On 24th November 2012, HCM City Energy Conservation Center (ECC HCM) held a seminar on Green Architecture to share useful information about green buildings and to discuss measures to promote the construction of green projects in Vietnam in the office of HCM Department of Science and Technology.

They can help us pass the time, socialise and yes, even work, but can smartphones also help us save the planet? A paper recently published in the International Journal of Sustainable Energy suggests they can.

With high economic development, Viet Nam is coming into the stage to require substantial amount of material and energy to construct the nation, develop socio-economic infrastructure and improve living standard.

Building a green economy is necessary for Viet Nam to realize her sustainable development roadmap in the current context, said a senior official.

On 7th Nov., Minister of Construction Trinh Dinh Dung and Minister of Climate, Energy and Building Martin Lidegaard has signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the field of energy efficiency in buildings.

On 22nd August, the Ministry of Construction held the approval of the draft "National Strategy for Green Building Development in 2030, with a vision to 2050

s green building a trend in major global sporting events? It certainly was at the London Olympics, which saw all of its permanent structures built to green standards, and materials from all of its temporary buildings recycled or reused upon deconstruction.

As one of the Ministry of Industry and Trade award-winners in an energy efficient building contest, the Fortuna Hotel in Hanoi is held up as an effective example of energy conversation.

A variety of Japanese businesses participated in a seminar on October 26 to discuss new financial mechanisms for applying energy saving technology to buildings and hotels.

The Energy Conservation Center Hanoi (ECC Hanoi) under the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade launched a workshop on October 23 in Hanoi to present energy management models for commercial buildings in the city.

Hanoi Energy Conservation Centre (ECC), on 23rd October, 2012, held a confenrence to popularise the energy managemen model for commercial buildings in the city.

Environmental experts have called on Viet Nam to make further efforts in providing economic incentives and better policies to promote "greener" buildings in the face of resource depletion and rapid urbanization.

Các nhà phát triển công nghệ năng lượng mặt trời của Đức và Philippin đang thúc đẩy việc cài đặt rộng khắp các tấm pin mặt trời trên mái nhà của các hộ dân, cơ sở thương mại và building nhằm đảm bảo an ninh năng lượng của Philippin trong tương lai.

Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM have patented gypsum boards able to store thermal energy that can reduce up to 40% of energy consumption of a building.

Tanzania probably doesn’t come to mind when you think about solar power leaders. But it’s actually working on a solar power project worthy of global notice, I think. The solar project will put solar power on “45 secondary schools, 10 health centres, 120 dispensaries, municipal buildings and businesses across 25 village market centres currently without access to the electricity grid.”

Bridge – The preferences together with the drastic measures to be applied by state management agencies would help encourage the tendency of green design, energy saving and environment protection for nowadays, when more and more high rise buildings arise.

A three-phase, $30 million, multi-agency project known as SPIDERS, or the Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security, is focused on lessening those risks by building smarter, more secure and robust microgrids that incorporate renewable energy sources.

Scientists and managers from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) gathered at a training programme on building green growth capacity for Vietnam, in Hanoi on December 12.

“We are compiling a set of assessment standards for high buildings and urban areas,” said Nguyen Van Tat, vice chairman of the architects association, to the Daily at the seminar on green solutions for project development on Thursday.

Representatives from Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries gathered at a seminar in Hanoi on December 1 to discuss measures to realise the goal of building a more prosperous and equitable region through development of a green economy.