Published over 20 annual environmental reports and sustainability reports in total, Architectural Services Department (ArchSD) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is dedicated to promote sustainability and innovativeness in construction of buildings. With the topic of Journey to Innovative Construction, the 16th annual sustainability report continues to present our initiatives and performance on economic, environmental and social aspects in 2018.
In addition to demonstration of our achievement during the reporting year, this report also emphasise our commitment to serving better in the future with continuous efforts and improvement in sustainability.
The Sustainability Report 2019 ('the Report') highlights ArchSD's key sustainability initiatives and achievement from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. The Report covers the sustainability performance and initiatives of our six functional branches and two Central Management Divisions. Data in the Report are presented as absolute figures as of 31 December 2018 (unless otherwise stated) to the best of our knowledge. Financial data are reported for the financial year ended 31 March 2019. All monetary values are in Hong Kong Dollars.
This Report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards: Core option of the Sustainability Reporting Standards as well as the Environmental Protection Department's A Guide to Environmental Reporting for Controlling Officers and the Director of Information Services' memo dated 20 October 2016 – 'Guidelines on preparation of annual departmental reports'.
The GRI Content Index correlates GRI disclosures with associated sections in the Report. An independent third party was engaged to assure the materiality, credibility and reliability of the Report and ensure its attainments to the Core option of GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards. We also went through the GRI 'Materiality Disclosures Service' to ensure General Disclosures 102-40 to 102-49 were correctly located and can be easily found by readers.
The Report is published online in web-based interactive html version and PDF version. The Report is available in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. The interface has been prepared in accordance with the Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. In addition, the Report can also be viewed by tablet computers. Key features of the Report are highlighted as follows:
