On Tuesday, 5th September, Leila and Wiktoria from our COVA Cambodia office, attended a 'Sustainable Building' seminar on Energy & Carbon Reduction applied to all assets (both existing and new buildings), organised by TERAO Asia for the first time in Cambodia.
Three TERAO representatives based in China and Vietnam, as well as EuroCham and AmCham leaders were invited to share their knowledge, best practices and approaches for both existing and new construction projects to reduce carbon emissions and promote sustainability goals in the context of Cambodia.
It was interesting to gain insights from TERAO who is an engineering and consulting company, specialising in building sustainability, energy efficiency and transitions as well as environmental impacts of client's assets.
Cambodia is known to be one of the largest energy consumers in Asia and the benefits of implementing sustainable practices were presented such as energy audits on existing building or carbon reduction calculation basis by rating the carbon usage in different materials for construction and transport, through design retrofitting for future end-users' well-being, and arising opportunities in new projects by using energy modelling and climate analysis data simulations. It was clear that adoption of sustainability is imminent, particularly in Cambodia which has been lagging behind and needs Government support along with collaboration from the private sector.
As it was one of the first seminars organised by TERAO in Cambodia, the guest list was at full capacity and we are sure they will organise more of these in the future with COVA in attendance.
