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EDITOR’S VIEW
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“Green” – this short word has become a
synonym for nature and eco-related topics.
Today, the word “Green” can coexist with
everything from: merchandise, fashion,
technology, food to architecture. We’ve heard
of the Green Building concept for some time
now, but not everyone knows what exactly
makes one building accepted and certified
as a green building. Let’s read the in-depth
details in this 14th issue of 8HOURS.
This volume also feature an internationally
recognised green building certification system
called LEED in Green Style column. It’s quite
interesting to know how the measurement
system works and which one of the buildings
in Thailand has been LEED qualified. But
since LEED is not the answer for all, a group
of Thai architects and its alliances have decided
to form a team to set a Thai building standard
under “Thai Green Building Institute.” Find out
the differences and similarities between the
two standards in Possibility column. Also in the
column My Space+My Design, we take you to
a renovated head office of PTT Thailand which
is modern and inspired by the five elements of
nature. The company has put the “Green” policy
into practice for more than 30 years.
In fact, the matter of who is certified in
the Green building standard isn’t important as
much as how they can maintain the standard
and make it sustainable. At the end of the day,
the good causes will return to everyone living on
and sharing this mother earth. Don’t you think?
Chakrit Vorachacreyanan
Executive Vice President
ROCKWORTH PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
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I Saloni
12-17 Apr�|�Milan
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CONTENTS
VOL. 14 April – June 2011
3 EDITOR’S VIEW
5 RADAR
I Saloni | BuildTech’11 |
The Office Exhibition |
Interior Lifestyle |
Adobe® Design
Achievement Awards
6 IN FOCUS
House with Balls
8 GREEN STYLE
Green Building Effect
10 MY SPACE + MY DESIGN
PTT Little Big Change
16 POSSIBILITY
TGBI : Green Hope for the Future
20 UNLOCK
Designed by Me
22 GISMO
HandStand | Aroma USB |
BenQ DV S11
23 ROCKWORTH
Green Office
8HOURS is quarterly magazine, published by
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Bangkok 10320 Thailand
Tel +66.2246.8888 Ext. 212 l Fax + 66.2247.8899
www.rockworth.com
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To honor Italian furniture and design
with a worldwide celebration of the
50th Anniversary of I Saloni, this year’s
exhibit ion and event wil l exclusively
bring to life design masterpieces under
the concept of “50 Years Young”. You’ll
be able to see, touch, and try out all the
best that domestic furnishing of every
type has to offer. The fair also provides
an opportunity for reflection on design,
on the world of industry that has made it
all possible, on creativity and on Italian
culture.
www.cosmit.it
BuildTech’11
3-8 May |�Bangkok
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If you’re looking for household materials
and construction solutions, this maybe
one best option. BuildTech’11 is the largest
building and architectural exposition held
in SouthEast Asia that offers you from
electrical appliances, finishing & interior
decoration, future living products and
services, to related activities.
www.buildtechexpo.com
The Office Exhibition
17-19 May |�Dubai
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Prepare for the biggest office fit-out
and design exhibition in the Middle East.
The Office Exhibition provides a perfect
platform for local and international office
designers, suppliers and manufacturers
to embrace the architecture and design
community, including new product
launches, innovations, workshops and
many more.
www.theofficeexhibition.com
Interior Lifestyle
1-3 Jun | Tokyo
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Here comes the leading “design-oriented”
trade fair for the Japanese high-end
interior market, providing latest products
and interior trends from around the world.
You’ll be able to shop and explore the cutting
edge of Japanese lifestyle trends where
sophisticated urban living and affection
towards nature intersects.
www.interior-lifestyle.com
Adobe® Design Achievement
Awards
Deadline Jun 24, 2011
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The 2011 Adobe® Design
Achievement Awards is organising
a competition that gives higher
education student and faculty from
around the world opportunities to
propel their career of technology
and the creative arts. An entry from
individual or group must showcase
traditional media, interactive media,
website and mobile analytics or
video and motion. Cash prizes
will be awarded in Taipei during
the Icograda World Congress.
