TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A regulation (Perwal) on green building issued by Bandung administration will take into affect on January 1, 2017. The regulation stipulates that Bandung City Spatial Planning and Creation (Distarcip) may deny application for building permit (IMB) should the building fails to meet green building concepts set by the regulation.
The regulation, which uses international standards, also stipulates that one star buildings, or those required to adopt green building concepts, include buildings or commercial projects with an area of over 5,000 square meters. Those that have an area of under 5,000—subsumed into two and three star categories, including residential houses—will not be required to adopt green building concepts.
“But if any two and three star buildings is upgraded to a better green quality, it will be given incentive in the form of lower land and building tax [PBB]. The said building may be made higher according to its commercial needs. It’s a win-win-solution,” Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil said on Thursday at the Public Works office building in Bandung.
Bandung administration had studied and conducted research in the last two years on green building regulation, sponsored by a member of World Bank group International Finance Corporation (IFC), Hungarian government and Swiss government.
Ridwan Kamil explained that the said researches show that green building regulation will benefit Bandung City.
“We have made a calculation the implementation of it in the next ten years will result in massive power saving. Equal to Rp500 billion,” he said.
In addition, green building regulation will provide solution for the city to reduce CO2 emissions as much as 260,000 tons. “Or equal to absorption of CO2 by 20,000 mature mahogany trees for ten years,” he explained.
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