In 2001, the Department put forward a Green Contractor Award Scheme which aimed at encouraging our contractors to pay more attention to the environmental aspects so as to achieve higher standards and continual improvement in their environmental performance on construction sites. It was the ninth year in 2009 that the Scheme had been carried out and all ArchSD projects under construction in this year including maintenance projects with contract sums over $21 millions participated in the competition. Only those contractors whose contracts had attained the highest scores in environmental performance were selected for the Award.