Submissions close June 24, 2011.
www.adobeawards.com
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RADAR
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IN FOCUS
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HOUSE WITH BALLSTHE SPHERE FUNCTION
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This is perhaps a truly stunning moment for
Asian architects for many of their works have
come into the world’s spotlight and received
internationally applause.
November of last year, Gurjit Singha
Matharoo of Matharoo Associates, was one
of the emerging Asian architects to deliver
his speech at the Bangkok Art and Culture
Centre (BACC). The renowned Indian
architect has just won the ‘Best House in
the World’ Award by Architectural Review
magazine for his design called, “House
with Balls”.
“House with Balls” – Matharoo’s
latest work – has undoubtedly boasted his
talent and soul to the world as an unusual
concrete piece of architecture has combined
modernism and Indian spirit in terms of form
and space in perfection. Began with an idea
of a client who is the owner of an aquarium
shop and a fish breeder, part of the house
was designed to be functioned as a place to
breed fish as well as to serve as a weekend
retreat. Its design is centred around four fish
breeding tanks and an observation room
which could double up as a living room.
Matharoo diminished the complex part until
every aspect of this design is set out to be
very functional, delicate and yet simple. Apart
from the long living room enclosed by the
glass tanks, the layout of the house offers
several differing views of the water bodies
whether from the bedroom space or from
any other rooms. Continuous horizontal slots
are carved into both walls, without glazing.
Instead, a system of pressed galvanised steel
shutters can be adjusted to let in light and air,
transforming the character of the space. The
shutters are operated by a complex system of
wire pulleys counterweighted with concrete
ball baubles – the cheapest counterweights
possible. The balls were specially cast by
hand and their random vertical movements
give nothing but highlight to the place. The
design doesn’t overlook the Indian ways of
life. It provides a huge outdoor space for
cattle farming and gardening as well. There
is no doubt this “House with Balls” gives us
such an adventurous and lively idea together
with function and intellectually aesthetics
in unison.
GREEN STYLE
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LEED Platinum office tower
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Many architectural developers have never been
much aware of the fact that misuse of construction
resources can damage environment and inappro-
priate design can increase waste consumption
of energy, including water, oil and electricity.
Until the world encounters with global warming,
“Green building” trend has gained more interest
from many organisations. The concept is a way
to promote themselves as “green” entrepre-
neurs as well as helps thecompanies save
budget on energy. Right! We’re talking about
the green building standard, LEED, which has
been accredited worldwide.
The LEED stands for “Leadership in
Energy and Environment Design” and has been
developed by USGBC (US Green Building
Council) in the United States as a rating
system device to evaluate the environmental
performance of a building and encourage
market transformation towards sustainable
design. Today, there are more than 20,000
registered projects. The LEED has various
certified standards; including LEED for New
Construction, LEED for Existing Building and
its project management, LEED for Homes,
Core & Shell and Commercial Interiors. The
LEED rating system is now in its Version 2.2
that will be using for new projects for at least
1-2 years before launching LEED Version 3
to update its standards.
In order to get the LEED certification as
a Green Building, there are 6 major areas to be
considered:
1. Sustainable sites Focus on
redeveloping of old buildings – 14 points
2. Water Efficiency Reduce the amount
of water use and encourage smarter waste water
treatment technology – 5 points
3. Energy and Atmosphere Enhance
comfort, convenience, and clean atmosphere
of the building; the use of efficient appliances,
systems and lighting in order to decrease
internal sources of pollution in the building
– 17 points
4. Materials and Resources Promote
less impact on the environment in the long run,
the reduction of waste, as well as reuse and
recycling – 13 points
5. Indoor Environment Quality
Promote the use of optional materials, for
examples carpet, paint or wood composite,
instead of natural resources – 15 points
6. Innovation and Design Process
Bonus points for projects that use a LEED
Accredited Professional on the team and also
use new and innovative technologies – 5 points
Today, there are 5 LEED-certified
building projects in Thailand:
• Energy Complex - LEED Platinum (1 of 6 buildings to get the Platinum certification in Asia) • ISB Cultural Centre - LEED Gold • InterfaceFLOR Mfg, Facility. Ext - LEED Certified (the first building in Thailand to get LEED certification) • Colgate-Palmolive Mfg. Facility (Thailand) - LEED Silver • USAID RDMA Office, Bangkok - LEED Silver
The number of points the project earns
determines the level of LEED Certification
the project receives. LEED certification is
available in four levels: Certified: 26-32
points, Silver: 33-38 points, Gold: 39-51
points, and Platinum: 52-69 points.
In fact, there are no difference between
six of the above criteria and ways that environ-
mentally-friendly people are implementing
at all. Achieving the LEED certification maybe
the best way to demonstrate that a building
project is truly “green”, but as long as all
parties – an architect, a building owner and
developers – are truly determined to stick to
the philosophyof using the optimum selections
of materials, design techniques and construction
methodology to create buildings that minimise
the negative impacts on the environment and
promote environment sustainability, it can be
counted as our own “green building” standard
as well.
Caldwell Toyota-Scion, LEED Gold the
first and only LEED-certified automobile
dealership in Arkansas
MY SPACE + MY DESIGN
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Office building renovation is nothing new to
many companies, but not to PTT Public
Company Limited. For 20 years, the company’s
headquarters has never been under any major
renovation due to limitations of the office area,
numbers of staff and cost conscious reasons.
Since the government is its major share holder,
the entire budget has to be reasonable and
wise-spending. Once the budget was approved,
it’s time for PTT’s big change. Mr. Pitipan
Tepartimargorn, Senior Executive Vice President
Human Resources & Organization Excellence,
PTT Public Company Limited Rolled the story.
“This project was initiated when all of
the staff at PTT, including PTT Exploration
and Production Public Company Limited
moved to a newly built office building called
Enco (Energy Complex) Now there would be
more space for us. The 20-year-old building
where they used to work, located behind
the Enco, was too old and too small for
2,000 staff. With these reasons, we decided
to renovate the building in order to create
better working atmosphere as well as happier
working hours,” he said.
Originally, there are two buildings in the
PTT’s head office; the 24-storey building
which is home to PTT’s headquarters and the
8-storey building, belongs to PTT Exploration
and Production Public Company Limited,
which can be doubled to 16-storey. When the
renovation is complete, it is expected to be
about 40-storey workspace available. Thus,
interior designing companies are being called
to pitch their ideas and concepts for the proper
PTT building renovation.
“Our question is how we can get the
maximum use of the space and make it more
flexible, so that our staff can have more space
to feel at ease. Plus, we want to divide all of
our departments systematically and give them
a particular space, for example, business and
marketing division can be sited at the back
building while the front building can be a
workspace for corporate division. All the
pitching interior companies need to present
us with their concept and perspective plans
for the building’s halls, meeting rooms and
office studios. After all the pitching process,
we finally chose Humanist group, as they didn’t
force us to change too much to become
someone else. Some companies presented
us something that is too modern and
sometimes it requires too much of inventing
Mr. Pitipan Tepartimargorn
Senior Executive Vice President
Human Resources & Organization Excellence,
PTT Public Company Limited
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new characters which we see we are going
to lose our own identity. Reasonable cost is
another concern.”
Mr. Pitipan continues that this renovation
does help solving many problems, especially
meeting room shortage. There are a total of
70 meeting rooms with one on each floor.
On the 12nd and the 13rd floors are meeting
hub where a large and a small meeting room
together with a training room located. The hub
is decorated in modern style using glasses
and composite wood which allow staff to spot
outside scenery. He also points out that the
selection of the light color paint and modern
furniture will surely create a better working
environment.
“We’ve got a very positive feedback from
our fellow staff. Now we have more space and
new office furniture which give us more
comfort. The small partitions also give us
privacy at the same time we don’t feel too
cramped. This truly serves our need. It
obviously shows that the renovation does
affect working performance. When people
feel good just like they are working at home,
then they would be more enthusiastic about
their work. This is the result we wish to get
from our staffs as we brought them to involve
in this renovation. For example, we let them
vote for the best furniture. We’re lucky
because our staff like the furniture, and most
of all, they are ergonomically designed and
function very well.”
