Taipei 101 has won the Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award (AREA), Taipei Financial Center Corp (TFCC), which operates the building, announced on Saturday.
TFCC said that Taipei 101 won the prize in the “Green Leadership” category, making it the first company in Taiwan to win in the category.
TFCC chairman Joseph Chou (周德宇) received the award at a ceremony held in Singapore.
Chou said his company’s has devoted itself to operating Taipei 101 in an eco-friendly manner in a bid to make a contribution to the Earth.
The award would make people in Taiwan proud of the firm’s efforts to build a green environment, he said.
Taipei 101’s energy recycling rate has reached 75 percent, while power consumption was last year reduced by 9.4 million kilowatt hours from the 2008 level, TFCC said.
It also provides “Green Tours” to more than 1,000 people every year to raise awareness of environmental protection, TFCC said.
the Infinite Life sculpture in front of the building, which was made using discarded cable from the Taipei 101 Observatory’s high-speed elevator, impressed the AREA jury, TFCC said.
The sculpture represents an inflection of the circle of life and shows the building’s philosophy of environmental protection.
The AREA program is organized by Enterprise Asia, a nongovernmental organization that aims to create an Asia that is rich in entrepreneurship as an engine toward sustainable and progressive economic and social development.
Enterprise Asia has presented the award since 2006 to encourage enterprises to pay closer attention to social responsibility.
Awards are also given out for investment in people, health promotion, social empowerment, small and medium-sized enterprise corporate social responsibility and responsible business leadership.
Kaohsiung-based Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, an IC packaging and testing services provider, said on Friday last week that it had won the award in the social empowerment category.
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