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Remodelling existing buildings for net zero
16 December 2021
Act now for net zero: remodelling existing buildings
Decarbonisation throughout the building life-cycle has become an essence of contemporary architectural design. In Hong Kong, a subtropical high-density city, commercial buildings currently take up the highest percentage of electricity use and this is exacerbated by its ageing building stock which is significantly holding back the city?s transition to carbon neutrality by 2050.
Advancing Net Zero – Oxford House Revitalisation design by architects LWK + PARTNERS:

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LWK + PARTNERS recently won Merit in the Advancing Net Zero Ideas Competition organised by Hong Kong Green Building Council in Hong Kong with a retrofitting proposal for Oxford House, an existing office building in the city. The design envisions to turn the building into an urban forest paradise, in a high-rise, high-density city context, that promotes mental health and significantly cuts down on energy consumption through active and passive design strategies, bringing the vision of net zero closer to reality.

Innovations to upgrade existing buildings into green, energy-efficient structures have the potential to revolutionise sustainable urban development as it keeps down both embodied carbon (by reusing b...