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Thursday, June 23, 2011

ScienceDirect - Renewable Energy : Urbanisation and its impact on building energy consumption and efficiency in China

ScienceDirect - Renewable Energy : Urbanisation and its impact on building energy consumption and efficiency in China: "Urbanisation and its impact on building energy consumption and efficiency in China"

The People's Republic of China and its 1.3 billion people have experienced a rapid economic growth in the past two decades. China's previous termurbanisationnext term ratio rose from around 20% in the early 1980s to 45% in 2007 [China Urban Research Committee. Green building. Beijing: Chinese Construction Industrial Publish House; 2008. ISBN 978-7-112-09925-2.]. The large volume and rapid speed of building construction rarely have been seen in global development and cause substantial pressure on resources and the environment. Government policy makers and building professionals, including architects, building engineers, project managers and property developers, should play an important role in enhancing the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the building energy efficiency process in forming the previous termsustainablenext term urban development. This paper addresses the emerging issues relating to building energy consumption and building energy efficiency due to the fast previous termurbanisationnext term development in China.

Keywords: previous termUrbanisationnext term; Building energy efficiency; previous termSustainablenext term urban development