The Ministry of Construction held a seminar on Green and Energy Saving building materials on December 10th. This is one of the seminars in the series of activities of Vietnam Green Building Week 2020.
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Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Trung Thanh has an opening speech at the workshop
Speaking at the workshop, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Trung Thanh - Director of the Institute of Building Materials emphasized the importance of green and energy saving building materials in green buildings development. The current trend of developing green building materials in the world is in line with the United Nations' green and sustainable development perspective. Therefore, countries need to minimize energy consumption in production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the production of green building materials must eliminate harmful factors; easily to recycle and reuse.
In recent years, the Ministry of Construction has actively advised and submitted to the Government and the Prime Minister for promulgation and also issued many mechanisms, policies, many schemes and strategies to encourage businesses and people in promoting production and use of unburnt building materials, green, environmentally friendly building materials and energy efficient.
According to Assoc.Prof.Dr Le Trung Thanh, Vietnam needs to focus on synchronous implementation of many solutions: improving mechanisms and policies on building materials; renewing and perfecting the system of standards and technical regulations for building material products; increasing environmental tax on materials polluting the environment; speeding up scientific and technological research activities, and applying science and technology to the production process. In addition, the MoC should focus on training and retraining of business managers; training qualified human resources capable of grasping new technologies and modern production lines.
PhD. Nguyen Quang Hiep – Deputy Director of the Department of Building Materials said that: “Vietnam currently ranks 5th in the world in terms of cement production and 6th of production of ceramic tiles”. Vietnam's technology of production of cement, ceramic tiles, sanitary wares, and construction glass is advanced and modern compared to other countries in the region and around the world. Products meet the standards of many developed countries such as the US, Japan, European countries, with plentiful and diversified designs, meeting the needs of domestic market and export.
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The whole conference
As for unburnt building materials, by 2019, Vietnam had over 1600 manufacturing facilities, with a total design capacity of about 10.2 billion standard members/year (nearly 30% of the total design capacity of building material production line). Popular types of unburnt construction materials include concrete bricks, autoclaved aerated concrete bricks, autoclaved aerated concrete panels, prefabricated hollow concrete wall panel. Actual production / consumption reached 4.83 billion standard unburnt bricks.
Regarding the development orientation of building materials in the coming period, PhD. Nguyen Quang Hiep said that the Vietnam Construction Material Development Strategy for the period 2021 - 2030 with a vision to 2050 (approved in Decision 1266 / QD-TTg dated August 18, 2020) clearly stated the perspective of Vietnam: Developing an efficient and sustainable construction material industry, basically meeting the domestic demand, gradually increasing exports; contributing to promoting socio-economic growth and development; fastest accessing and application of scientific, technological and managerial achievements; efficient use of resources; saving energy; the process of exploiting and processing minerals as building materials and producing construction materials should minimize the impact on the environment.
At the seminar, experts and delegates discussed many contents around the topic of green building materials, through presentations on green materials for green buildings, EUROWINDOW's energy saving solutions; development of green building materials used for coastal and island constructions; eco paint...