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Besides having a reputation on their good
work and responsibility, Humanist is the interior
design company that is very concerned for
environment. Their strong identity includes
applying this philosophy into the renovation
work at the PTT.
“PTT is the organisation that focuses
on the potential of human resource as well as
developing good works, so we came to them
with the idea of renovating for promoting
good and quality works,” Runglawan Ittharat,
Managing Director of Humanist recalled.
“From limited space, we need to well
manage it as well as do it wisely in order to
create better atmosphere for working. There
should be spaces or corners for staff to sit,
chat and brainstorm. Let say, we are trying
to create more public and green spaces. We
connect the 2 buildings together, linking it
with a grand concept called “the 5th Element”.
Since PTT is the company that works on natural
energies which are related to 4 elements:
Earth, Water, Wind and Fire, the company then
represents wisdom. That means the company
knows how to use and make use of the 4
elements wisely to make a great contribution to
the humanity. So, we represent PTT’s valuable
staff as the 5th element which is Gold.”
In terms of interior design, Mr. Sethachart
Suekwattana and Mr. Pongsit Teerarat, two
forefront interior designers of Humanist explain
interestedly that the building itself is originally
eco-friendly constructed. There is only system
design that needs to be working on. So, they
started to work on lighting infrastructure,
light bulb selection, and air conditioning
system which are changed from assembled
air conditioner to separated air conditioners in
order to save energy. The interior decoration
focuses mainly on applying natural texture, for
example, the main entrance is designed with
flows of the 4 elements that meet each other
in the middle of the circle where the gold
element lies, while the working space on each
floor is designed to represent 4 elements by
using 4 colours around screens and partitions.
This would make the staffs who sit in the area
the gold element.
“We decided to use gold colour on all
signage and logos to represent the whole
concept. We believe that when the 5th element
is combined with the other 4 elements, they
will create good things and good works. We
picture PTT as a kind executive, as a leading
company that represents the country, so PTT
corporate image must be highly respectable.
The design should not be too fashionable
which comes and goes, but it should be
something permanent. Some private spaces or
areas such as reception area, staff’s relaxing
corner, library and medical centre can be
colourful while the main hall or office studios
are painted in darker colours to represent
natural texture of wood and stones.”
Mr. Sethachart adds that PTT emphasises
a lot on each staff’s individual working space
so the layout should be well-planned. “We use
their old model as a reference, And carefully
design for each working station. For example,
we decide to hang the monitor instead of
placing it on working desk so that it can be
freely moved while the CPU is placed under
the desk. With this design, it allows staff to
have more space on their table. This is also
the outstanding character of Rockworth
furniture that answers what we need
as well as their good selection of quality
materials.” Little Big Change seems to be a
big challenge for the designer team. However,
judging from the better atmosphere under the
same old dignified feeling of PTT, it is worth
for the better working environment.
Humanist Co. Ltd.Sethachat Sukwathana– Interior Designer
Pongsit Teerarat– Interior Designer
Runglawan Itharat– Managing Director
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In architectural field, although LEED or the
Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design is internationally recognized green
building certification system, there is an effort
to set a Thai building standard under “Thai
Green Building Institute”. Why? We’ll talk
this out with Mr. Thaweejit Chantarasakha,
President of Association of Siamese
Architects and a founder of Thai Green
Building Institute.
“European or Japanese outfits just
sometimes don’t fit Thais”, explained
Mr. Thaweejit Chantarasakha. “The US LEED
and Japan’s CASBEE are good, but not
100% suitable for Thailand. We have big
differences in terms of geography and state
of society compared to those countries. Then
we thought among our group that maybe
it’s time to create our own green building
assessment standard to promote the use of
environment-friendly materials that are locally
produced for Thai architectures. So that,
boards of members are formed and founded
the ‘Thai Green Building Institute’ since then”,
he added.
