City: Shenzhen·China

Location:Pingdi Subdistrict, Longgang District (Shenzhen International Low Carbon City)

Land area: 11,037.76m2

Floor Space: Around 65,000m2 (Floorage (including plot ratio): 44,150m2)

Part I Project Background

1、 Introduction

Located in the center of Shenzhen International Low Carbon City at Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, the Future Low Carbon Building and Community Innovation New Experimental Center (hereinafter referred to as “Future Center”) project is under the administration of the Pingdi Subdistrict Office (Pingdi Subdistrict is previously known as Pingdi Town of Longgang District).

Located at the northeast portal of Shenzhen, as well as the connection area of Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou, Shenzhen International Low Carbon City occupies a total planning area of 53.14km². Since it is situated at the 2-Hour Economic Circle of Guangzhou , Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the low carbon city is less than 2-hour drive away from the center of Guangzhou, Dongguan, Huizhou, Zhuhai and Hong Kong, which covers most part of the Pearl River Delta, and offers a greater space for development in the future.

Shenzhen International LowCarbon Cityis the flagship project of the EU-China Urbanization Partnership established by Premier Li Keqiang with EU in May 2012. This project shoulders the mission of providing important strategy supports for China in exploring a low-carbon development path and international negotiations regarding addressing climate changes. Moreover, it also demonstrates an important part of embodying the green and low-carbon development concept and, the construction of modern international city of Shenzhen.

Pingdi Subdistrictis home toShenzhen International Low Carbon City. As one of the most underdeveloped areas in Shenzhen, this subdistrict is very similar cities and towns who are undergoing nationwide industrialization today. Therefore, through model innovation, planning guidance, environment construction, along with the improvements from endogenous power and integrating technology with market, the low carbon city will gradually discover a new way for the leapfrog sustainable development of underdeveloped areas.

The low carbon city has drawn a lot of domestic and international attention since it was put into construction in 2012. It has been awarded the “Comprehensive Demonstration Award Project for National Fiscal Policy of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction”, “Top 10 New Urbanization Models”, “ The Low-Carbon Example of the Year of the Low Carbon in China”, “APEC Outstanding Planning Award for the Low-Carbon City and Town Project”, Sino-American “2014 Sustainable Development Planning Project Award”, etc.

The planning of the low carbon city exhibits extremely strong innovation and exploration. As one of the first batch of international cooperative projects introduced into low carbon city, as well as pioneering the research, development, and exploration of both low carbon buildings and low carbon communities, the Future Center will become the bellwether which represent the development of the low carbon city in the coming years.

2、About IBR

As a national high-tech enterprise and key cultural enterprise in Shenzhen, Shenzhen Institute of Building Research Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as IBR) is a state-owned research and design company. It is jointly owned by Shenzhen Capital Co., Ltd., Zhongguancun Development Group, Shenzhen Yinglong Investment Holding Co., Ltd. as well as Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd.

IBR has been committed to exploring the path of practicing green building and eco-city with Chinese characteristics, and has formed an interdisciplinary and multi-specialty technical service model, focus on scientific research and development, architectural design, sustainable consulting, ecological planning, investigation and monitoring, project management and cultural communication. It has established a public service platform for green technology at state, provincial and municipal levels. Over the past decade, it has supervised or participated in publishing more than 100 state, industrial, provincial and municipal standards and codes regarding green or energy-efficient building, and assumed many scientific research projects at all levels. In addition, IBR also won many ministerial, provincial and municipal outstanding planning or design prizes for more than one hundred times. For many years, it has been the focus of all walks of life. For example, the CCTV-1 “Topics in Focus” once reported its scientific researches and the practice on green building and building energy efficiency.

IBR’s headquarter – IBR Building is an independently planned and designed green office building that integrates the green building concept of “localization, low cost, low resource consumption and generalizability”. With the energy conservation rate of 60%, its design has reached the highest level of the green building evaluation standard in China–“three-starred”. It explores a solution for green buildings with Chinese characteristics in the region with hot summer and warm winter, which represents its forward-looking, experimental and demonstrative. Meanwhile, the building is also an important place for IBR employees to practice green lifestyles and green working environment. Moreover, it is also a scientific base which opens to the public and displays the technologies and arts of buildings, as well as green building technology. (For more details, see Appendix 4). 

