Asia Sustainability

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Message from Chief Executive, Asia

Our world is under stress. We face acute population pressures, the demands of industrial growth and
the pains that accrue from rapid economic development. In Asia, this issue is particularly relevant
given that we are in the world’s fastest evolving region both economically and socially. Countries like
China and India have already raised the development stakes as their economies begin to rival those of
the West. The resulting impacts to communities and the environment are testimony to this situation.
For example, China’s total carbon emissions have already outstripped those of the US, making China
the world’s largest single emitter; and the depletion of natural resources in the rest of Asia has
reached levels of global concern with far-reaching implications. Sustainability is key to our survival if
we are to pass on a planet fit for future generations.

We at AECOM are working to tackle this challenge. Through our multi-disciplinary approach, we serve
our clients in many different arenas to develop sustainable answers for their needs. We take pride
in the fact that over the years we have fostered sustainability globally, as well as in Asia, within our
services and our operations, before many other firms had even considered sustainability as an issue.

Today, we are experiencing trends such as the loss of natural resources, climate change and
increasing waste quantities and we confront the possibility of irreversible change at a global scale if
nothing is done. Our team in Asia is pressing ahead to address the urgency of this problem. We apply
our local expertise and global insights to provide clients with professional sustainability solutions.
Within our service offerings to clients, we furthermore believe in ‘walking the talk’ by holistically
integrating sustainability into our operations.

We would like to take this opportunity to share with you our ideas on how we can achieve
sustainability together for now - and for the future.

Tony C.K. Shum

Chief Executive, Asia
AECOM

Bengbu Longzi Lake Masterplan, Bengbu, China

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Introduction
Asia is home to more than half of the world’s humanity. It
encompasses a broad range of diversity - geographically,
socially and culturally. The past few decades have seen
an unprecedented explosion of development in the region
through the growth of cities and infrastructure. While
this has enriched the living standards of many, we must
consider sustainability issues in the light of all this rapid
growth.

Climate change
Climate change is one of the gravest challenges of modern
times. The rising level of carbon dioxide – one of the main
greenhouse gases - in the atmosphere is a result of the
combustion of fossil fuels to meet our energy needs; and
the consequences are dire. Rising sea levels and climatic
disasters such as typhoons and flooding, on the one hand,
and catastrophic droughts on the other, are impacts we are
encountering in Asia. Scientific evidence indicates a direct
correlation between these occurrences and the rising levels
of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Tackling the effects
of climate change will therefore require strategies of a new
kind.

Water Usage
Water resources are being exhausted for domestic
and industrial purposes resulting in water scarcities in
many regions of northern Asia and elsewhere. Growing
populations, agricultural demands, industrial use and
changing lifestyle patterns have all contributed to this
situation.

Energy
Power plant, Southern China Garden No.5, Shenzhen, China
The shift of many of the world’s manufacturing industries
to Asia due to cheap labor and low overheads, as well as
the challenge of housing the continent’s urban populations, AECOM at the Forefront of What can we do for you?
The following are highlights of our sustainability expertise
have placed severe demands on power and energy to drive
the national economies and maintain adequate living levels. Sustainability and what we do for clients.
Many countries still rely on fossil fuels like oil and coal
which, apart from climate change concerns, have severe At AECOM, we place sustainability as a priority in the -- Energy and climate change
environmental impacts on air, water and soil. assignments we undertake for our clients. We work in -- Property developers and architects
partnership with clients to strive for the twin goals of -- Transport authorities and planners
Natural resources project excellence and sustainability principles. In Asia,
Asia’s biodiversity is slowly eroding. Rainforests, wetlands this is becoming crucial as emerging nations like China and -- Managing resources
and natural habitats - stabilizing factors in eco-systems India and others take up their place as advanced economies -- Government and private developers
- are being depleted at a fast rate to make room for creating an imperative for future development in this region -- Industrial clients
development. This unchecked erosion is changing the to be sustainable.
landscape with potentially irreversible consequences. -- Sustainable communities
For many years, AECOM has been at the forefront of -- Development agencies
Pollution delivering innovative and sustainable planning and
Developing economies are linked to growing quantities of engineering solutions for clients. Our presence in all of the
industrial and consumer waste. As populations in Asia major cities in Asia ensures that we possess the right skills
expand, significant amounts of solid and liquid wastes and knowledge to enhance and sustain the world’s built,
are generated which must be disposed of. Industry, too, is natural and social environments. We are committed to
responsible for generating large amounts of toxic waste, being proactive in balancing economic development with
which has to be safely treated to protect communities environmental stewardship and social development.
before final disposal. The handling capacity of waste
treatment and disposal facilities to cope with existing
and future loads must be taken into consideration for
sustainability to be achieved.
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Sustainable Building Design for the Tianjin Binhai Hotel and

Yacht Club, Tianjin, China
Located on reclaimed land, this hotel and resort project
offers luxury services to its guests and members while
harnessing sustainability practices. The aim of this project
was to design energy management systems according to
the layout of the buildings and their shapes which were
long, joint-less and asymmetric.

