TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme C: Education and Market TransformationFigure 2: Sustainable building designsThe advance in the green building technology is particularly prominent in thedesign of the public buildings, which are predominately non-residential includingoffices, hotel and institutional buildings etc. The effectiveness on energy saving ismore observable due to their higher Energy Use Intensity EUI. For example, theEUI of a typical Grade-A office building in Shanghai is about 120 to 150kWh/year [1]. The major energy consumption is coming from the HVAC systems,which is designed to provide high quality of thermal comfort environment asshown in Fig 3. This is followed by the lighting systems. In north parts of China,another significant portion of energy consumption of building, however, is for theprovision of heating in winter time. For a big country like China, variations inclimatic conditions are significant, which demands a holistic consideration for anyeffective strategy for green development. In particular, integrated designs are610