12. Rosana Wong, executive director of ">Yau Lee Holdings Limited, Hong Kong, a vertically integrated manufacturing, design, construct, manage company, presented its vision of the future in the context of a 36 story hotel recently designed and built in Hong Kong. 

Yau Lee Holdings' core processes are targeted at maximizing energy efficiency and producing a zero carbon foot print.  In the single-minded pursuit of these objectives, Yau Lee Holdings will invent products and processes as required to attain their goals. 

Huge savings were realized in at all levels of the triple platinum hotel project in Hong Kong. The company's take-away: “The future, is what we imagine and what (sic) we make out of it.” 

13. Lest anyone mistake what is coming, cheap labor does not provide immunity from change.  Huang Qiang, of the ">China Academy of Building Research, presented the development of the China BIM standards.  The implication is clear:  The U.S. can lead the world into the future, or it can follow, but the world will change.