3、Project Overview

On the basis of its 15 years’ green practice, the Future Center is another IBR exploration following the completion of IBR Building in 2009. Aimed at the demonstration of low carbon community after the large-scale promotion of green buildings, this project will be built as the platform for low carbon technological innovation and industrial alliance, as well as a world’s leading experimental project for net-zero energy consumption. It will not only make innovations and breakthroughs in carbon emission control, environmental quality improvement, and building industrialization, but also become a model of creating a green and low carbon life style, exploring a green community system, and intelligent construction and operation. As the practical carrier of the Joint Research Center built by IBR and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this project will be developed into an internationally influential public technical platform in the field of low carbon city, and bringing innovative vitality into the construction of this field.

The project occupies a total plot area of 11,037.76 square meters, with 44,150 square meters floor space counted in the plot ratio,   which include 32,000 square meters factory buildings (non-pollution production) and R&D buildings, 11,000 square meters dormitory, 300 square meters commerce use, and 850 square meters dining room and supporting facilities. For areas that are excluded from the plot ratio, the two-floor basement covers around 16,000 square meters, while both aloft space and corridor occupies 5,000 square meters.

Part II Profile of the Competition

1、Purpose of Competition

1.1 Fairness: An open competition will be held to solicit excellent creative ideas around the world. Sincere invitations go to all outstanding research institutes, product suppliers, design institutions, individuals or unions worldwide, without any restriction on the grading of qualification.

1.2 Sharing: This event will break the traditional model of a design competition and adopt an open and innovative platform model. The competition will be categorized into three parts: demand, technology and architectural design, and the tasks will be released in the same time, which will allow contestants to choose any one or more tasks from different categories freely. As the event continues, deliverables of the demand and technology competitions will be announced for reference in the space competition.

1.3 Full life-cycle participation: Contestants will be offered an opportunity to participate in the whole process of design, construction and operation of this project.

1.4 Crowd-funding model exploration: Contestants will subsequently be given the pre-emptive right to this project, if their creative is adopted.

2、Content and Requirements

This event is categorized into three parts, and contestants are free to participate in one or more categories.

Category A: The Demand Creative Competition is targeted towards the potential users of the Future Center, where contestants are encouraged to use their imagination freely regarding their living and working modes in the future low carbon buildings and communities, under the background of the information age. Specified requirements are stated in Appendix 1—Task Statement of Demand Creative Competition on the Future Low-carbon Building and Community Innovation Experimental Center. The competition deliverables must meet the following requirements: no more than four pages of A3-size JPG files; the precision should be no lower than 300 dpi. The size of a single file should not exceed 10M, and all files together should not exceed 40M.

Category B: The technology innovation competition is oriented towards all institutions which are involved with the exploration and innovation of low-carbon building technology and product fields; looking for the prime highlighted technologies and products that may be applied or demonstrated in the Future Center project. Specified requirements are detailed in Appendix 2—Task Statement of Technology Innovation Competition on the Future Low-carbon Building and Community Innovation Experimental Center. The competition deliverables must meet the following requirements: no more than four pages of A3-size JPG files; the precision should be no lower than 300 dpi. The size of a single file should not exceed 10M, and all files together should not exceed 40M.

Category C: The architectural design competition is oriented towards building designers to explore the forms of future architectural that are “shareable, vegetable and changeable.” Specified Requirements are detailed in Appendix 3—Task Statement of Architectural Design Competition on the Future Low-carbon Building and Community Innovation Experimental Center. The competition deliverables must meet the following requirements: two sets of A3 design specifications, four pieces of A0 horizontal panels, and electronic copies (PDF, JPG, WORD, CAD, etc.) of all relevant documents, and two disks.

3、Registration and Submission

3.1 Schedule

4. Registration Conditions

The competition will be held publicly to collect excellent innovations around the world, and excellent low-carbon technology R&D organizations, product suppliers, design organizations, individuals, and unions worldwide will be sincerely invited to the competition. Contestants need to register as members of Epenghui (open to organizations and individuals who share a common green low-carbon dream. Log in on the website at http://epenghui.szibr.com, or scan the two-dimension code of Epenghui WeChat public number at the end of this document. Currently Epenghui is free to join). Those who are already Epenghui members can apply for the competition directly. For union contestants, all the union members need to register as members of Epenghui.

4.1 RegistrationRegistration Documents

1）RegistrationRegistration form

2）Agreement of a union (applicable to unions participating in the competition)

3）Commitment letter

4）Copies of ID cards provided by individual contestants. Introduction to organizations and copies of business registration certificates or business licenses (with the common seal affixed or signature) that organizational contestants need to provide.

