CapitaMall LuOne in Shanghai underwent AEI and obtained US Green Building Council LEED Gold Certification.

Energy and Water Efficiency

• Designed to achieve more than 20% reduction in energy consumption which will help to mitigate more than 3,565 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.

• Utilises low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants.

• Its wide range of energy-saving features include an on-demand ventilation system to reduce energy consumption of its air conditioning system, high-efficiency chillers with coefficient performance of 5.61, daylight sensors and high-efficiency lighting system, high performance building envelope and variable speed pumps.

• Its irrigation systems use harvested rainwater to reduce its dependency on potable water for irrigation of its external landscape. In addition, integrating low-flow water-saving features in the mall would result in a reduction in potable water use by 43%.

Conducive Indoor Environmental Quality and Stakeholder Comfort

• Boosts the largest indoor garden atrium in Shanghai with over 16 species of vegetation, providing a biophilic environment to its shoppers and tenants.

• Achieved the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) indoor air quality standard with a 30% improvement against ASHRAE 62.1-2007 in fresh air ventilation rate to improve thermal comfort of the mall for tenants and shoppers. It used building materials such as concrete/glass with a high solar reflection to reduce ambient heat effect.

Circularity - Sustainable Building Material and Construction Waste Management

• Materials with recycled content constituted more than 30% of total materials cost used during the AEI.

• 86% of the materials were locally sourced within 500 km.

• The contractors diverted more than 98% of its onsite generated construction waste from landfill.