International Green Building Specialist Tender, Timor Leste - 39107222

Procurement Summary

Country : Timor Leste

Summary : International Green Building Specialist

Deadline : 03 Jan 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 39107222

Document Ref. No. : 62167

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
UN House, Caicoli Street (Obrigado Barracks) P.O. Box No. 008, Dili Tel: +670 331 1220, Ext 2000 or 2069 Facsimile: +670 331 3534
Timor Leste
Email :registry.tp@undp.org
URL :http://www.tl.undp.org

Tender Details

Since restoration of independence in 2002, Timor-Leste has focused its attention on addressing complex development challenges guided by its Strategic Development Plan to be upper middle-income country by 2030. Although some progress has been achieved, one of the areas that continues to be particularly challenging is sustainable environment and climate change. Climatechange is expected to have serious impact to the people in Timor-Leste, especially those living in the rural areas, due to altering weather patterns, increased temperature, heavy rainfall, sea level rise, landslides, floods, soil erosion, the frequency of extreme climate events and drought which contribute to deteriorating and damaging infrastructure, including buildings. On top of this, manmade factors such as unsustainable resource consumption, uncontrolled waste disposal pose additional risk to the environment. The situation is exacerbated due to Timor-Leste`s geographical location that makes it the 10th top countries most vulnerable to climate change. Thus, implementing green building using locally sourced materials may strengthen the resilience of the people and improve the quality of life. With this growing concern, the UNDP-supported Accelerator Lab in Timor-Leste in collaboration with partner agencies is conducting a green building design challenge by engaging with all entities including private sectors, university students and local youth to conceive a local context green building thatcan be scalable.The aim is to unlock and harness the knowledge and capacity of Timorese to create solutions utilizing locally sourced materials. They will be supported and facilitated by the Accelerator Lab equipped with innovative tools and techniques and new ways of solution implementation.The Accelerator Lab itself is established to introduce new services and approaches by sensing and exploring local current development challenges and opportunities, mapping local solutions and innovations, experimenting and tes...

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