Green building in China: Needs great promotion

Li, Yanan; Yang, Li; He, Bao‐Jie; Zhao, Doudou

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“…Nowadays it has been widely recognized that humanity is facing various grand challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation [1][2][3][4]. Unfortunately, the building and construction industry is responsible for the rise of these challenges to a large extent, particularly because of its numerous consumption of energy, water, and raw materials [5][6][7][8].…”

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A Global Review of Sustainable Construction Project Financing: Policies, Practices, and Research Efforts

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Despite the increasing investment in sustainable development over the past decade, a systematic review of sustainable construction project financing is lacking. The objectives of this paper are to conduct a systematic review to examine the policies, practices, and research efforts in the area of sustainable construction project financing, and to explore the potential opportunities for the future research. To achieve these goals, this paper first reviewed the sustainable construction project financing practices implemented by four representative developed economies including the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore, and Australia. Then, this paper reviewed the efforts and initiatives launched by three international organizations including the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and International Finance Corporation. After that, this paper reviewed the research efforts of sustainable construction project financing published in peer-review journals and books. This paper identified four major research themes within this area, which are the review of financial stakeholders and market of sustainable construction, benefits and barriers to sustainable construction project financing, financial vehicles for sustainable construction projects, innovative models and mechanisms for sustainable construction project financing. Additionally, this paper revealed five directions for the future research of sustainable construction project financing, which are the identification of financial issues in sustainable construction projects, the investigation of financial vehicles for sustainable construction projects in terms of their strengths, limitations, and performances, the examination of critical drivers for implementing sustainable construction project financing, the development of a knowledge-based decision support system for implementing sustainable construction financing, and the development of best practices for implementing sustainable construction project financing. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge by reviewing existing policies, practices, and research efforts in the area of sustainable construction project financing. Meanwhile, the findings from this paper benefit the industry as well, because they are able to provide the practitioners with a holistic view of sustainable construction project financing, thereby enhancing their knowledge and skills in this regard.

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“…In response to the world's energy conservation and environmental protection work, the Chinese government has actively participated in taking practical action to promote the development of green building [2]. The concept of GB in China is derived from "Energy-Saving and Land-Saving Residential Building" launched by the central government in 2004.…”

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“…Li, et al [2] showed the number of GB development from 2008 to 2012, and did a contrast analysis between national projects and local projects. However, great changes have occurred in the green building in the last four years.…”

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The Relationship Between Green Building and Regional Economy: A Case Study in Guangdong, China

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Developing Green Building (GB) is one of the most effective measures to save energy and reduce carbon emissions in the world. To promote the development of green building, it is necessary to analyze driving factors and contribution through the analysis for relationship between regional economy and green building. Therefore, based on the system dynamic(SD) theory, this paper constructs the structure model of the stock flow diagram, including the regional economic subsystem, social subsystem, government support subsystem and green building subsystem. Among the model, Guangdong province, as the most prosperous province of economic development with the largest numbers of certified green buildings in China, has been chosen to show the influence level of their relationship. Through simulation, results can be easily shown that development of GB can make contributions to the field of local economy, however, also be limited by the regional condition, including policy incentive, regional economic, technological, etc. We can also find that direct contribution to the GDP the Green Building made can reach about 2.47 ‰, and 9.23 ‰ indirectly. If the current level of regional production is stable, it can be found that each additional 10,000 square meters of green area building may produce about ¥018.2 million for economy. On the contrary, that the regional economy investment in fixed assets increased by ¥1 million can stimulate 0.001648 million square meter demand of GB. Additionally, employment opportunities directly or indirectly have also been considered.

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“…Mostly, these studies are reliant on quantitative and qualitative data to derive their findings (Feige, Wallbaum, & Krank, 2011;Li, Yang, He, & Zhao, 2014). Others studies are lacking in empirical support.…”

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“…Global resources are being used up at an alarming rate through Man's over exploitation (Hirokawa, 2009;Li, Yang, et al, 2014;Okwoli & Ude;, and the result is not just increasing greenhouse gas emission, which is altering the global climate for worse, but also collapsing fisheries, diminishing forest cover and depleting fresh water systems and natural resources (Okwoli & Ude). To a large extent, the construction industry has been responsible for this environmental degradation (Dahiru, Abdulazeez, & Abubakar, 2012;Dobson, et al, 2013;Hirokawa, 2009;Hussin, et al, 2013;Shi, 2010), especially given its high rate of energy consumption (Adegbile, 2012;Aminu, Kandar, & Ossen, 2010;Okwoli & Ude).…”

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Motivating Project Owners to Increase Their Commitment towards Improving the Delivery Performance of Green Building Projects

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Green building in China: Needs great promotion

Cited by 180 publications

References 11 publications

A Global Review of Sustainable Construction Project Financing: Policies, Practices, and Research Efforts

A Global Review of Sustainable Construction Project Financing: Policies, Practices, and Research Efforts

The Relationship Between Green Building and Regional Economy: A Case Study in Guangdong, China

Motivating Project Owners to Increase Their Commitment towards Improving the Delivery Performance of Green Building Projects

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