Note: RegistrationRegistration documents must be filled out in (simplified) Chinese and (or) English. Should there be any discrepancy between the Chinese and English content, the Chinese content shall prevail.

4.2 Submission of Registration Documents

1） Log in on the registration website as members of Epenghui at http://epenghui.szibr.com and go to the registration link: http://competition.szdesigncenter.org/yszx/web/zbpro/detailPro.do?id=2656.

2）In case online registration fails, contact co-organizer’s email : scd-competition@szdesigncenter.org

3）Please submit all paper documents of registration materials along with competition result documents to the organizer: (Recipients) Miss YU, and Mr. LUO

Address: IBR Building, No. 29, Mei’ao3rd Road, Shangmeilin, Futian District, Shenzhen

4）After the organizer confirms the registration materials submitted by contestants and replies with successful registration, the contestants may begin their program creation.

4.3 Q&A

Contestants should raise their questions by email and send the email to the email-box of the organizer (scd-competition@szdesigncenter.org) within the prescribed time. The organizer will reply to emails regularly.

4.4 Delivery of Competition Results

1）Contestants are free to choose one or more categories from demand, technology, and space creative competitions to participate in. However, each participant can only present one result for each category.

2）Demand creative competition and technology innovation competition results should be submitted on line. Contestants should submit their competition result documents before the deadline to the website at http://competition.szdesigncenter.org/yszx/web/zbpro/detailPro.do?id=2656.

3）Space creative competition results should be submitted both on line and in paper. Contestants should submit their competition result documents before the deadline to the website at http://competition.szdesigncenter.org/yszx/web/zbpro/detailPro.do?id=2656 and submit their competition result documents and paper registration materials to Miss YU or Mr. LUO at IBR Building, No. 29, Mei’ao 3rd Road, Shangmeilin, Futian District, Shenzhen All the documents shall be effective upon actual receipt. Overdue submissions will be treated as the contestants giving up and they are not allowed to participate in the follow-up process of the competition.

4）The above-mentioned time is Beijing Time. The organizer reserves the right to change the schedule. In case of any change, a notice will be posted on the co-organizer’s website （http://competition.szdesigncenter.org/yszx/web/zbpro/detailPro.do?id=2656） seven (7) days in advance.

5）Should any result documents be judged by more than half of the members of the Jury Committee to be in any one of the following circumstances, they shall be deemed invalid.

• The result document is delivered overdue or by several times；
• The result document is not original. It was published in the past or is judged by more than half of the members of the Jury Committee to be identical with similar works;
• Contestants participate in the competition in the form of a union, but they haven’t submitted The Union Agreement or the composition of the union changed after their registration was approved;
• There are material differences in the names of the organization showing on the result document and the registration form.

6）Contestants should get back their invalid result documents within ten (10) days after the receipt of the notice of the organizer by email or by telephone. If overdue, they will be deemed giving up and the organizer will dispose them as scrap. 

5. Selection Method

5.1 The competition is open for public registration, experts review and nominate winners, the organizing committee decides winners, and the organizer decides partners. No prequalification is required.

5.2 The results will be reviewed by publicly-known criteria. The Jury Committee of Experts will be responsible for the review. The Jury Committee will select winners by disclosed ballot, based on careful study and sufficient discussion of the result documents submitted by every participant.

5.3 The Jury Committee will consist of nine (9) internationally-known experts. Its members will have professional background in fields such as planning and urban design, architecture, structural mechanics, green and low carbon, economic investment.

5.4 Principles for Reviewing the Results:

(1) Works respond well to the issues raised in the assignment and solutions reveal clear ideas;

(2) Creativity is ingenious and conforms to low carbon and green concept. Meanwhile it is economical and feasible.

6. Rights and Awards

6.1 Competition Prize

1) For the demand creative competition, the top three (3) winners will be awarded “Gold Idea Prize” and ten (10) winners will be selected as “Gold Idea Finalists”. The first place will be awarded RMB 80,000, the second place RMB 50,000, and the third place RMB 20,000. The ten (10) “Gold Idea Finalists” will be awarded RMB 3000 each.

2) For the technology creative competition, no winning places will be set, but a number of short-listed technologies or products will be selected. They will be given priority in use in later construction of this project and will be demonstrated and promoted in later operation. Contestants who provide technology creative ideas but currently have no mature products will obtain extra R&D expenditure ranging from RMB 100,000 to 10,000,000 and support from the organizer in cooperative research. For details, see Annex 9. Those with mature products can discuss a purchase agreement with the organizer according to the procedures and regulations related to the purchase of construction engineering products. The finalists who fail to conclude a letter request or cooperation agreement with the organizer will obtain RMB 5,000 each as compensation.

