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The United Nations Environment Programme-Sustainable

Buildings and Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI) in partnership with the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore

(BCA) is conducting a regional status report in South-East Asia within the framework of the global status reporting on

sustainable buildings, launched by UNEP-SBCI. This regional status reporting in South-East Asia will collate the

current status and trends from sustainable buildings

initiatives in the region, with the aim of publishing the Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia.

The Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building

Policies in South-East Asia will provide an overview of the policies and initiatives put in place in various South-East

Asian countries on promoting the development of sustainable buildings. The report is being conducted by

BCA’s Centre for Sustainable Buildings and Construction (CSBC).

The objectives are to provide:

• An overview of sustainable building trends, policies and buildings in South-East Asia, with a focus on: Brunei

Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia,

Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.• An insight into building classifications of sustainable

buildings in the region.• A survey of existing regional studies, institutions and

experts involved in these studies.• A platform to build up a knowledge infrastructure on

sustainable buildings which will facilitate the ongoing

process of data collection and support collective learning in South-East Asia.

Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia

Insights in trends and policies on sustainable buildings in South-East Asia

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The Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies

in South-East Asia aims to profile the country’s sustainable building policies according to the four category classification

of policy instruments developed by UNEP-SBCI [source UNEP-SBCI publication: “Assessment of Policy Instruments

for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Buildings”, 2007]. These are:

• Category 1: Support, information and voluntary action.

• Category 2: Fiscal instruments and incentives.• Category 3: Regulatory and control instruments.

• Category 4: Economic and market-based instruments.

The Regional Status Report will be developed in several

steps, in which two Regional Workshops are envisioned.

Step 1: Prepare the Quick View on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia. The Quick View will provide an

overview of sustainable building trends and policies in the region through desk top research and interviews.

Step 2: Convene the first Regional Workshop with regional

policy-makers from the region to identify gaps of data and information on status, trends and policies on sustainable

buildings and follow-ups of in-depth studies. Step 3: Conduct in-depth studies through desk top research,

questionnaires and interviews. The Draft Report will be

prepared. Step 4: Review and validate the Draft Report during the

second Regional Workshop. Step 5: Prepare the Draft Final Report incorporating

comments from the second workshop. Step 6: UNEP Expert Review of the Draft Final Report by an

Expert Panel of the UNEP.

Step 7: Launch of the Final Report Regional Status Report on Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia.

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The Regional Status Report will contain the following main sections:

Section 1: Sustainable Building Trends in South-East Asia.

An outlook of concepts, approaches and researches in

service of the development and implementation of sustainable buildings in South-East Asia.

Section 2: Sustainable Building Policies in South-East Asia.

An overview of sustainable or green building policies and policy instruments in South-East Asia.

Section 3: Classifications - Rating Systems - of sustainable buildings in South-East Asia, with issues related to the

definition and categorisation of sustainable buildings.

Section 4: Country Reports, including future concepts and

plans, with a survey of the sustainable building policies in each country.

Section 5: Examples of sustainable buildings in the region,

highlighting the Best Practices.

Section 6: Summary with conclusions.

Section 7: Sources and references, existing (regional)

studies on sustainable building policies in South-East Asia.

Centre for Sustainable Buildings and Construction (CSBC)Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Singapore

200 Braddell Road, ZEB Level 3 Singapore 579700

Email: oesha_THAKOERDIN@bca.gov.sg

Tel: (65) 6730 4441 Fax: (65) 6258 0558

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