Concept of Asia-Pacific Conference on Building Commissioning (APCBC)

   

Background:

 

Asia-pacific world contains both advanced and fast developing countries that may determine the fate of the earth in view of energy source and global warming. It goes without saying that building and urban energy consumption mainly owes to building services systems putting HVAC at the top. The HVAC commissioning, or building commissioning, has been discussed and practiced in the United States and some other countries since 1980s, while efforts to form the international consensus have been made since 1990s at Annexes of IEA/ECBCS.

The conference shall discuss how to propagate building and energy/HVAC commissioning process, what are the mutual benefits obtained through commissioning business among Asia-Pacific countries, how to share commissioning tools and technologies, contribution to energy conservation and global environment through commissioning, etc.
 

Kick-off

 

It was thus recognized that building commissioning system should be recognized and adopted as realistic process for realizing energy conservation for both new buildings and existing buildings among Asia-pacific countries, Building Services Commissioning Association (BSCA) of Japan and Hong Kong Building Commissioning Center have brought up the idea of APCBC for years and with the agreement of ICEBO organizer, IEA/Annex47 people and some other researchers and practical engineers in Asian countries, the first APCBC was held in Shenzhen, China,
 

Principle of Organization

 

APCBC will be held every two years, in principle, either independently or in conjunction with other international meeting on commissioning such as IEA/Annex, ICEBO, NCBC, and so on. Additional meeting other than every-two-years-meeting may be held when requested by these commissioning-related conference bodies closely connected with BSCA, which may be called workshop, seminar, panel discussion or forum depending upon the scale and characteristics of the meeting. BSCA, Building Services Commissioning Association, Japan, will take a leading role in cooperation with HKBCxC, Hong Kong Building Commissioning Center. Other bodies may take a leading role after the APCBC becomes popular.
 

Proposal

 

Outline for the 2nd Conference: “APCBC Workshop 0710”
Session 1:  9:00
12:00 Status Report from Countries (break:10:30~11:00)
Session 2: 13:00
15:00 Discussion on Strategies to Transfer Commissioning Technologies
               as well as Concept among Asia Pacific Countries (break: 14:3015:00)
Session 3: 15:30
17:30 presentations on Cx Technologies and Cx examples for both initial Cx and Retro-Cx
Party: 17:30
19:00