TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme C: Education and Market TransformationIMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN BUILDING IN CHINAVINCENT CHENG, ISAAC TSANG, SUI-HANG YAN AND RAYMOND YAUOve Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd, HKSARABSTRACT: Green building design is becoming mainstream in China. At policy andregulatory level, China has implemented mandatory building energy standard throughoutcountry, aiming to reduce the energy use in buildings by 20% by year 2010. Recently, Chinahas also implemented voluntarily its green building standard issued by the Ministry ofConstruction, the Assessment Standard of Green building.Other than the national green building standards, many overseas green building rating schemessuch as LEED administrated by USGBC are also gaining their general popularity in China.Their applications in building projects have influenced the standard practices of buildingdesigns, making green building design becoming a leading role in the building market. Yetimplementing these schemes into the design and construction details is difficult within thecontext of China. This paper addresses the detail approaches on design strategies andconstruction site management to achieve the requirements of these schemes, focusing on thedifferences in requirements among these schemes and design approaches for achieving thelabel. This paper also discusses the potential that these schemes can help to transform thebuilding industry into a more sustainable construction.1. INTRODUCTIONDue to the rapid urbanisation in recent years, China is now one of the biggestconsumers of oil, gas and coal and the government is eager to see the country backaway from a growing dependency on imported energy [1]. Recent studies havealso shown China to be the least energy-efficient of the world's major economies,using several times as much fuel for each unit of output as the United States, Japanor European countries[2]. China is also home to several of the world's mostpolluted cities – mostly due to power plants burning vast amounts of dirty coal topower the country's rapidly growing cities.In order to change the situation, all of the efforts are being made to build a stable,economical, safe and clean energy supply system which safeguards China's energysecurity efficiently. The Central government, led by Premier Wen Jiabao and VicePremier Zeng Peiyan, has setup a team tasked with ensuring the country's energyconsumption and pollution reduction targets stated in the Chinese government's605