As building engineers to our clients, Rainbow Land

Holdings Ltd., we worked against a fast-track design and
construction program to develop appropriate and cost-
effective carbon solutions.

Our final designs included:

-- Heat recovery exhaust systems throughout the hotel
-- Individual room energy management systems so that
guests could control their own living spaces
-- Tinted windows and glass doors to reduce solar glare
-- Door sensors to switch air conditioning off when doors are
left open

Working with our client, we helped create a sustainable

hotel resort with luxury rating. The resort received the
LEED certification award in recognition of its performance.

Our Building Engineering team in Asia provides:

Yingze Streetscape, Taiyuan, China -- Building façade analysis Kai Tak Development, Hong Kong

-- Building envelope analysis

Energy and climate change
Property developers and architects
In Asia, the migration of people to urban cities is prominent
for many of the developing economies. By 2025, China alone
will have over 200 cities with more than 1 million inhabitants
and more than 20 cities with more than 5 million. The
built environment is thus a key area where occupants and
users of the many different types of buildings – residential,
commercial and industrial – will have a marked carbon
impact through the quantities of energy consumed.
At AECOM, we work closely with property developers and
architects to incorporate design features in buildings to
achieve energy and environmental improvements and, at
the same time, enhance the property’s aesthetic qualities
and asset value. Our dedicated building engineering
sustainability team focuses on application of building
physics in sustainable building design, energy auditing,
sustainability embedded MEP design and building
certification including China Green Building Certification
(Green Star), LEED, HK-BEAM, BREEAM and Green Mark to
ensure that our clients’ buildings achieve the best possible
rating in recognition of their sustainability excellence.
-- Computational fluid dynamics analysis
Transport Authorities and Planners
The transport sector is a major source of carbon emissions
-- Daylighting and shading analysis
from air, marine and land modes. Worldwide, roughly 14
-- Micro climate analysis
percent of emissions come from this sector, with three
-- Whole building energy modeling
quarters coming from road vehicles. In Asia, the growth
of vehicles is directly related to economic development.
Annual vehicle growth in India has increased by 20 percent
each year since 2000, while China’s has grown eight-fold in
the last decade to 160 million vehicles currently on the road.
The challenge facing governments and transport planners is
how to deploy measures to manage these vehicles and the
road networks needed to accommodate them.
In Asia, our transportation experts work with transport
authorities and planners to promote sustainable modes of
transport by improving the efficiency of transport networks
and infrastructure as well as developing efficient public
transport strategies and alternative means of transport
facilities. Reduced vehicle usage leads to less carbon
emissions as well as a better environment with less air and
noise pollution.
Sustainable Transport Strategy for the Kai Tak Development
Hong Kong
Tianjin Binhai Hotel and Yacht Club, Tianjin, China
The Kai Tak area by Victoria Harbour is the site of Hong
Kong’s old international airport. Now unused, the Hong
Kong SAR Government plans to turn the area into an
attractive people-oriented district.
Our pedestrian strategy ensures that the most prominent
public facilities and amenities will fall within a comfortable
5-minute walking radius of public transportation with
an experiential excursion along the harbor-front and
neighboring open spaces, which includes a heritage trail
of historic interest. Our public transport strategy focuses
on using the transportation hub to allow the convenient
transfer of people between public transport facilities
through an automatic people-mover (APM) system to convey
visitors and residents to places of interest and activity
including a proposed luxury cruise terminal and a world-
class future stadium.
The outputs of the project are:
-- Optimization of the waterfront for public enjoyment
-- Enhancement of accessibility of harbour-front with the
adjacent districts
-- Adoption of appropriate development density for quality
living environment
-- Provision of open space network, breezeways and
continuous waterfront promenade
-- Preservation of the ridgeline of scenic tourism sites such
as Lion Rock and Kowloon Peak
The benefits to the client, the Hong Kong SAR Government,
include a distinguished and vibrant location to attract
tourists and enhance communal life using sustainable
transport modes to do so.

Working with the Government as the appointed transport Our Transportation team in Asia provides:
planning and design consultant, AECOM has come up with -- Demand management schemes
a novel approach through pedestrian and public transport -- Pedestrian strategies
strategies to create a people- friendly environment with -- Transport network analysis
a multi-modal transportation hub. A mono-rail transport -- Public transport strategies
system is proposed to minimize road-based traffic entering -- Traffic engineering design
the area. -- Traffic management planning
-- Transport policy formulation
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Managing Resources
Governments and Private Developers
Over 1 billion people worldwide currently lack a safe
and adequate water supply. Protecting and enhancing
water resources for new developments in Asia are the
underpinning goals for all of AECOM water-related
projects. Our water services experts deliver water
resources protection strategies to governments and private
developers together with water balance models to plan for
water usage. We also conduct low water studies to ensure
sustainable water resources for present and future users.
Rainwater Harvesting and Reuse in Tinjan Dongli Lake
Community, Tianjin, China
The Tinjan Dongli Lake development, located in Northern
China, comprises a 6.5-hectare residential community
centered around a wetland park. The runoff from the
community is collected to supply water to the wetland park
and for landscape irrigation. In addition, the community
can access this water source through a system of internal
canals.
The aim of this project was to alleviate water scarcity
through rainwater harvesting and reuse; at the same time
overcoming constraints caused by high development
density, including limited space for facilities.
At AECOM, we successfully integrated stormwater best
management practices (BMP) into landscape design to
promote rainwater harvesting and, at the same time,
maintain a scenic landscape for recreational application
through the following measures:
-- Swales, rain gardens and detention basins as the three
major types of stormwater BMPs selected
-- Placement of BMPs according to building type areas, eg
villa, medium-rise and high-rise
-- Use of permeable materials in the landscape design to
reduce stormwater runoff
-- Reduced pollutant loading and flow velocity in the
wetland through pre-treatment near the stormwater
runoff source which helps to control erosion and preserve
a healthy wetland ecosystem
Our specialists from the landscape and stormwater system
design disciplines further enhanced the water harvesting
efficiency in the limited available space by embedding
BMPs into landscape spaces. An example is the use of a
sunken playground which also serves as a detention pond
as necessary. Plant species are also specially selected to
reduce irrigation demand.
The outputs of the project consist of a rainwater harvesting
plan that is integrated with community development and
a stormwater management plan that provides conveyance
capacity for a 25-year sequence of flooding.
Benefits to the Tinjan Dingli Lake Community Development
include an integrated rainwater harvesting strategy that will
ensure abundant water resources and manage flooding as
well as provide an aesthetic setting for its people.
Our Water specialists in Asia provide:
-- Low water studies
-- Water resources protection strategies
-- Drainage and flood control strategies
-- Watershed planning
-- Sludge reuse facilities
-- Water /Wastewater treatment facilities design
Tinjan Dongli Lake Community, Tianjin, China
Sustainability
Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park, Shanghai, China
Industrial Clients
Managing resources includes reducing pollution from
industrial sources. Discharge of liquid effluent to
waterways is damaging to eco-systems and the improper
disposal of industrial waste has long-term consequences
to humans, as well as other species. Many Asian cities
have reached critical levels of pollution in the atmosphere,
water and ground. Our team of environmental scientists,
economists, planners and designers work to ensure
that our approach to pollution reduction is grounded in
environmental planning principles which offer our industrial
clients adaptable and lasting solutions.
Natural Wastewater Treatment Plant at Shanghai Chemical
Industrial Park, Shanghai, China
Located on the coast of Hangzhou Bay, the 30 km2 Shanghai
Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP) consists of a series of
modern petrochemical industrial facilities that discharge
industrial wastewater as a by-product of the processes.
The aim of this project was to treat the wastewater to a safe
level in order to maintain water quality standards in the
vicinity and at the same time provide aesthetic character
and preserve wildlife habitats.
AECOM’s natural wastewater treatment system is designed
to treat over 22,000 m3 per day of partially-treated industrial
wastewater with effluent polishing facilities to recycle the
water back to the industrial plants for reuse until it can be
finally discharged into Hangzhou Bay following strict water
quality standards.
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Our design consists of:
-- Up-front trickle filter (for ammonia removal)
-- Shallow oxidizing pond for Chemical Oxygen Demand
(COD) removal
-- Two parallel constructed wetland systems (for nitrate,
Biochemical Oxygen Demand, COD, and heavy metal
removal)
The output of the project is a natural wastewater treatment
site that also serves as a recreational hub for SCIP’s
employees and visitors housed in a wetland complex which
is currently being used as a research center for academic
groups to study wetland ecology in the greater Shanghai
area.
Benefits to the client include a unique project within
China marking the onset of a new model for natural water
treatment systems.
Our Environmental Planning team in Asia provides:
-- Resources assessment
-- Soil / geotechnical analysis
-- Ecological assessment and design
-- Habitat restoration and creation plans
-- Nature reserve and eco-tourism planning, design and
constructed wetlands management
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AECOM is a recognized leader in integrated environmental

management. Working with industrial clients in Asia we
assist in facility planning as well as resource management
which includes assessing environmental and social
impacts. We also support facilities in environmental health
and safety (EHS) management systems and training, EHS
compliance, environmental & occupational monitoring and
qualitative risk assessment (QRA).

Integrated Environmental Management at Central Park,

LOHAS Park, TKO Area 86, Hong Kong
LOHAS park is located on a 1.3 hectare site area together
with a one-storey building at the Tseung Kwan O Area 86
in Hong Kong. This area is a new town development where
Coca-Cola Campus, Shanghai, China
the client, the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, intends
to set a new standard of sustainability design through
an integrated environmental and energy management
approach.

As the sustainability design and environmental consultant
for the project, AECOM carried out the following areas of
work:
-- CFD and daylight modeling techniques (including
microclimate optimization around buildings,
overshadowing and views, cross flow natural ventilation
investigation in residential flats, thermal comfort
evaluation, and natural daylighting evaluation)
-- Acoustic design (including equipment noise evaluation,
room acoustical design, noise isolation evaluation, indoor
vibration assessment)
-- On site measurement (including electromagnetic flux
density measurement, indoor air quality monitoring and
background noise measurement)
The final output is a comprehensive sustainable design plan
for LOHAS Park based on state-of-the-art solutions.
Our client, the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, is not only
realizing the benefits of energy reductions and minimized
environmental impacts but also the added bonus of HK-
BEAM certification in acknowledgement of the project’s
innovative and integrated design.
At the corporate level, we consult for a number of
multinational and local clients on sustainability reporting
as well as on how to develop corporate social responsibility
(CSR) practices and policies.
Our services include compliance and due diligence auditing,
supply chain management and carbon footprinting.
Our Environmental Management team in Asia
provides:
-- Environmental impact assessment and permitting
-- Regulatory support
-- Waste management advice
-- Quantitative risk assessment
-- EHS management systems
-- Compliance auditing
-- Environmental & occupational monitoring
-- Supply chain management audits
-- Corporate EHS reports
-- Corporate social responsibility advice
-- Greenhouse gas inventory reports
-- Soil and groundwater investigation
-- Remediation of contaminated land
-- Asbestos sampling and surveying

LOHAS Park, TKO Area 86, Hong Kong

Shandong Environment Project, Package A, Shandong, China

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Shenzhen Eastern Coastal, Shenzhen, China
Sustainable Communities
Development Agencies
Sustainable communities lie at the heart of sustainability.
Asia’s diversity of societies and culture means that we must
come up with planning and engineering solutions that are
sensitive to the needs of communities according to their
location, environment and usage. Through our synthesis
of science-based planning and idea-driven design, we at
AECOM have the expertise to deliver responsible land use
solutions to development agencies that respond to limited
carrying capacities. The aim of our work is to prevent the
fragmentation of habitats, enhance biodiversity, meet
energy efficiency, water sensitive and cost-effective
requirements, and avoid the use of non-renewable
resources and non-recyclable materials.
Designing a Sustainable Community for the Houshayu
Community Project, Beijing, China
Period: 2009 – 2012
As the mainland Chinese government starts to take
more responsibility in tackling the deteriorating global
environment, a low carbon development approach is
becoming the mainstream philosophy for designing
sustainable communities. In the Houshayu Community
Project, a mixed development located in Beijing, the aim
was to use retail, townhouse, high-rise residential, office
and hotel developments - with a total construction area of
520,000 m2 – as a sustainable development for community
use.
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As the design and planning consultant to the client, Cofco
Property Co. Ltd., AECOM developed a transport and energy
strategy to suit the community’s needs.
We prepared a transport circulation system siting each
dwelling within 800 metres from a public transport node
which acts as the focal point for access and where a variety
of transport services are available. Additional bus stops are
provided at spacings of 250 ~300 metres from the central
hub along local bus routes. To reduce vehicle congestion,
inhabitants are not allocated dedicated parking spaces
rather they have restricted parking permits. This allows
a significant reduction in parking spaces needed. Also,
businesses are allowed to use parking spaces for their
employees when residents vacate them during the daytime.
From an energy perspective, our passive energy designs
have been shown to reduce residential energy consumption
by nearby 20 percent over baseline levels. Community
energy infrastructure, using a combination of gas-powered
combined heat and power (CHP) and ground source heat
pumps, further provides a good compromise between
energy usage, CO2 emission reductions and fuel cost
savings.
The outputs of the project are a sustainable community
plan for the Houshayu community minimizing their impacts
from transport and energy.
Benefits to the client, Cofco Property Co. Ltd., include CO2
and cost reductions of 40 and 30 percent respectively over
the baseline.
Our Planning, Design and Development specialists in
Asia provide:
-- Sustainable development planning and design
-- Carrying dapacity analysis
-- Cultural resource management
-- Visual impact analysis
-- Resource data management and system development
-- Geographic Information System (GIS)
-- Sustainable design and energy management
Houshayu Community Project, Beijing, China
Shenzhen Eastern Coastal, Shenzhen, China
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Staff working at AECOM Asia office
Greening Our Operations
At AECOM, we believe that sustainability does not just
come from outside project drivers - we also act internally
to take responsibility for our own actions. In 2008, we set
up the Office of Corporate Sustainability (OCS) within our
company.
Through the OCS and its network of sustainability
champions in Asia, we have achieved the following:
-- Set up office greening targets
-- Collected baseline information on the company’s carbon
footprint for traveling, electricity usage, paper usage and
waste paper generated
-- Set up reduction mechanisms and targets to lower our
overall impacts
-- Promoted a green work-life style including:
-- Segregated waste bins
-- Video conference facilities in offices
-- Control timers for light switches
-- Reminders to switch off computers/lights when leaving
the office
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Corporate Sustainability Policy
Our Mission
To enhance and sustain the world’s built, natural and social
environments.
Our Commitment
AECOM is committed to follow, promote and implement
good sustainability practice and apply global sustainability
principles to the way we do business and the way we satisfy
our clients’ needs. We are committed to being proactive
in balancing economic development with environmental
stewardship and social development.
Our Principles
Our policy is based on the following principles:
-- To comply with, and exceed where practicable, all
applicable legislation, regulations and codes of practice
-- To integrate sustainability considerations into all our
business decisions and design
-- To communicate and explain our Sustainability Policy to
all employees and to encourage improvement of policy
where appropriate
-- To make clients and suppliers aware of our Sustainability
Policy, and encourage and advise them to adopt sound
sustainable management practices
-- To provide sustainability service to clients, i.e., help them
develop and implement sustainability plans
-- To give consideration to the social and environmental
impacts of our activities, services, decisions with a view
to maximizing sustainability
Song Mountain National Nature Reserve, Beijing, China -- To review annually our Sustainability Policy and to strive
to improve our sustainability performance
The OCS reports and monitors monthly results. Through the
activities of the office, we aim to enhance staff awareness
through organizing sustainability-related events such as
beach cleaning, tree planting and outreach to communities.
Investing in the Future
The future of this planet depends on the actions we take
today. At AECOM we are committed to the principles of
sustainability which we embed both in our projects and
assignments and in our day-to-day operations.
We offer the following three investments of time, money and
dedication for the future:
-- Investing in partnerships with our clients to find
sustainable solutions that meet global challenges and at
the same time create value for our clients
-- Investing in our staff to nurture the right skills, knowledge
and approach to sustainability in their work and lives
-- Investing in leadership that demonstrates AECOM’s
unwavering focus on the future of this region and the
importance of Asia as part of the world’s long term
sustainability
We hope that you will join us in our quest.
About AECOM

AECOM (NYSE: ACM) is a global provider of

professional technical and management support
services to a broad range of markets, including
transportation, facilities, environmental, energy,
water and government. With approximately 45,000
employees around the world, AECOM is a leader
in all of the key markets that it serves. AECOM
provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge,
innovation, and collaborative technical excellence
in delivering solutions that enhance and sustain the
world’s built, natural, and social environments. A
Fortune 500 company, AECOM serves clients in more
than 100 countries and has annual revenue in excess
of $6 billion.

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