Some photos from ECEB 07

The organisers of ECEB 07, the CHINA REAL ESTATE AND HOUSING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION-COUNCIL OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS and DIGIMEF Ltd, together with some of the major co-sponsors, have decided the date and the location of ECEB 08 (European Edition).

This event will provide the Chinese participants in ECEB 07 with the opportunity to follow up the developments in Europe of some of the major topics discussed in Shanghai, as well with the possitiblity to estalish and consolidate a valuable European network of relationships in several areas :

- Governments and Institutions
- Business Partners
- Financial Institutions
- Experts and scientific community

For more information, for participating in the organising and in the steering committes, as well as for the best sponsoring opportunities, please contact abenazzo@eceb07.org

The AD about ECEB 07 is on page 3

Below the very interesting SUMMARY


Message from the Chairman
By Cyrill Eltschinger

A very attractive program of sponsoring has been carefully framed for the Euro-China Energy-Efficient Buildings Forum 2007.

As a matter of fact, it really is a program of BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP in view of mutually profitable developments.

- For European Companies not yet present in China, it is an excellent opportunity to show-case their products, services and technologies, to enhance their value, to meet and select, if appropriate, the best JV partners or the best distributors.

- For European Companies already present in China, it is the way to confirm and reinforce their role and their position.

- More important, it is an excellent opportunity for Chinese companies to show-case their strenghts and their strategies to the most interesting European companies, to then become their partners, in China as well as in Europe, to jointly broaden their international market shares.

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Digimef Ltd (www.digimef.net) the promoter of ECEB 07, is discussing with the Authorities of Cantone Ticino (The Swiss Riviera on Lake Maggiore and Lake of Lugano), to establish in the Region the European pole of its business model.


Digimef is active in organising and coordinating business relationships between Europe and China and promotes :

- Flows of technologies, strategies and management from Europe to China
- Flows of entrepreneurial interests and initiatives, as well as finance, from China to Europe

To do so, Digimef identifies some of the most interesting business areas related to the Chinese economy growth and organises one or more large and visible networking events in China, to bring together and catalyse some of the best Chinese actors in the field, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, businessmen, Government officers, etc.

In a second step, Digimef, invites to Europe the same Chinese actors and organises targeted and focused events, to connect them with the appropriate and interested European counterparts in view of mutually profitable business developments.


Cantone Ticino, one of the three Swiss Financial Centers, can provide excellent financial and legal skills, together with highly competent corporate investments counseling and with outstanding hospitality structure and congress facilities.

China's largest buildings currently cover nearly 43 billion square meters of floor space, yet only 4 percent of them have adopted energy-efficiency measures, primarily for heating. The total bill for retrofitting these structures is estimated to be at least 1.5 trillion yuan (US$193 billion), according to Qiu Baoxing, vice minister of the Ministry of Construction. But Qiu also notes that retrofitting buildings with energy-efficient technologies can save China at least 150 million tons of standard coal annually as well as some 600 billion yuan (US$77 billion) in costs, equivalent to the electricity generated by four Three Gorges Dam projects, People's Daily reported.

The Chinese government considers the adoption of energy-efficient technologies in buildings to be a promising path to ease the expanding energy crisis. The country's latest five-year plan (2006-10) calls for energy savings of 50 percent for new buildings nationwide and up to 65 percent for buildings in four large municipalities (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing). In early 2006, the government issued a design standard for energy conservation to encourage contractors to use energy-efficient materials and adopt energy-saving technologies for heating, cooling, ventilating, and lighting public buildings.