Business Environment Council (BEC) launches its “Guide to Energy Efficient Retrofits of Office and Hotel Buildings: identifying cost effective solutions” and “Retrofit Calculator” on December 12 at BEC Auditorium. The Retrofit Guide and the Calculator are the outputs of a project supported by the HKSAR Government, offering buildings owners, managers and tenants’ information to support their decisions in retrofitting existing buildings and in developing the business case to do so. 
     BEC is launching these enabling tools because of the importance of managing consumption of energy in Hong Kong’s buildings in order to reduce carbon emissions, and to avoid unnecessary air pollution, as well as for efficiency and thermal comfort reasons. 

     Ir Alfred Sit, Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services, Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, HKSAR Government said, “Energy efficiency and conservation is central to the HKSAR Government’s environmental policies, as reflected in the Energy Saving Plan and Climate Action Plan 2030+. Energy saving should no doubt be our common goal, not just for cost concerns but also for our aspiration to thrive in a clean and green environment, as well as to tackle the global problem of climate change.”
     For more information, visit http://bec.org.hk/resource-centre/eerguide.