Nathalie Ieong

21
May

Meet the team-SONG Dan, Senior Project Manager of TERAO Asia

Song Dan is one of our most experienced project managers, she can always come out with valuable pieces of advice  about projects or life. Let’s get to know her through the following interview. Q1: Can you simply introduce yourself? Dan: I am TERAO Asia Senior Project Manager since November 2017. Q2: What are your credentials/past experience, for working in your

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14
May

[Repost]: the first BREEAM New Construction certification for an industrial project in China

The sustainable design of industrial buildings plays an important role in sustainability. Industrial buildings, especially manufacturing factories and warehouses with high energy consumption and high pollution, are one of the main factors affecting the environment. Through the implementation of sustainable ideas for design, construction and operation stages, not only can revenue and operational savings be achieved, but employee productivity can

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24
Apr

Earth Day-Time to act on your built environment!

Following the « Earth Day » celebration & due to the current global “COVID” situation, many organizations are now looking into improving their Sustainability policies and accelerating their action plan related to Climate Change. Sustainability is a large topic. At Terao, we focus only on the built environment. We work on practical strategies that could improve the performance & management of your

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17
Apr

Meet the team – Manuel Ramos, TERAO Asia General Manager

Manuel Ramos is TERAO Asia General Manager. Get to know him through some of the questions we asked him. Q1. What is your role at TERAO and since when? Manuel: I am TERAO Asia General Manager since March 2017. Q2. What are your credentials/past experience, for working in your position? Manuel: I am based in Asia/China since 2006 & have

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10
Apr

[Repost] The first BREEAM IRFO in China has been certified by TERAO team for IKEA Guangzhou Tianhe 2

IKEA Guangzhou Tianhe 2 is the first BREEAM IRFO (International Refurbishment and Fit-Out) 2015 to obtain Very Good level in China. Indeed, IKEA opened a new store in Guangzhou, Tianhe district in 2019, in the M·Live mall. TERAO has assisted them along this new store project from concept design to end of construction, working side by side with the different

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27
Mar

Ibox – Full of Energy: HQE, WELL, LEED certification by TERAO

We are happy to announce that Ibox – Full of Energy office rehabilitation project obtained HQE Exceptional, LEED Gold and WELL GOLD certifications with the assistance of sustainability of TERAO. The project is located close to the Gare de Lyon in Paris, and developed by GECINA. The operation size is 20 500sqm. The project includes the following features: HQE Exceptional LEED

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23
Jan

Happy Sustainable Year of the Rat from TERAO Asia !

Happy Year of the Rat – 祝你和你的家人鼠年吉祥,万事如意 ! Terao Asia team wishes our dear clients and partners a very sustainable & prosperous year of the Rat ! May you have a good resting time with your family and loved ones during this holiday, to be able to come back with more ideas and actions towards sustainability, with the help of TERAO

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16
Jan

TERAO was invited to “Wuhan Sponge City real estate construction development technology seminar” and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with GBWINDS

On December 18, 2019, Terao was invited by Wuhan GBwinds Technology Engineering Company to attend “Focus on Ecology, illuminate the Future – 2019 technical seminar” in Wuhan Sponge City real estate construction development technology seminar. The meeting was sponsored by Wuhan Science and Technology Construction Commission Sponge City professional committee and Wuhan Real Estate Development Association. Wuhan GBwinds Technology Engineering

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28
Nov

One of our clients got 6 BREEAM certificates during the BREEAM Awards China 2019, can you guess who it is?

Last Thursday 21st November, 2019 were held the first China BREEAM Awards. It is a ceremony to give recognition to BREEAM users and BREEAM projects in China. Credits: BRE China During this ceremony, one of TERAO longtime clients received 6 BREEAM certificates for 6 different projects. Indeed, this retail customer opened several new stores in 2019. TERAO has assisted them

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17
Oct

TERAO introduces HQE international certification to Caidian (Wuhan) French-Chinese Eco-city representatives

At present, with continuous improvement and development of green buildings, several countries have created their own green building assessment standards. HQE (High quality environment) international certification has been developed by the French public institution CSTB and has been tailored to adapt all countries, cultures and climate zones in the process of internationalization. HQE is favored by more and more owners and

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12
Oct

Autumn teambuilding in an Eco village: green building consultants to go back to the nature!

Last September, our team spent quality time together with families in Henggang横港 Eco village, close to Wuzhen 乌镇 (Zhejiang province) and Tongxiang 桐乡. This team building day was organized by Yejo. It was a good occasion to welcome our new Project Engineer Yiyi too. Introduction by Feng from Yejo    After arriving in the Eco-village and the introduction from Feng (Yejo

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26
Sep

Union for Sustainable Buildings WeChat Public Account

Exciting news! We have launched a WeChat public account for the sustainable buildings community in Asia. Union of Sustainable Buildings is a platform that publishes news and expertise related to sustainable buildings, through articles shared by different experts. Please find us by searching “USB可持续建筑联盟” or save and extract the QR Code in WeChat. Shout out to @Architecture 2030 @Delhom @GIGA @Siveco and @Terao

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30
Aug

[Repost] This warehouse is one of the world’s greenest industrial buildings

Original article from the World Economic Forum website: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/netherlands-greenbuilding-architecture-sustainability Let’s hear our Operation Director Maxime Besseas’s insights about this building: A warehouse is not treated in the same way as a classic building because of the spaces to be thermally conditioned with very little internal input. Major consumptions will therefore often be heating, ventilation and lighting. A passive design is a

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27
Aug

From China Green Building Label 2014 to China Green Buiding Label 2019: what are the major changes?

Since 2008 up to December 2017, over 10,636 projects (over 1 billion square meters) have been certified under China Green Building Label in China, including Green Building Design Label (GBDL-Design phase) and Green Building Label (GBL-Operation Phase); 3401 projects have been assessed in 2017. The following green building map of China can show generally the development situation per region, the

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7
Aug

TERAO Asia enhancing its BREEAM assessments capacities with two more BREEAM AP in our team

BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is an assessment tool and green building certification provided by the BRE (Building Research Institute) for new construction buildings and refurbishments & fit-out projects. To date, BREEAM has been used to certify over 530,000 building assessments across the building life cycle and it is being applied in over 70 countries, of which 83%

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