Council on green building standards to be set up

Economy
unurzul@montsame.mn
2017-11-16 15:43:19
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On November 16, the Ministry of Construction and Urban Development and Construction Development Center jointly organized a consultative meeting on establishing a council for green construction.
 
Mongolia approved ‘Green development concept’ in 2014 and ‘Sustainable development vision’ in 2016. In the scope of them, all sectors had some works, such as increasing the use of eco-friendly advanced techniques and saving energy. However, the construction sector lags behind.  
  
In his report, L. Batjargal, head of the Policy and Planning Department, the Ministry of Construction and Urban Development, said: “The sustainable development vision has reflected to reduce a heat loss of buildings by 20 percent by 2020 and by 40 percent in 2030. Nevertheless, there have not been any standards and regulations on constructing buildings with eco-friendly equipment and materials and on making relevant assessments. For this reason, it necessitates to establish ‘Green building standards council’ to formulate required standards and regulations in constructional sector.”  
 
It considers effective to set up the council in collaboration with the UNDP and Uniterra program of ‘World University Service of Canada’. The UN Development Program gives much focus to introduce and implement green development ideology within the framework of ‘Sustainable development vision 2030’.
 
The Uniterra Program has been operating in Mongolia since 2015 and demonstrates its activity on training Mongolian engineers and technical workers by inviting specialists from Canada that have intensive development of green construction. It also provides them an opportunity to share experiences.
 
David Sproule, Canadian Ambassador to Mongolia, said: “During past period, more than 40 Canadian specialists arrived and shared their experiences. Mongolia set a goal to diversify its economy that is currently too dependent from mining. Therefore, Canada prioritizes to cooperate with Mongolia in construction, education and agricultural development with a purpose to render supports in conservancy. We hope this relation will expand further”.
 
Daniela Gasparikova, UNDP’s Deputy Resident Representative, stressed that Mongolia has much influence on global greenhouse gas emission due to its mining development and air pollution. “UNDP closely cooperates with Mongolia to reduce global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emission. Mongolia makes much effort on this matter as well,” she added.
M. Unurzul   
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