The economic impacts of carbon emission trading scheme on building retrofits: A case study with U.S. medium office buildings

Lou, Yingli; Yang, Yizhi; Ye, Yunyang; He, Chuan

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109311

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“…Carbon trading, as one of the most efficient market mechanisms, has been widely implemented to encourage carbon reduction in many countries 46 . Studies on the behavioral strategies of players in the carbon trading market have focused more on the emission reduction effects and strategic choices of enterprises 47 and manufacturers 48 at the production side, retailers 49 at the sales side, and households 50 at the consumption side under the changes of carbon emission-related indicators such as emission allowances, carbon prices, and the government's regulatory costs 51 .…”

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“…Existing scholars have studied the mechanism design 57 , allowance scheme design 58 and baseline design 59 of carbon trading for public buildings 60 , residential buildings 61 and green buildings 62 . For example, Lou et al found that by including the US construction industry in carbon trading, owners could obtain economic benefits to reduce carbon emissions 46 . Song et al found that penalties, subsidies and public supervision under regulation policy of carbon trading are more conducive to emission reduction by building owners than the traditional means of administrative intervention by the government 55 .…”

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Evolutionary analysis of resident groups’ intention to participate in green retrofit PPP projects of traditional apartment complexes

Yang

Sun

Wang

et al. 2023

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Green retrofit PPP projects of traditional apartment complexes play an important role in promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of the construction industry and achieving China's "double carbon" goals. The integrated retrofit of apartment complexes presupposes that the resident groups agree to the retrofit. Therefore, it is necessary to study the evolutionary mechanism of residents' intention to green retrofit and the transformation process of their behavior, and to explore how to enhance residents' intention to participate. First, the dissemination model of residents' intention to green retrofit is constructed. Then, the strategic interaction among government, social capitals and residents under the PPP model is introduced into the dissemination model to define the state transformation probability of resident groups. Finally, the evolution laws of residents' intention to green retrofit are analyzed. The results show that: (1) the behavior of government regulation and social capitals' effort to retrofit can motivate the number of the resident agreeing to green retrofit to meet the proportional limit, (2) the faster the government chooses the strategy of regulation and the social capitals choose the strategy of effort to retrofit, the faster the number of residents agreeing to green retrofit reaches a steady state, (3) when the level of government publicity and education is too low, the cost of government regulation or the subsidy given to residents is too high, the green retrofit of traditional apartment complexes cannot be achieved. The research conclusions can provide a reference for the government to formulate green retrofit policies.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Evolutionary analysis of resident groups’ intention to participate in green retrofit PPP projects of traditional apartment complexes

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Wang

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“…The cost consideration of the carbon emissions of building insulation can be determined by carbon trading price [18], carbon tax price [35], and the other potential economic quantitative determination methods. The relationship between carbon emissions and economic performance of roof insulation can be established using the carbon trading scheme and carbon tax.…”

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Low-Carbon Optimization Design for Low-Temperature Granary Roof Insulation in Different Ecological Grain Storage Zones in China

Li,

Huang,

Guo

et al. 2023

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The optimization design of buildings is very important to the energy consumption, carbon emissions, and sustainable development of buildings. The low-temperature granary has a low grain storage temperature and high energy consumption indexes. The design scheme of the roof insulation for a low-temperature granary should be determined in actual building design processes by considering the costs, carbon emissions, and outdoor climate, comprehensively. In this paper, a new low-carbon optimization design method is proposed for the roof insulation in the low-temperature granary. The low-carbon optimization design method can respond to the cost issue, emission reduction issue, and outdoor climate issue, simultaneously. Moreover, the low-temperature granary roof insulation of different ecological grain storage zones in China is optimized in terms of carbon reduction by using the proposed low-carbon optimization design method. The application results of the optimization design method in different ecological grain storage zones in China indicate that the outdoor climate has significant impacts on the economic performance and carbon reduction effect of roof insulation. The cost considerations related to carbon emissions can apparently increase the economic efficiency of roof insulation. The optimal economic thicknesses of expanded polystyrene (EPS) in the cities of Urumqi, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Guiyang, and Haikou are 0.025 m, 0.037 m, 0.085 m, 0.097 m, 0.072 m, and 0.148 m, respectively. The different outdoor climates of the seven ecological grain storage areas in China have important influences on the comprehensive economic performances of low-temperature granary roof insulation. The design of the low-temperature granary roof insulation in Haikou city has the best economic performance among the seven ecological grain storage zones in China.

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“…The management of carbon emissions in supply chains has also become a research hotspot to ensure the normal operation of building systems [26]. The integration of low-carbon-design concepts into the renewal design of old buildings is advocated as one of the industry's approaches [27]. The low-carbon effects of green space design through the coupling of building and landscape systems have also received attention from multiple scholars [28].…”

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A Study on Ecological Emergy and Carbon-Emissions-Coupling Sustainability of Building Systems

Wang,

Yan,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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In the face of the increasingly deteriorating global environment, the sustainability of building systems has become a major research topic. This paper presents sustainability research on large-scale building cases from the perspectives of ecological emergy value and carbon emissions. Specifically, by calculating the emergy value and carbon emissions throughout the entire life cycle of the building system, a quantitative analysis of sustainability based on the LCA–emergy–carbon-emissions framework is completed. The results indicate that from the perspectives of both emergy value (over 80%) and carbon emissions (over 90%), the operational stage and the building-material-production stage are the controlling factors. Retrofit design strategies help enhance the sustainability performance of the building system, but different types of design strategies have different effects. The landscape-transformation-design strategy (strategy A) significantly improves the ecological sustainability of the building system, the equipment-improvement strategy (strategy B) helps reduce the carbon emissions of the building system, while the infrastructure-renewal strategy not only has a weaker impact on sustainability improvement but also generates the highest carbon emissions. Additionally, with the aim of controlling carbon emissions, the integration of solar clean energy sources contributes to the overall sustainability of the building system, providing references for architects and building managers.

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The economic impacts of carbon emission trading scheme on building retrofits: A case study with U.S. medium office buildings

Cited by 27 publications

References 23 publications

Evolutionary analysis of resident groups’ intention to participate in green retrofit PPP projects of traditional apartment complexes

Evolutionary analysis of resident groups’ intention to participate in green retrofit PPP projects of traditional apartment complexes

Low-Carbon Optimization Design for Low-Temperature Granary Roof Insulation in Different Ecological Grain Storage Zones in China

A Study on Ecological Emergy and Carbon-Emissions-Coupling Sustainability of Building Systems

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