Green Is The New Black

Tony Ip, Green Building Faculty member of the Hong Kong Green Building Council, suggests ways to create a healthy, happy and productive work environment

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Some of the quickest ways to ‘green’ in an office are also the simplest – using glass wall partitions to allow natural daylight to flood deep into an interior space, for instance, or the addition of indoor plants. The BEAM Plus Interiors assessment, part of the BEAM Plus family of building environmental assessment tools, was introduced to help designers generate greener ideas. Covering renovations of non-domestic spaces in Hong Kong, the scheme is assessed by BEAM Society Limited (BSL) and certified by the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC).

Indoor plants not only transform and enliven a space, but also filter and enhance the quality of the air. A 2016