The facility, which is located on the Li-Hsing Campus of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), in Tainan (Taiwan), will serve as a centre for Earth Science education which also advancing research into a wide range of green technologies.
“Even though National Cheng Kung University has many innovative teaching research buildings, the Y. S. Sun Green Building Research Center, donated mostly by Chairman Bruce Cheng of Delta Electronics, has a unique significance,” said University President Michael Ming-Chiao Lai.
“Representing an innovative architectural method, concept and transformation, it does not only symbolize the enterprises’ concerns for the global ecology and their contributions to human well-being, it also signifies the beginning of NCKU marching towards a green era,” Lai said.
The new, 4,800m² green centre will display new developments achieved through the university’s green building research and will also serve as the international conference centre for the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).
The building incorporates green efficient technologies such as a reliance on renewable energy (mainly solar), energy saving, waste reduction, Nano photo-catalysts and water recycling.
The design of the centre was inspired by American journalist Thomas Friedman, who wrote in his latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, that the world needs a million Noahs and a million Arks to save living beings and protect biodiversity.
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