Events

As the METABUILD project entered the fourth and last year of operations, it is time to start collecting information on the results achieved and to quantify the project outputs and outcomes. Particularly against the reduction in resource use and waste reduction commitments made by the project to the European Union Switch Asia programme. The project management team had been planning these activities from the beginning and also developed specific tools to collect data from the participating industries to arrive at results and outputs.

On 6th February 2019 METABUILD team held a workshop “Resource Efficient Cleaner Production Financing in Bangladesh” for financial institutions of Bangladesh with the objectives to identify opportunities for new financing products, learn about existing cleaner production financing products and prototype cleaner production financing products.

The workshop was conducted by Mr. Mirko Zuerker, Senior Project Manager (Adelphi) and Mr. Amarnath Munnolimath, Project Manager (Adelphi).

In order to embed RECP in the METABUILD partnering sectors, it is necessary to train the industry owners. As indicated in the action plan, there should be RECP trainings for the industries every year of the project. The main goal of these trainings is to create awareness about resource & energy efficiency and to increase the implementations of suggested RECP measures.

On 24 July 2018, METABUILD hosted a Customer Roundtable event held on “Greening the Supply Chain” in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The event was jointly facilitated by National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC) of Sri Lanka and adelphi, Germany. The roundtable event took place at Solis Hotel, Colombo. The event was organised to bring different customer groups from construction sector. More than 80 participants (customers) from Sri Lankan metalworking and building sectors, including businessmen, associations and governmental bodies were present at the event.