Green Efforts of Pingshan Library
Pingshan Library is located in Pingshan District, Shenzhen,Guangdong, China.
Pingshan Library has always integrated the green concept into the library's designs, operations, activities and development plans.
Pingshan Library is connected to Pingshan Central Park,sharing equipment with surrounding venues such as Pingshan Art Museum,Pingshan Central Book City and Pingshan Grand Theater.
The building of Pingshan Library is qualified as China’s Three-star Green Building Design which is the highest certification in China’s green building evaluation system.
The design highlights the concept of green community.There are LED lights reducing energy consumption by 50%-70%.
It installed solar panel roof converting the solar energy into electricity which meets the library's daily electricity demand of 10%-15%.
It applied advanced energy-saving technology,natural ventilation technology.There are also green spaces,rainwater recycling system,automated water-saving sanitary ware and green operations to reduce all kinds of consumption.
"Echo Study" is set up on the sixth floor of Pingshan Library,providing a long-term exhibition of natural handicraft culture for readers by incorporating books, pictures, and various handicraft products.
We have already launched Echo Summer Camp Series in 2019,leading children to observe seasonal changes, feel the beauty of nature, and raise attention to global warming.
We have already invited several famous naturalists and architects to share their studies and projects in 2019 and 2020.
We recorded these speeches,such as Green Speech Series,Pingshan Natural History Lecture series,and posted them on social media to promote green ideas.
We have already conducted Pingshan Natural History Book Award selection globally,which selects good books with strict and scientific attitudes, humanistic sentiments, conducive to realistic reform and beneficial to people’s life.
The selection also rewards writers with thoughts, visions and literary talents, and organizes co-reading activities on award-winning books to realize “Reading For All, Universal Immersion” with ecological awareness.
The Smart Library Project of Pingshan Library will greatly reduce carbon footprint.