Thai Green Building Institute” TGBI
was estab l ished in 200 9 under the
collaborations of the Association of Siamese
Architects under Royal Patronage and the
Engineering Institute of Thailand under Royal
Patronage by academic group of people from
government and private sectors as a board of
committee to develop “Thai’s Rating of Energy
and Environmental Sustainability (TREES)”.
TREES is aimed to set standard criteria
for building construction and structuring
renovation like air conditioning system and
building envelope design for building of any
organisations or companies that wants to
be earth-friendly. It’s also covered residential
accommodations in terms of interior design
as well as used building in order to help every
Mr. Thaweejit Chantarasakha
President of Association of Siamese
Architects
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building and house to become green which
help developing the country sustainable.
“TREES are different from other
measurements in those Western countries
where state of society and culture aren’t
counted but emphasising on mechanical
point of view. To demonstrate, a pavilion at
the temple won’t make any grades at LEED
while in my opinion, it should pass the test
regarding to its airy, comfortable and energy
saving qualities. However, I’m not sure what
level it is. There’s just something that doesn’t
match with their criteria. Besides the state of
society and culture that we add up, economy
situations, social conditions and transportation
are also concerned. These are messages that
we would like to convey today. Of course, it
may not be 100% perfect but I hope it’s going
to be developed and become practical for
today’s society and era”, he said.
TREES’s criteria are divided into 8 categories :
1. Building Management (3 points)
2. Site and Landscape (16 points)
3. Water Conservation (6 points)
4. Energy and Atmosphere (20 points)
5. Materials and Resources (13 points)
6. Indoor Environmental Quality (17 points)
7. Environmental (5 points)
8. Green Innovation (5 points)
With 4 levels of certifications : Certified
(30 – 37 points), Silver (38 – 45 points),
Gold (46 – 60) and Platinum (61 plus).
“The criteria here are not counted as
regulations. There’s a thin line between them.
Sometimes it’s about business, for example,
many companies now want to promote their
green credentials because it helps them
build a good corporate image. But what will
happen if these companies won’t keep the
standard afterwards? Sure, there will be
a lot of complaints firing to us, asking if they
deserved the certification. This kind of case
also takes place in other countries. But in the
end, we must keep in mind of our goal that
this is mainly for the benefit of the public”,
he added.
Today, the Thai Green Building Institute
is actively promoting its criteria assessment
and standard by organising green building
seminars in order to educate architects,
students and other people. Further information
and criteria assessment and standard can be
downloaded at www.asa.co.th.
“Green is not just a trend. It is a must
and should be applied to our everyday’s life.
I believe we all know what is good and what
is bad. All you have to do is be responsible for
what you do and do what you can. This alone
can help create “Green” environment in our
society,” said Mr.Thaweejit.
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We all can help reduce carbon emissions and save money for the company by going green at work. As we spend 8Hours a day at work, some small changes in our habits could protect the environment:
1. Eliminate the use of disposables in office, for example, you can bring your reusable mug and dishware to work or there could be a policy to provide filtered drinking water to reduce bottled-water waste.
2. Use carpool or travel on public transport. Telecommuting, e.g. video conferencing, is also help reduces amount of employee travel.
3. Switch off the computer screen when you are not at the desk for extended periods. Peripheral equipment such as printers and scanners need not be constantly plugged in if they are only used occasionally.
4. Switch off the lights and air-conditioners when they are not in use. Also choose energy saving light bulb.
5. Grow plants at home and at your office to improve indoor air quality. Interior air can sometimes be contaminated with toxic chemicals such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from furniture, carpeting and paint.
6. When purchasing furniture for the office, opt for pieces which are not made of composite materials and are easy to assemble and disas- semble to increase the ease of recyclables at the end of their useful lives.
7. If your office is planning to upgrade the furniture, you can donate the used furniture (which is still in good condition) to a charitable organization.
8. Implement a recycling system in the office. Set up recycling corner or boxes for paper, plastics, glass, etc.
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