What leads to low-carbon buildings? A China study

Shi, Qian; Yu, Tao; Zuo, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.05.037

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“…Through governmental economic incentives, young consumers can be awarded additional economic benefits to offset the high price premium of GH, thereby substantially motivating them to purchase GH. Echoing similar findings from [66,67], an increasing demand can be stimulated by economic benefits. Thus, to attain the ambitious targets of promoting GH on a significant scale, government should formulate different portfolios of economic incentives in guiding the consumers to purchase GH.…”

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Investigating Young Consumers’ Purchasing Intention of Green Housing in China

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The issues of energy crisis, environmental degradation, and climate change present a severe challenge to the sustainable development in China. The development of green building (GB) is considered one of the most popular strategies toward a sustainable construction industry. Apart from advanced green technologies, consumers' purchasing intention toward green housing (GH) plays a crucial role in the large-scale promotion of GB. However, which determinants significantly affect consumers' purchasing intention remain unclear, especially for the young generation in developing countries. This study attempts to investigate young consumers' purchasing intention of GH in China. On the basis of extended theory of planned behavior (TPB), seven constructs are identified, and nine hypotheses are proposed. A total of 241 responses were collected from the questionnaire survey, and structural equation modeling was employed to test the proposed hypotheses. Governmental incentives are affirmed to be the most important determinant, followed by consumers' attitude toward behavior and subjective norm. Perceived behavioral control is an insignificant determinant for young consumers to purchase GH. In addition, subjective knowledge has an indirect effect through attitude toward behavior. Environmental concern also confirms an indirect effect through attitude toward behavior and subjective norm toward purchasing intention, respectively. Thus, the government is implied to play a crucial role in GH promotion at this stage.

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“…The result implies that the respondents have low level of awareness on the fact that excessive usage of air conditioners will lead to high energy consumption which in turn contributes to the increase in the amount of carbon emission into the atmosphere. Reluctance in using low carbon dioxide materials and the lack of environmental awareness hinder the carbon dioxide labelling of materials and consequently the development of lowcarbon buildings [8]. Therefore, it is not surprising when Kim et al [14] stated that much effort has been paid to the management of CO 2 emission by many nations to cope with climate change because CO 2 emission has been regarded as a main cause of global environment disasters that occurred in recent years.…”

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“…The study focused on low carbon technology assessment and planning for building sector in Chongming, Shanghai. Shi et al [8] combined Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM) and Matrice d'Impacts croises-multipication appliqué a classment (MICMAC) approach to investigate the causal relationships among the varying factors relevant to low carbon buildings. The outcome of the study is a comprehensive visualized tool that can optimize construction of low carbon buildings.…”

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“…It was also revealed from the study that critical success factors for the development of low carbon buildings must be highly interactive. Priority of low carbon buildings' evaluation should be focused on such factors as international cooperation, macro-level management, the development of low-carbon theories and technologies due to their strong driving power to low carbon buildings [8]. Based on the literature findings, it can be summarized that there remains a research gap in the performance of the clean strategies and establishment of a systematic assessment method for office buildings in different countries with different climate exposures.…”

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Effectiveness of Green Strategies to Reduce Carbon Emission in the Putrajaya Campus Buildings of Universiti Tenaga Nasional

Ba-Batin¹,

Haider²,

Wong

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IJET

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Low Carbon Buildings are regarded as structures with low carbon emission in the construction sector. They are environment-friendly in a sense that they contribute to the reduction in carbon emission through optimization of their energy consumption and passive cooling system. This study concentrated on green strategies that can reduce carbon emission of Putrajaya Campus buildings of Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). Survey method in the form of questionnaire was applied to gather sufficient data for the research work. The survey work was performed on UNITEN building occupiers with diverse background inclusive of students, academic and non-academic staffs. The primary result implies that the methods of insulating the wall and utilization of energy saving air conditioners are most effective at reducing carbon emission of the buildings. It was also found that there is a low correlation with R-square value of 0.017 between the awareness on the impact of carbon emission from the air conditioning buildings and the awareness on climate change issue. This implies that there is a need for active measures to be taken to educate the respondents on the importance to reduce carbon emission of buildings in order to slow down climate change.

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“…The building industry, which is a large-scale energy consumer accounting for more than 30% of all CO 2 emissions, poses a major obstacle in CO 2 reductions for all countries [3][4][5][6][7]. Accordingly, a realistic policy to reduce CO 2 emissions in this industry is required [8][9][10].…”

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Building Simplified Life Cycle CO2 Emissions Assessment Tool (B‐SCAT) to Support Low‐Carbon Building Design in South Korea

Roh

Tae

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Various tools that assess life cycle CO 2 (LCCO 2 ) emissions are currently being developed throughout the international community. However, most building LCCO 2 emissions assessment tools use a bill of quantities (BOQ), which is calculated after starting a building's construction. Thus, it is difficult to assess building LCCO 2 emissions during the early design phase, even though this capability would be highly effective in reducing LCCO 2 emissions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop a Building Simplified LCCO 2 emissions Assessment Tool (B-SCAT) for application in the early design phase of low-carbon buildings in South Korea, in order to facilitate efficient decision-making. To that end, in the construction stage, the BOQ and building drawings were analyzed, and a database of quantities and equations describing the finished area were conducted for each building element. In the operation stage, the "Korea Energy Census Report" and the "Korea Building Energy Efficiency Rating Certification System" were analyzed, and three kinds of models to evaluate CO 2 emissions were proposed. These analyses enabled the development of the B-SCAT. A case study compared the assessment results performed using the B-SCAT against a conventional assessment model based on the actual BOQ of the evaluated building. These values closely approximated the conventional assessment results with error rates of less than 3%.

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What leads to low-carbon buildings? A China study

Cited by 50 publications

References 74 publications

Investigating Young Consumers’ Purchasing Intention of Green Housing in China

Investigating Young Consumers’ Purchasing Intention of Green Housing in China

Effectiveness of Green Strategies to Reduce Carbon Emission in the Putrajaya Campus Buildings of Universiti Tenaga Nasional

Building Simplified Life Cycle CO2 Emissions Assessment Tool (B‐SCAT) to Support Low‐Carbon Building Design in South Korea

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