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General Anataporn Kanjanarat, Minister of Energy, presided over the Building Energy Code (BEC) Awards 2016 Ceremony

General Anataporn Kanjanarat, Minister of Energy, presided over the Building Energy Code (BEC) Awards 2016 Ceremony

Ministry of Energy’s Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE) awarded an accredited label of the energy efficiency building design to two of Fragrant Property’s projects: the Circle Living Prototype and the Circle Sukhumvit 11. Both projects design meets the ‘Building Energy Code’ (BEC) requirements as regulated by DEDE.

This ceremony was held to deliver accredited label of the energy efficiency building design for new building, both private and government buildings that meet all the requirements. DEDE have been assessing contending building designs that were sent in for evaluation during 2009-2015. There are 30 energy efficiency buildings which awarded ‘Good’ label. There are 24 buildings which awarded ‘Excellent’ label and 9 buildings were awarded ‘Outstanding’ label.

Mr. Praphon Wongtharua, DEDE director-general revealed that BEC accreditation label 2016 campaign is part of the government’s effort to promote and encourage both government and private sectors to give importance to designing green building in accordance to the Building Energy Code (BEC) requirements. The BEC standard enforcement should be presented to the Building Control Committee by November 2016.

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