Green Building Development in China from the Perspective of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction and the Corresponding Environmental Protection Measures

摘要

Rapid development of the traditional construction industry in China has caused increasingly prominent problems, such as environmental deterioration, resource wastage, and depletion of energy resources. To respond to the country’s policy of comprehensive energy saving and emission reduction, the construction industry must pay attention to requirements for environmental friendliness, quality, and energy conservation of buildings despite the pursuit of swift development. Industrialization of green buildings is an essential strategy to ensure energy conservation and emission reduction, and relieve environmental pollution caused by traditional construction activities. To comprehend the development status and problems in China’s construction industry, this study reviews successful experiences of developed countries in implementation of green building. Subsequently, problems of the green building industry in China and relevant causes are analysed. Finally, specific environmental protection measures are proposed. Research results demonstrate that the “green building” launched by western developed countries can achieve sound development in China. Problems with the development of China’s green building industry are mainly manifested by imbalanced regional development, few green buildings in service, poor capacity building, and insufficient green reconstruction projects. Moreover, green building is difficult to promote in China because of an imperfect legal and regulatory system, a poor market atmosphere, inadequate evaluation of the label management system, and the absence of implicit implementation techniques of a standard system. The proposed suggestions include a reasonable layout of green buildings, strengthening supervision throughout the green construction process, updating the technological standard system, and promoting the concept of green building. Research conclusions provide a theoretical basis for the construction department to understand the status of the green building sector and barriers against its development so that relevant development policies can be implemented.