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August 26, 2002

 

MLIT Conducts "Green Diagnosis" to Existing Government Office Buildings

Keywords: Climate Change Energy Conservation Government Policy / Systems Reduce / Reuse / Recycle 

Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) is planning to conduct "Green Diagnosis", based on the "Guidelines for Environmental Assessment and Renovation Planning for Governmental Office Buildings". This diagnosis is to consider measures for reducing energy consumption and other environmental burdens of buildings, for example selecting points to be renovated for to reduce CO2 emissions.

MLIT will assess governmental office facilities from the perspectives of local environmental impact, energy and resources saving, life extension, and use of environmentally friendly materials. Then, the assessment will be translated into "green renovation" – renovation of governmental office facilities with environmental consideration throughout the entire life cycle, from renovation planning, reconstruction works, operation and disposal of buildings.

About ten buildings among existing central government offices will go through "Green Diagnosis" by the end of this fiscal year, and about 2,400 regional office buildings will undergo it in three years starting in 2002. Since MLIT already announced their policy for newly constructed office buildings to be "green governmental offices" in principle, this policy and the "Green Diagnosis" will cover all new and existing governmental office buildings in making them environmentally friendly.



Posted: 2002/08/26 06:46:54 AM
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