BRE will spearhead ‘Best of British’ on the Beijing Park, taking a number of UK-based partners to Beijing to build 10 of the homes.
The Beijing Green Building Park is based on the original BRE Innovation Park model in Watford. It is being created to give the Chinese and international construction supply chains a means by which they can test and trial new and innovative designs, materials, products and technologies before applying them in the real world at volume.
The agreement for park is with Chinese developer Vanke, the Chinese government and 12 other partners including China Green Building Council, Singapore Green Building Council, Knauf Plasterboard, Lafarge shui, Bayer Material Science, International Copper Association and EcoIntel Engineering Consulting.
BRE chief executive Dr Peter Bonfield said: “The UK has world-leading knowledge on sustainable building design and construction. Being involved with the Beijing Green Building Park gives our construction industry a fantastic opportunity to showcase their products and services in a housing market that has predicted growth on an unprecedented scale.”
The UK Ambassador to China Sebastian Wood and Chinese vice minister of housing and urban/rural development Qiu Baoxing were present at the signing which took place in Beijing.
The park is being delivered at a crucial time for China, which needs 36 million affordable homes in the next five years.
Alongside the demonstration homes, a key feature of the Park will be a green space which will be open to the general public for leisure pursuits and educational purposes. It will be the only park in the city that is free for use by the whole community.
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