Enabling Innovation: Smart Cities

Smart Living
UK-China Opportunities
19 October 2012
Alan Kell OBE
Managing Director, Intelligent & Green Systems
Limited
EU-China Representative, UK-China Eco-cities &
Green Building Group
alan.kell@igsystems.co.uk

Intelligent & Green

The Route to 21st Century
Sustainability
Sustainable City

Digital City

Eco-town

Connected
Community

Green Building

Intelligent
Building

Demonstrating
Whats Possible
1998
The INTEGER
Millennium
House

2001
Implementing
Intelligent & Green
&

2005
UK - China
Cooperation

UK-China Eco-cities &

Green Building Group
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed
by the British Ambassador & Vice Minister
Qiu Baoxing, Ministry of Housing & UrbanRural Development
Chinese Co-chairs: Professor Wang Youwei,
China Green Building Council and Dr Li Xun,
Chinese Society for Urban Studies
UK Co-Chairs: Industry Representative;
Mr Steve OLeary, UK Trade & Investment ;
Stephen Phillips CBBC

I&G Systems UK Capabilities Research

Working closely with UK Trade & Investment and the Foreign &
Commonwealth Office
Comprehensive studies of UK Capabilities and best practice in
the areas of both Eco Cities and more recently Smart Cities

Analysing and communicating UK expertise

Encouraging partnerships and consortia building


UK-China Eco-cities &
Green Building
Value Chain

The UKs special capabilities to

support the value-chain that is
essential to deliver this roadmap
are illustrated here, and described
below.

Economic

Social
Environmental

City Development Opportunities In China

Eco & Sustainable Cities

Smart & Digital Cities

Massive scale of development

New eco city standards being
developed
Up to 300 cities, 247 already
identified, new and existing
Focus on energy efficiency and
carbon reduction

New initiatives in many Chinese

Cities, supported by the Digital Cities
programme led by M.O.S.T.
Lux research - 53 projects with a total
investment of $153bn in next 5 years.
Chinese Smart Grid - $500bn by
2030

UK-China in Partnership.

Building a bridge to a sustainable

Working with China in the UK and EU

TSB Smart Cities Programme

BIS/BSI Smart City Standards
Lead UK Cities
EU-China Partnership for Urbanisation
UK-China Mayors Forum
Third markets

Extensive project and joint venture

opportunities