Australian Tropical Green Building Mission 2014 Jakarta & Bandung, Indonesia
Signage on the streets and highways of Jakarta urging residents to 'Go Green' .
Presentation of a painting by Mike Ferris, a Cairns based architect, of a Torres Strait Pigeon to the president of the Green Building Council of Indonesia. The pigeon is commonly found in the SE Asia region and is also known as the nutmeg or spice pigeon.
Thank you to the Austrade Jakarta office and TradeStart QLD.
Thank you for your support.
Industry Development Fund
Thank you to our in-kind Supporters & other Sponsors
Thank you to our hosts in Bandung
Meeting with Bandung City administration
Visit to Bandung Eco-learning Camp Foundation
Presentations by members of the Eco-learning Camp Foundation
Visit to the ITSB: Eco-Industry Orientated University
Members of the Tropical Green Building Network went to Bandung and Jakarta in May this year as part of the Australian Tropical Green Building Mission 2014, coordinated by the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) with expert support from the Austrade Jakarta office. We were also assisted by the Queensland Government Treasury and Trade, Tradestart Export Advisor for the Cairns region. The trade mission was sponsored in part by the Cairns Regional Council Industry Development Fund.
The Cairns region's shared climatic zones with Indonesia and our experience in developing infrastructure for tropical climates that also make our city more resilient in times of flood and tropical storms may assist local administrators in Indonesia as they devise strategies for growing urban population’s. There is also an accelerating search for more energy and water efficient building designs and the application of new building technology suiting the tropics.
The contacts and information sourced through the trade mission is summarized in this report. There is a broad range of information relating to planning, design, engineering & development primarily in Indonesia with a strong focus on water and energy.
The TGBN has established connections with the following organisations: World Green Building Council Green Building Council Indonesia Confederation of Indian Industry Indian Green Building Council Malaysia Green Building Confederation Vietnam Institute for Urban Environment and Indsutry Vietnam Green Building Council China Hot Summer Warm Winter Association Singapore Building & Construction Authority Singapore Green Building Council Green Building Council Indonesia ASHRAE Indonesia Institute of Technology and Science Bandung Sinarmas Land Bandung City Administration Bita Enarcon Engineering Narame Mech/Electrical Engineers
We attended the World Green Building Council South East Asia conference hosted by the Green Building Council of Indonesia. List of presentations as follows:
01. Steel as Sustainable Products 02. The Benefit of Using Pure Seawater for Agricultural Production 03. A Resources Efficiency Classification System for Developing Countries 04. Out of sight, Out of Mind: Green Wash 05. Green Coatings for Nusantara: Propan range 06. Creating better building and people efficiency 07. Sustainable Water Management, from Policy to Implementation 08. Sustainable Buildings in the Tropics, Australian Experience 09. Eco Hotel management system and case study 10. To Achieve the Green Economy in Building Industry 11. Water In The City of The Future 12. Facade Evolution Innovative,Sustainable Design for Building Skins 13. Zero Waste Water Purification 14. Developing TOD with proper NMT access - ITDP 15. Beyond Eco-cities Regenerative Concepts for Indonesian Tropical Archipelagic Urban Development
Some background to building codes and regulations in Indonesia:
In 2012, Jakarta’s municipal government introduced building codes aimed at boosting energy and water efficiency.
The gubernatorial regulation on Green Buildings affects all permit applications for large office buildings, shopping malls and apartments. The permits, which govern applications for projects of at least 50,000 square metres, went into effect in mid 2013.
Existing highrise buildings will be audited to ensure compliance with the green building code set by the Green Building Council Indonesia (GBCI), the governing body and the organiser of GREENRIGHT 2014.
The GBCI is considering applications for certification for 50 new building projects and to retrofit existing buildings.
The demand for green buildings is gaining traction in Indonesia. The government has tough new rules for planned and existing structures governing water efficiency, air quality and comfort. While enforcement can be lax, the new Ministry of Public Works headquarters on JL Pattimura was constructed following all of the new guidelines.
The non-profit Green Building Council of Indonesia (GBCI) has issued green building ratings for 10 projects since the body was set up in 2009. Known as GREENSHIP certifications, another 40 are in the pipeline. The green building movement GBCI set up and enacted criteria within three years of opening its doors, faster than any western member of the World Green Building Council, the global governing body.
Bandung is the 4th largest city in Indonesia and is not far from Jakarta with about 8.5M people. It has cooler temperatures year-round than most other Indonesian cities and lies on a river basin surrounded by volcanic mountains.
We met with the Bandung City Administration including department heads from town planning, building and infrastructure services and the independent water authority. The city's new mayor, a renowned international architect, Ridwan Kamil is bringing about planning and building programmes that includes a new city centre, alleviating traffic congestion, increasing densities within the urban footprint, controlling hillside development and most importantly water quality and purification.
Our presentation focused on tropical expertise and we presented a letter from the Mayor of Cairns and the CEO of Advance Cairns who has lived in the city as well as material from the Cairns Regional Council including water and waste, sustainable buildings and management of natural assets. We hope that the Council officers may one day visit Cairns.
Visit to the Bandung Eco-learning Camp Foundation: Sahabat Lingkungan Hidup
The Eco Learning Camp was under construction on an area of 2416 sqm, as well as an additional 3075 sqm for agricultural use. The development is fulfilling the criteria of the Green Building Council Indonesia Greenship rating system for housing.
The foundation is operated by a committee made up of members of the community, businesses, the university, architects, engineers and building material suppliers. Sponsors the Body Shop and material suppliers such as Bpanel and Propan.
The project is a not-for profit venture and the foundation regularly hosts children and groups that visit the development to learn about how it supports the environment.
After inspecting the construction site we were also grateful to listen to presentations about the project and discuss the process. We shared our experience with projects carried out by the Tropical Green Building Network.
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE BANDUNG: Eco-Industry Oriented University ITSB
The Leadership Foundation Board of Trustees receives full support from Sinar Mas, the Bandung Institute of Technology and the Government of Bekasi for the Bekasi Deltamas City Campus. The Eco-Industry Oriented University programme is focused on industrialization, globalization, regional autonomy and national development.
The campus has a development program and with the support of Sinar Mas, one of Indonesia's largest property developers they are planning to construct sustainable buildings that showcase design and technology for energy and water efficiency and green building materials and systems.
We met with the Rector and department heads and discussed the development and use of green building technology suitable for use in the tropics and ways we could share our knowledge and expertise.
For further information on the trade mission and follow up activity, please contact Emma Thirkell on +61 7 40531274 or email email/admin)(tgbn.org.au
