On April 20, 2015 in Ho Chi Minh city, the Ministry of Construction, the Embassy of Denmark and Ho Chi Minh city Energy Conservation Center (ECC HCMC) jointly organized a training-of-trainers course (briefly called TOT) on applying the National Technical Regulations QCVN 09: 2013/BXD in construction with efficient use of energy.

The 3-day course targeted at architects, engineers, and experts in the field of construction in Ho Chi Minh City. Previously, during April 15-17, the Ministry of Construction, the Embassy of Denmark and ECC HCMC organized a similar course in Hanoi. 

Mr. Karsten Holm, from Embassy of Denmark inducing the trainees to focus on the objectives of the training course

The training program proposed by the Ministry of Construction for future trainers is meant to instruct trainers on how to train the engineers, architects to work in their career in compliance with Technical Regulations QCVN 09: 2013/BXD on the building of energy efficiency. 

The training program is designed to transfer knowledge in architecture and energy for design practitioners such as architects and civil engineers. It is to provide pedagogical skills for trainers on how to conduct training courses with students; to provide also an overall knowledge and a complete training materials; to facilitate use of checklist in compliance with regulations and guidelines for the users of EEBC regulations; to develop skills in consulting - design of works where energy is used efficiently in building; to facilitate the development of analysis and financial projections (life cycle cost analysis (LCCA), technical solutions, technologies.

In September 2013, the Ministry of Construction issued a revised legal regulation amended with energy efficiency building, which replaces Vietnam Construction Regulation 2005. In order to enact the new legal regulation in its deployment, effective application in practice, the international partners have supported Vietnam to improve the capacity of units and individuals who are directly implementing it in their work.

It is expected that within 2015, the Ministry of Construction, in coordination with the Embassy of Denmark and ECC HCMC will jointly organize 7 training courses, including 2 TOT courses and 5 TOP training of practitioner courses (for experts) in the country. The professional team of trainers after the training will have enough knowledge and capacity to become as core task force for consulting and the implementation of QCVN 09:2013/BXD.

The instructors in those training course are Vietnamese and Danish professionals from a Cooperation Project between the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam and the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Buildings of Denmark. The selected support for the implementation QCVN09: 2013 / BXD aims to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the building. The content is within the framework of a memorandum of cooperation signed between the Government of Vietnam – the Government of Denmark in 2012.

Do Trong Tan