Building Technology Asia 2008 is a new platform for intelligent buildings and eco-friendly building technology in South East Asia.

It brings together the latest in green buildings, intelligent building and integrated systems. This event presents a unique opportunity to reach out to architects, building specialists and buyers in the South East Asia region.

As the property market booms, and the demand for intelligent building technology takes off, participation in Building Technology Asia 2008 is essential to tap into the market opportunities.

US$400 billion of large-scale projects
Real estate development is currently one of the key economic drivers in South East Asia, accounting for sizeable proportion of the GDP in most countries. Large-scale projects are currently dominating the industry landscape with more than US$400 billion planned throughout Asia.

Growth in demand for building technology
With the overall social and economic trends that signal continued strong economic growth, ongoing population explosion, increasing urbanization, living standard gains and lifestyle changes, Asia will require a dynamic construction market and more energy to meet its needs for space and water, heating, cooling, lighting, mainstream information technology networks, operating appliances and equipment.

A combination of higher energy prices, sky rocketing demand for electricity and deepening environmental concerns has pushed Asia to a tipping point with regards to energy efficiency in buildings. In order to achieve efficiency, Asian countries could cut energy consumption in the construction sector with cost-effective retrofitting of high-efficiency lighting, air conditioners, boilers and waste heat recovery systems.

The importance of intelligent building and technology has become an economic and business necessity in Asia, with the powerful abilities to optimize manpower utilization, reduce costs and improve service levels through aggregation, service integration and process automation synergistically.

Global warming is potentially an even bigger issue in Asia than elsewhere. Asian countries’ race to industrialise could soon propel it ahead of the rest of the world as the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. Adopting eco-friendly environmental technology in buildings that focuses on the protection of the environment and occupants’ health are important, at the same time ensuring the building’s long-term profitability. Eco-friendly architecture relies on structures whose design, construction and use have been carefully examined with a view to use energy, water and material resources efficiently.

Singapore’s leading eco-friendly building projects
In Singapore, some projects incorporating building technology are the new Changi International Airport Terminal 3, Fusionpolis, the S$10 million Zero-Energy Building, a S$6.3 billion solar plant and the S$2.5 billion South Beach mixed development building.

Eco-friendly building projects around the region
Projects that have adopted building technology in other parts of Asia are Pacific Mall, Petronas Twin Towers, Capital Square and Vision City (Malaysia), Solar Ark by Sanyo and X-Seed 4000 building (Japan), Ocean One and Bang Na Residences (Thailand), Orchard Towers (Hong Kong), Beijing’s Olympic Stadium, Bubble Building and Linked Hybrid Building (China).