Submission ü July 2011 Achieved LEED EBOM Platinum

TAIPEI 101 LEED CERTIFICATION

PERFORMANCE

Water Efficiency (WE)

- Decrease potable water usage by 30%

- 625 SM of on-site landscape uses 100% rainwater

Energy and Atmosphere (EA)

- Over 30% better in energy performance than average building

- Monitoring and recording 40% of total energy usage

Sustainable Site (SS)

- All parking spaces are in basement

- 84% building occupiers take public transportation to work every day.

Costly

Item

Material and Resources (MR)

- Waste management program recycle rate up to 61%

- Low-mercury and no-mercury lamp only 58.5 picograms (standard is 90)

- Failed on purchasing: stationery and food

Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ)

- Utilizes CRI* approved vacuum cleaners, average score of 1.61 Orderly Spotlessness.

- Over 65% of tenant occupied space enjoy exterior view

- Smoke free and applies high levels of outdoor filtered air

PERFORMANCE

Costly

Item

Existing Building Operation & Maintenance

TAIPEI 101 LEED CERTIFICATION

- Only 5% are Platinum

- Only 2 Platinum buildings are over

100,000 s.m.

LEED EBOM is the trend!

LANDLORD’S CONSIDERATION

Benefits: - Actual Cost Saving - Third party verification / health

checkup - Competitive Advantage in Leasing - Corporate Image - Corporate Social Responsibility

Challenges: - Shareholders Endorsement - Allocate Sufficient Funding - Staff Commitment - Tenant Participation - Quality of Consultants

FOR LEASING

Tenant’s Benefits:

- Actual Operational Cost Saving

- Better Indoor Environment good for work efficiency

- Good PR and feel good for employees

Current Status in Asia:

- Governments have yet to request such standards

- Tenants love the idea

- MNCs have yet to make it a relocation criteria

- Landlords need to sell the benefits to tenants better

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS

- Top down determination

- Management capability

- Sufficient Funding

CHALLENGES

ü Alteration work

ü Cost issue

ü Time issue

ü Tenant coordination

ü Convince the top

ü Establish good relations

ü Goodies / gifts

LEED-EBOM

- Benchmarking and improving

- Identify low cost / no cost items

- Setting policy and management rules

TAIPEI 101 TOWER IS

World’s Tallest Green Building

and is getting

Greener !