3) For space creative competition, the top five (5) winners will be selected, with the first place awarded RMB 400,000, the second place RMB 200,000, the third place RMB 100,000, and the other two winners RMB 50,000 each.

6.2 Extra Bonus

1) Contestants whose creative ideas are adopted by the project will have opportunities to be invited to conduct joint design or joint technology R&D. A specific cooperation agreement will be further negotiated. The total engineering design fee for this project is no less than RMB 8.2564 million and the R&D expenditure is estimated at RMB 50 million.

2) Contestants whose creative ideas are adopted by the project will have opportunities to participate in the whole process of the project such as in design, construction, and operation. For example, they will be invited to first experiencers in the center in the future or as consultants. Specific methods will be further negotiated by the organizer and the contestants.

3) Contestants whose creative ideas are adopted by the project will later have the right of preemption of this project. Specific methods will be further formulated by the organizer.

6.3 Contestants who are not prize-winners or finalists will not get any competition compensation.

6.4 If the Jury Committee thinks that no entries come up to the winning requirements, the corresponding winning prize will be vacant.

6.5 The prizes stated in Section 6.1 include tax. Winners should provide tax paid invoice within China. The organizer will withhold individual’s tax on prize. The organizer will sign a payment agreement with each winner within twenty (20) working days after the announcement of the review results and pay competition prize within thirty (30) working days after the conclusion of the payment agreement.

All the costs for the competition shall be borne by contestants themselves.

6.6 As this project is invested, constructed, and operated by the organizer, the organizer will act as the first undertaker to jointly design and supervise this project to ensure the expected results.

6.7 Contestants have the copyright of their own competition result documents submitted for this competition. However, none of the competition result documents will be returned to the contestants after review. After the organizer pays the prize, the related rights and interests of the winners’ design results shall be jointly owned by the organizer and the winning participant and the organizer is entitled to use the winning program for free.

6.8 The organizer is entitled to freely publish and exhibit all the design results it receives from this competition and introduce, demonstrate and evaluate the competition result documents by media, specialized magazines, specialized books and periodicals, or any other means. Contestants have the right of authorship over the design result documents they submit.

6.9 All the competition result documents submitted must be originally created by contestants. They shall not contain any materials that infringe upon others’ intellectual property. If infringement occurs, the infringer shall be disqualified from participating in the competition and shall assume all legal responsibilities.

6.10 All the basic technical materials (texts, drawings, and electronic data) provided by the organizer to contestants are protected by copyright. Without authorization, no one shall copy, adapt, distribute, release, lend, or transfer them or disclose or use them by any other means. Otherwise, they shall bear related legal responsibilities..

6.11 Governing law: This international competition, as well as the competition management and all the design result documents, shall be governed and construed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China. Any dispute arising shall be settled through friendly consultation between both parties. The dispute, if not settled through consultation, shall be submitted to South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Shenzhen for arbitration in accordance with its rules of procedure. The arbitral award is final and binding upon both parties.

6.12 Confidentiality: After receiving the result documents submitted by contestants, the organizer shall take proper measures to ensure the confidentiality of the documents. Before the end of the review, no individual or organization is allowed to disclose, publicize, or show any of the competition result documents in any way. Otherwise, they shall assume related legal responsibilities.

7. Official Release Channels

Official registration website of Epenghui：http://epenghui.szibr.com

Competition info releasing website: http://www.szdesigncenter.org

Competition applying and result submitting website: http://competition.szdesigncenter.org

Consulting email：scd-competition@szdesigncenter.org

Contacts of the IBR organizer: Miss YU, Mr. LUO

Tel:（86）755-23950521

Contact of the SCD organizer: Miss LIANG

Tel:（86）755-83246532

8. Organizing Structure

The Competition Organizing Committee (hereinafter referred to as “Organizing Committee”) will be composed of seven members, including five representatives from the following organizations or companies, and two representative from noted public figures.

Leadership:     Urban Planning, Land & Resources Commission of Shenzhen Municipality

Shenzhen ILCC Planning and Development Office

Organizer: Shenzhen Institute of Building Research Co., Ltd.

Partner:    Shenzhen Center for Design

Technical Support:Urban Planning & Design Institute of Shenzhen