Country Garden Forest City won the Global Model of Green Building Industrial Park award for its industrial park at the 2017 Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements Award (SCAHSA) ceremony, which was held in New York recently. This is its second year being awarded with such honour.
Forest City receives another honour from UN Headquarters
The Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS) is a non-profit organization, with Special Consultative Status within the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The organization is committed to sustainable cities and human settlements for all.
The SCAHSA award established by GFHS is a trendsetter for urban construction everywhere that respects sustainable development.
Forest City, China’s Wuyi County and Indonesia’s Surabaya City were among the winning projects submitted from 23 countries and regions worldwide. Forest City won the SCAHSA Global Human Settlements Award on Planning and Design at the 11th Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS – XI).
The Forest City concept recognised by UN officials
Forest City has taken the traditional construction industry to the next level, and, as a result, has received recognition from many professionals including Mara Angelica Murillo Correa, senior programme officer for intergovernmental affairs at the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)’s New York Office, Dr. Arab Hoballah, member of the SCAHSA jury and former Chief of the Sustainable Lifestyles, Cities and Industry Branch at UNEP, as well as Lu Haifeng, Secretary General of GFHS.
Forest City’s industrial park, with a gross floor area spanning some 1.6 million square meters, is conveniently located in the northwest section of Forest City, adjacent to the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) and approximately 10 km from Forest City’s Island One.
The park is on track to evolve into a leading comprehensive and modern manufacturing facility for construction products with reach across Asia and even globally by integrating the entire industry chain, including construction engineering, PC prefabrication, logistics and transportation, parts processing, assembly and construction as well as science-based research and development.
The first phase of the modern PC prefabrication plant has already been completed and now ranks first across Asia in terms of single-building capacity. The second phase of the park is now under construction, including two speciality plants, each of which is approximately the same size as the facilities completed in the first phase.
After completion of the two plants, the park is expected to become the world’s largest industrial production facility for construction products in terms of overall capacity.
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