Environmental		Social		Economic
		Stakeholder Engagement		Major Achievements/Awards

Environmental

• Created a healthy, environmentally friendly, and sustainable living environment for tenants through microclimate studies at the planning and design stage of all new public housing developments. 
• Introduced a pilot vertical green panel system on the external wall of buildings in Phase 4 in the Eastern Harbour Crossing Site that provides a greener environment to explore the potential benefits of improved heat insulation as well as acting as noise and dust barriers. 
• Required our contractors to implement Water Recycling Systems for all projects involving Large Diameter Bore Piling Works as well as the construction of new buildings, piling and civil engineering projects. 
• Implemented "hard-paved construction" at all our building, and piling sites, thus reducing dust generation and improving drainage on site. 
• Expanded the use of innovative technology for precast concrete facades, staircases and semi-precast slabs to the construction of the superstructure of the Kwai Chung Flatted Factory, employing volumetric precasting techniques.  60% of the concrete work of this project was of precast or prefabricated technology.  This technology reduces dust, noise and waste generation at construction sites as well as providing safer and cleaner sites for workers.
• Incorporated a solar photovoltaic system into the design of the redevelopment of Lam Tin Phases 7 and 8 to supplement the power supply for some communal facilities. 
• Reduced energy consumption at HA office premises by 7.88% compared to consumption in 2005/06. 
• Significantly increased aluminium can and plastic bottle recovery in existing estates, with recycling rates of 28.3% and 6.2 % respectively.
• Increased the quantity of waste paper collected in HA offices by 5.36% compared to that in 2005/06.

Social

• Accident rate for new works construction sites dropped from 55.8 per thousand workers in 2001 to 11.5 in 2006.   
• Added three more hygiene-related misdeeds to the Marking Scheme for Estate Management Enforcement in Public Housing Estates to reflect the increased scope of the scheme to consider health aspects of Public Rental Housing (PRH).
• Extended the smoking restriction to all common areas, both indoors and outdoors within housing estates, except at designated outdoor areas, to ensure that such facilities will result in minimal disruption and nuisance to other estate residents. 
• Introduced stringent measures into services contracts to protect the wages, working hours and the rights of non-skilled workers.
• Re-allocated 3 533 flats to eligible applicants under the Express Flat Allocation Scheme.
• Allocated 18 700 flats to Waiting List applicants, bringing the total number of PRH flats in use to 677 800.
• Re-housed 520 overcrowded households into larger flats.
• Introduced the Accelerated Refurbishment-On-Demand process to speed up the reletting and refurbishment of vacant flats, which shortened the re-letting period from 57 to 34 days on average.
• Introduced the Alternative Counter Collection Channel, a Rent Enquiry Hotline, a pilot Auto-dialling Rent Reminder, a Direct Rent Payment arrangement to ease payment of rents.

Economic

• Improved the living environment and building durability and safety through the Total Maintenance Scheme.
• Improved our financial position through divestment of commercial properties, and sale of surplus Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flats.
• Introduced a new income-based Public Rental Housing (PRH) rent adjustment mechanism that provides for both upward and downward domestic rent adjustments based on movement in the income index which reflects changes in household income of PRH tenants.
• Rolled out a phased programme for sale of 16 600 surplus HOS flats. The first phase was launched in January 2007.
• Achieved construction costs for the superstructures of our new developments that are 40% lower than that of projects in the private sector of similar scope.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Maintain an ongoing dialogue with the contractors in the construction industry, property management and maintenance industries to ensure delivery of quality products and services.
• Collaborated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to run a part-time Certificate Course in Public Housing Agency Management.
• Informed our tenants, our staff and the general public of our activities and achievements through a wide range of media.
• Launched a mini website called "Environmental Estates" to promote greater understanding of our green initiatives.
• Launched "Action Seedling" under the Community Participation Scheme to motivate contractors to undertake their corporate social responsibility and encourage community participation in the greening of new housing estates at an early stage.
• Engaged the local community through workshops to collect public views and engage the community not only in the design and planning of projects but also the facilities they would like to see in their community.
• Unveiled a mural in Yau Tong Estate which amalgamated the 25 winning entries submitted by the estate residents and school children in the "Lets Give Yau Tong a New Look" mural design competition.
• Conducted a three-month public consultation on the review of our domestic rent policy, which aims to develop a rent policy that would be more flexible, establish a closer link with tenants' affordability and help to promote the long-term sustainability of the public housing programme.
• Actively sought feedback from our stakeholders on our performance to understand what is expected of us as a socially responsible organization.
• Rolled out the second phase of the long-term community environmental education programme, "Green Delight in Estates", across a further 30 estates through sustained and in-depth community activities in collaboration with Green Groups.

Major Achievements/Awards

We continued to reap awards in 2006/07. We provide a listing of achievements: 

• Our use of micro-climate studies won a Special Architectural Award for Architectural Research in the Hong Kong Institute of Architects Annual Awards 2006 and a Merit award in the Hong Kong Institute of Planners Award 2007.
• Our installation exhibit of Public Housing Development in Hong Kong was selected to be part of the Hong Kong's exhibit at the Venice Biennale International Exhibition, which eventually achieved an Award for Members Work outside of Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Institute of Architects Annual Awards 2006.
• Our study on the "Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing Study" of Building Materials and Components has achieved a Merit award in the Green Building Award 2006 (Research and Planning Studies Category) organised by the Professional Greening Building Council.
• Our "Garden of Felicity" display, based on the theme "Cherishing the Family", won the Gold Award for Design Excellence (Landscape Display) in the 2007 Hong Kong Flower Show organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
• Tsz Ching Estate was awarded the Grand Prize for the Green Property Management Award (Public Housing) Eco-business award.
• The HA has retained the "Gold Wastewi$e Logo" for the sixth consecutive year in the Wastewi$e scheme organised by the Environmental Protection Department.