Tianjin Eco-City

A blueprint for China’s cities

Bohai Rim China – cities and population

Beijing, 17.5M

Tianjin, 11.7M

Qingdao, 7.6MShenyang, 7.7MTangshan, 7.1MDalian, 6.2MJinan, 5.9MWeihai, 2.6M

Beijing

Tianjin

Tianjin city

Tianjin municipality – Bohai Rim

One of China’s four municipalities

China’s 3rd largest city

Economy based on heavy manufacturing and the seaport

A region of high average disposable income

Special development zone with excellent transportation infrastructure

Bohai Rim

Bohai Rim

Tianjin municipality

Industrial

Ports

Leisure

CBD

Tianjin Eco City

Tianjin Eco-City

New city totalling 30 square km

– 23 million m2 building

– 14 million m2 residential

– 2 million m2 commercial

– 120,000 m2 healthcare

– 1 million m2 education and research

10 billion RMB (£1 billion) per year for the next 10 years

First phase now under construction

Sino-Singapore Cooperation

Apply practical concepts and technologies so that Tianjin Eco City can serve as a sustainability model for other Chinese cities

Eco-City framework agreement signed on November 18, 2007

Tianjin Eco-City

Regeneration of barren salt land

Mott MacDonald’s role

Implementation and institutional planning

Financial Planning

Green buildings

Green transportation

A robust set of KPIs

Proportion of green trips

Overall recycling rate

Usage of renewable energy

Carbon emission per unit GDP

Proportion of green buildings

Per capita daily water consumption

Per capita daily domestic waste generation

Green transport 90% green transport

– Creation of internal jobs

– Integration of road, public transport, walk, cycle networks and neighbourhood design

– High quality rapid transit services connecting Eco-City to Tianjin, Binhai and other external employment centres

Green transport Developing a public transport system

– Providing the first step in the phased development of the overall public transport system for Eco-City

– Focusing on bus transport including Bus Rapid Transit

– Using Bus Rapid Transit on the metro alignment until metro arrives

Bespoke Green Building Evaluation Standard, published in 2006 and now being enhanced

Recognising the power of demonstration projects

Green buildings

569 units

Low cost housing for sale

An energy efficiency exemplar

Sold out ‘off-plan’

Low energy public housing

Improved envelope

High efficiency lighting and control

Elevator regeneration

Water saving fittings

Water heating by solar thermal

Solar power on façade or roof (PV)

Outside air automatic control

Intelligent metering system and indication of energy use

Specific measures

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Annual energy saving

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Overall GHG emissions

GHG emission for Eco-City by different scenarios

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Eco-City GHG emission breakdown

  SSTEC BASELINE

CategoryCarbon emission

Carbon emission percentage

Carbon emission

Carbon emission percentage

Public housing 853,531 39.22% 1,675,246 44.33%

School 38,749 1.78% 92,367 2.55%

Community 152,710 7.02% 241,387 6.47%

Commercial 402,305 18.49% 596,470 17.19%

Hospital 25,671 1.18% 38,946 1.07%

Industry 476,889 21.91% 778,835 20.49%

Infrastructure 21,087 0.97% 32,942 0.84%

Transportation 205,302 9.43% 244,922 7.06%

Total 2,176,245   3,469,235  

GHG emission breakdown for Eco-City

39.22%

1.18%

1.78%21.91%

7.02%

0.97%

18.49%

9.43%

Public housing Hospital School Industry

Community Infrastructure Commercial Transportation

Per capita GHG emission comparison

Region Year Population GHG emission

Per capita GHG emission

(Million t CO2 e) (t CO2 e)

London 2003 7,364,100 70.8 9.6

Helsinki 2005 988,526 6.9 7.0

Beijing 2006 15,810,000 159.0 10.1

Shanghai 2006 18,150,000 212.0 11.7

Tianjin 2006 10,750,000 119.3 11.1

Tianjin Eco-City 2015

350,000 1.6 4.5

The future in China

Increasing Application of…

– National Green Building Standard for Shanghai

– EIA law

– Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law

– Environment Water Quality Standard (GB 3838-2002)

– National Hazardous Waste Inventory

– Law of Renewable Energies

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