Green Building Program (Tokyo Metropolitan Government)

Meta Data

Draft:

Revision of previous policy?:

Draft Year:

2002

Effective Start Year:

2010

Scope:

Subnational

Document Type:

Programme

Economic Sector:

Energy, Power, Building

Energy Types:

Power, Renewable, Solar, Other

Issued by:

Bureau of the Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Source:

Bureau of the Environment Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Bureau of the Environment Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Overview)

File:

Green Building Program (Tokyo Metropolitan Government)

Green Building Program (Tokyo Metropolitan Government) (Overview)

Overall Summary:

The Tokyo Green Building Program is designed to require building owners to care about the environment in newly constructing or expanding large buildings in four areas, which are “rational use of energy,” “optimum use of resources,” “preservation of the natural environment,” and “mitigation of the heat island phenomenon.”

Efficiency

EE building standards:

[C]reating a market where environment-friendly and high-quality buildings are highly evaluated. It is required for those buildings that will be newly built or extended and whose total floor area exceeds 5,000 square meters to submit their building environment plans. [...] The submission system of building environment plan has four evaluation points, i.e., "streamlining of energy use," "appropriate utilization of resources," "protection of natural environment" and "mitigation of heat island phenomenon" [...].---The purpose of the Program is to [...] encourage building owners to carry out voluntary environment-conscious efforts and create a market that would highly rate environmentally sound and high-quality buildings and structures.

EE financial incentives:

TMG provides some incentives to help building owners to carry out voluntary measures.

Environment

Decarbonization strategy:

The purpose of the Program is to [...] encourage building owners to carry out voluntary environment-conscious efforts and create a market that would highly rate environmentally sound and high-quality buildings and structures. ---[C]reating a market where environment-friendly and high-quality buildings are highly evaluated. It is required for those buildings that will be newly built or extended and whose total floor area exceeds 5,000 square meters to submit their building environment plans. [...] The submission system of building environment plan has four evaluation points, i.e., "streamlining of energy use," "appropriate utilization of resources," "protection of natural environment" and "mitigation of heat island phenomenon" [...].

Green finance:

TMG provides some incentives to help building owners to carry out voluntary measures.

Full Document Text

Green Building Program

A page number：816-006-102 Last updated date：2018/2/9

The submission system of building environment plan is designed to clarify environment-friendly approaches to buildings and highly evaluate excellent approaches. The system was introduced in June 2002 with the aim of creating a market where environment-friendly and high-quality buildings are highly evaluated.

It is required for those buildings that will be newly built or extended and whose total floor area exceeds 5,000 square meters to submit their building environment plans. Moreover, those buildings that will be newly built or extended and whose total floor area exceeds 2,000 square meters may submit their building environment plans on a voluntary basis. Details of plans and the results of evaluation of environment-friendly approaches are opened to the public on the official website of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG).

The submission system of building environment plan has four evaluation points, i.e., "streamlining of energy use," "appropriate utilization of resources," "protection of natural environment" and "mitigation of heat island phenomenon" (details are shown in the table below). Moreover, it was made mandatory in January 2010 to consider the introduction of equipment to use renewable energies. From now on, renewable energies such as sunlight, solar heat and others are expected to come into wider use in large-scale newly-built buildings, only a few of which have introduced renewable energy to date.