Mr. Tony Lee Luen Len, Chairman Green Building Council of Mauritius (GBCM), gave presentation on Built Environment for Social Goods at CII-IGBC 15th Green Building Congress 2017 event at Jaipur

1. USING THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT FOR
SOCIAL GOOD
tony lee luen len

2. Using The Built Environment for Social Good
• Why?
• What can we do for… ?
• Economic Prosperity
• Environmental Sustainability
• Social Equity
• Cultural Vitality
• Physical Safety & Comfort
• How?
• Systems Change
• Economics
• Partnerships/Collaboration
• ?

3. Why?

5. What can we do?

6. Sustainable Development Goals
Social Good

7. Built Environment - Community well-being
Physical Safety
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8. Economic Prosperity

9. Economic Prosperity
• Protection of local economy
• Training and skills development
• Employment of SME’s
• Joint ventures for empowerment
• Labour intensive production
• Employment creation
• Consideration of minorities
• Consideration of previously
disadvantaged individuals
• Circular economy
• Sharing economy
• ???

10. Environmental Sustainability
Source: USGBC/LEED

11. Environmental Sustainability
• Resilience
• Pollution control
• Use of natural resources
• Climate positive
• Renewables
• Water security
• Food security
• Indoor/Outdoor env. quality
• Healthy buildings and infra
• Biophilia
• Waste management
• Circular economy
• Sharing economy
• ???

12. Social Equity

13. Social Equity
• Removal of barriers
• Community Engagement
• Participatory decision making
• Affordable housing
• Access to employment
• Co-operatives
• Provision of common assets
• Placemaking
• Consideration of minorities
• Consideration of previously
disadvantaged individuals
• Inclusive planning & design
• Community shared spaces
• ?

14. Culutral Vitality
www.pps.org

15. Cultural Vitality
• Protection of cultural heritage
• Preservation and nurturing of
cultural identity
• Stimulation of cultural activities
• Diversity
• Community engagement
• Art and craft
• Valorisation of cultural activities
• Empowerment of local
community
• ???

16. Physical Safety & Comfort
Physical Safety
Affordable housing compound – Nigeria – © Chinwe Ohajuruka

17. Physical Safety & Comfort
• Health consideration
• Protection from harmful
materials
• Management of air quality
• Health and safety (site)
• Healthy buildings and infra
• Future proofing (climate, sea
level rise, riots, crime)
• ?

18. How?
“The greatest degree of sustainable benefits is derived when
resources are held jointly, and managed democratically for the good of all”
Elinor Ostrom – Nobel Prize winner

19. How?
• Innovation
• Systems change
• Economics
• Partnership and collaboration
• ?

20. Systems Change
• Questioning the status quo
• Innovation
• Think tanks
• New decision making processes
• New institutions
• New support ecosystems
• New economic model
• ?
• ?

21. • Implementation of Environmental
Accounting and Social
Accounting
• Linking Finance and Impact
(Green bonds/Social impact
bonds, preferential loans)
• Appropriate fiscal instruments
• Negative Impact Offsetting (e.g.
Replicate Carbon Market for other
issues)
Economics

22. Finance - Pay for success/Pay for performance
Source: Richmond Community Foundation

23. Finance - Social Impact Bonds
(Social Finance, Towards a
New Social Economy, 2010)

24. Partnerships/Collaboration
“The United Nations and its member
states are looking increasingly to the
power of partnerships, coalitions
among business, civil society, the
philanthropic and academic
communities to achieve the global
goals and address other global
challenges.” - Ban Ki Moon

25. Our initiatives for
building positive futures

26. Effective Governance/Collaborative Project - Mauritius
Regenerating Port Louis is an initiative
using a Public, Private, People
Partneship approach (Clinton Global
Initiative Commitment)
REGENERATING
PORT-LOUIS

27. Living Lab project - Mauritius
Saint Louis is a people-centric, organic
development project with aim to pioneer
new models of living for the future.

28. Saint Louis - Social Development Plan
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29. tony lee luen len
tony.lee@intnet.mu
+230 466 00 55
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