January 5, 2009 The Education Center for Subtropical Green Buildings (ECSGB) at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), also known as the “Green Magic School,” was recently approved by the City Urban Planning Committee of Tainan City.
The detailed construction and design layout of this Green Magic School has been also completed, and construction is expected to begin in January 2009 and be complete in 2010.
The NCKU Green Magic School has been designed and managed jointly by NCKU Professor Hsien-Te Lin of Architecture Department, and Architect Chao-Yung Shih. They invited four NCKU faculty members to work on scientific experiments for feasibility of their environmental friendly designs.
For example, the building is slated to use “adequate techniques” instead of “expensive techniques,” and to save 40 percent energy, to conserve 30 percent water, and to reduce carbon emission by 30 percent.
It will be built entirely with green construction materials.
The NCKU Education Center of Subtropical Green Buildings is also a Magic Green School full with healthy concepts. For example, the coatings branded with “Care Milieu” provided from BioSun Technology Co. are bacterium-and-fungus-resistant, anti-fouling and self-cleaning as well as moisture adjustable. Furthermore, water-based wood coatings, donated from YUN CHUN HO International Co., certified with a certificate of healthy building materials label from the Architecture and Building Research Institute of the Ministry of the Interior does not contain any formaldehyde and heavy metals. The bacterium-resistant steel plates, donated from Yieh Phui Enterprise Co. will be adopted in the ventilation system of the air-conditioners to maintain a good quality of healthy air. The Binchoutan (Japanese bamboo charcoal) implanted with silver nanoparticles, bestowed from Lifecharcoal Corp. will be embedded into the double-layer walls in the international conference hall of the Green Magic School to disinfect release and to absorb filthy odors and fatal gases.
Notably, all the building materials used in the NCKU Green Magic School are made domestically and inexpensively. All the enterprises taking parts in the establishment of Green Magic School will become the partners of “green technological education” and be displayed inside the “green building museum” in the NCKU Green Magic School.
For more information, see the Web site of the National Cheng Kung University.
