Vietnam’s Green Buildings | Exclusive Breakfast Meeting by AGB & VGBC

AsiaGreenBuildings.com partnered with Vietnam Green Building Council in hosting a breakfast meeting to assess Vietnam’s green building goals, aspirations and its realizations with regards to the existing challenges and hindrances along the way.

Key takeaways:

• Massive buildings construction needed due to the urban development
• Vietnam electricity cost is still too low to push the market to adopt Green Buildings
• Proper education of green buildings is severely needed to develop the required skill set
• Green buildings industry is still in infancy, partly due to an underdeveloped regulatory environment
• Foreign players tend to favor green buildings more due to knowledge they bring from abroad

The breakfast meeting was held on the 23rd of April 2013 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and exclusively attended by the Vietnam Green Building Council (VGBC), Solidiance, prominent architectural firms, constructors, as well as the world’s leading construction materials and equipments manufacturers – Schneider Electric, Saint Gobain, Bluescope Steel, Schindler, Akzo Nobel, Holcim, etc.