Green City: Hong Kong Towards a Smart and Sustainable City by 2050 – Challenges and Opportunities

Professor Lapman Lee is a Professor of Practice at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he focuses on ESG, FinTech and Innovation, Governance and Risk Management.

He is a convenor of the University’s AF CESEF Sustainable Finance centre and a faculty member of the ESG and Sustainability MSc program.

Lapman advises financial institutions and listed companies on climate change and corporate sustainability.

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

Become Asia’s premier Sustainable and Transition Finance and GreenTech innovation Center.

Bert Bulthuis is a native of The Netherlands who has been based in Hong Kong since 2012.
Originally from Groningen in the north of The Netherlands, Bert founded his first firm, Sitec Studio Architecture, in 1993.

He established a new practice in Hong Kong to expand on his Dutch building
philosophy in 2013. Both companies operate as one, under the company name STUDIO SITEC.

Bert and his team have designed and realized over 350 buildings, urban developments and interiors across the STUDIO SITEC practices, employing and collaborating with many talented engineers, architects, and designers along the way. Bert takes a 360-degree perspective on each of the projects he undertakes and is involved in every stage of the building process from meeting and talking to clients, creating concepts and designing and integrating building details to monitoring the process.

Bert is taking in his work the last years a more and more holistic approach where creating spaces is in balance with nature and where circularity, regenerative design and sustainability are monitored on a larger scale than the specific designs STUDIO SITEC is working on.

Bert is a chartered Architect and Member of The Royal Dutch Society of Architects.
Bert is also member of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce ESG committee and SME committee.

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

– more focus on sustainability in the city building process where different scale levels are taken into account
– focus on a more circular approach within the interior building process
– monitoring, evaluating, analyzing existing buildings to make these more sustainable.

James is the Associate Director of Arcadis, he leads the Infrastructure Strategy and Policy Advisory Team and Sustainability Team through Arcadis core service capabilities. He has been working with global strategy firms and help leadership in formulating policies and strategies for industry transformation, operational improvement, and achieving sustainability targets.

James holds expertise in sustainable construction, green materials and technologies, and decarbonisation strategy. He developed embodied carbon auditing frameworks based on relevant international standards and helped launch a carbon labelling scheme for certifying low-carbon construction materials. He also led a team to conduct embodied carbon assessment and formulate decarbonisation strategies for new builds and fit-out projects in HK and China. He was a member of Task Force on GHG Validation and Verification of the Hong Kong Accreditation Service of the Innovation and Technology Commission.

As a pioneer in modern methods of construction (MMC), James has taken prominent initiatives in promoting modularisation, automation and digitalisation in construction. His specialty further lies in data analytics and econometric modelling.

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

– formulate roadmap for construction site electrification and clean energy adoption
– launch digital tool for embodied carbon assessment
– set up net zero carbon hub