Sustainability / Resilience / Green Design

With important advantages such as: Using energy, reducing operating costs, minimizing impact on the environment while ensuring the quality of life inside the building, green buildings have become an inevitable development trend in the world nowadays. We, the APS Company, have also implemented green standard design consulting services to meet the needs and desires of customers and catch up with the world trend.

Green Building has now become a revolution of the construction industry, in line with the common global Sustainable Development goal. The World Green Building Council (WGBC) defines: A “Green” building is one that in design, construction or operation minimizes adverse impacts and can create positive impacts on our climate and environment.

Currently, in the world, there are many assessment standards for Green Buildings with different evaluation criteria, but they are all based on 5 basic factors: energy, sustainable places, materials & waste, water and indoor air quality.

Green building certificates in Vietnam today:

  • LEED: assessment tool of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). This is a comprehensive evaluation system, suitable for projects towards international brand recognition, so the evaluation standards are mainly suitable for developed countries.Currently, LEED is the world's most popular and pioneering international standard, having evaluated more than 50,000 buildings in all 50 US states and 135 countries.
  • LOTUS: assessment tool of Vietnam Green Building Council (VGBC). Is a tool developed on the basis of green building evaluation system of advanced countries and adjusted and supplemented to suit the construction industry practice and climate conditions in Vietnam.
  • GREENMARK: present in Vietnam in 2010, is an assessment tool of the Building and Construction Authority (BCA). The same as LEED, the criteria of this assessment tool are mainly relevant in developed countries.
  • EDGE: launched in Vietnam market in 2015, is an assessment tool of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Focus on 3 criteria: energy, water and materials.
  • WELL: born in 2014, certified by GBCI – the same organization that assesses LEED certification. WELL's evaluation criteria mainly focus on the health of users.
  • FITWEL: launched in 2017. Currently, FITWEL is present in more than 35 countries with more than 1,300 users.