Decarbonize Public and Commercial Buildings
China Building Energy and Emission Yearbook 2022
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If the heat of road surface can be stored in summer, the road surface temperature will be decreased to prevent permanent deformation of pavement. Besides, if the heat stored is released, it can supply heat for...
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Founded in 2005, the Building Energy Research Center of Tsinghua University (BERC), has worked continuously on China’s buildings sector, to comprehensively analyses the current status, unique features and key ...
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China’s central government has announced the mid- and long-term climate targets of carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Low-carbon development is not only the task for the energy sector but also...
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At the beginning of this chapter, we will explain the basic situation of urban areas, urban residential buildings and their energy consumption. Urban area consists of city areas and county.
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In recent years, urbanization has grown rapidly in China. In 2019, 848 million people lived in urban areas, while 654 million people lived in rural areas.
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In this report, China’s building energy and emission status and trend were discussed and updated. In 2022, the topic of the report was public and commercial buildings and it includes three parts. Chapter 2 upd...
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Chapter 2 updated China’s building energy use and emissions during construction phase and operation phase in 2020. Detailed data on China’s building sector including population, building stock, total amount an...
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The energy structure reform is a fundamental link that must be implemented to achieve the carbon neutrality goal. One of the main tasks of implementing the carbon neutrality strategy is to transform a carbon-b...
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The past two decades witnessed the rapid growth of public building stock in China from about 3.8 billion m2 in 2001 to about 14 billion m2 in 2020 (Fig. 3.1). In 2020, office and shop** mall, as main types ...