Bruce Cheng (second from the left, Delta founder and Chairperson of the Delta Foundation), Yeh Tien-Chiang (first from the left, CWB Director-General), Yang Chin-Fu (first from the right, Chairperson of the Taiwan Architecture and Building Center), and Tai-Jen George Chen 
(second from the right, Tenured Distinguished Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, NTU) attended the press conference together

Thus the Foundation partnered with Central Weather Bureau (CWB) of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Taiwan Architecture and Building Center, and commissioned Professor Tai-Jen George Chen's team from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at National Taiwan University (NTU) to develop the "Green BIM" database available for download by architects on its dedicated website. The first stage of the database has converted the historical climate data for highly populated areas in Taiwan for the past 20 years (1998 - 2016) into BIM climate parameters to help architects design better energy-conserving buildings. On the 7th, Bruce Cheng (Delta founder and Chairperson of the Delta Foundation), Yeh Tien-Chiang (CWB Director-General), Yang Chin-Fu (Chairperson of the Taiwan Architecture and Building Center), and Tai-Jen George Chen (Tenured Distinguished Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, NTU), and experts in the fields of architecture and weather attended the press conference for database launch to present the 
features and the future vision of the project.

Bruce Cheng, Delta founder and Chairperson of the Delta Electronics Foundation, indicated on the press conference, "Delta has built 26 green buildings around the world, and has been continuously participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conferences to follow up on the global trend in green buildings. We are pleased to be a part of this industry-academia partnership and draw from both climate and architecture fields to create our own local Green BIM. This database will help architects design energy-conserving buildings, and, hopefully, be applied to energy creation and infrastructures such as smart grids in the future."

The next stage for "Green BIM" is to create an online information platform with higher resolution that takes local microclimate effects into consideration. This will provide microclimate information of higher accuracy to architects for designing energy-conserving buildings. In the future, hopefully, it will also become a basis for 
decisions of building management staffs in managing central air conditioning and light systems, and serve as supplementary information for energy creation businesses such as solar and wind power businesses and for power distribution over smart grids.

For for details, please refer to the Green BIM website (Chinese):http://www.weatherservice.org.tw