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Busan Completes Green Remodeling Pilot Project at Four Aging Senior Facilities, Taking Another Step Toward Carbon Neutrality

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that, through the “Green Remodeling Pilot Project for Aging Facilities for Seniors and Children” promoted this year, it has installed five heat recovery ventilation systems at four aging senior centers across the city.

Facilities for seniors and children refer to facilities that provide various welfare services needed by older adults and young children, including senior centers, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, kindergartens, and daycare centers.

This project was carried out as a public-private partnership between the city and the Busan Chapter of the Korea Association of Mechanical Construction Contractors (hereinafter referred to as “the Association”) to reduce energy consumption in aging buildings. The city selected the project sites, while the Association provided talent donations by installing, free of charge, heat recovery ventilation systems, which are a representative piece of green remodeling equipment, at the selected facilities.

A heat recovery ventilation system discharges polluted indoor air to the outside while transferring the heat from the exhausted air to the incoming fresh air, thereby recovering energy. This system minimizes energy loss in buildings while improving indoor air quality.

The senior centers where the project has been completed are: ▲Geumgok 3-danji Senior Center (Buk-gu, two units installed) ▲Hangwol Grandmother Senior Center (Gangseo-gu) ▲Veterans Apartment Senior Center (Haeundae-gu) ▲Banyeo-dong Giro Senior Center (Haeundae-gu). The city first received recommendations for candidate sites from district and county offices and then selected the final sites through on-site inspections.

Busan Metropolitan City promoted this project to raise public awareness of green remodeling for aging buildings and to encourage voluntary participation, thereby accelerating efforts to realize “Busan, a leading carbon-neutral city.”

Green remodeling refers to environmentally friendly renovation that improves aging buildings in need of enhanced energy performance, increasing energy efficiency and creating a more comfortable living environment.

Next year, the city plans to expand the range of eligible facilities beyond senior centers to include daycare centers and kindergartens, thereby increasing the number of green buildings.

Bae Seong-taek, Director General of the Housing & Architecture Bureau, said, “Through this pilot project, we have achieved two goals at once: improving energy efficiency in aging buildings and enhancing indoor air quality,” adding, “We will continue to expand interest in green remodeling of buildings, activate the creation of green buildings, and move forward as a city that leads the way in carbon neutrality.”