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THE ENERGY RETROFIT OF
THE EXISTING RESIDEN-
TIAL BUILDING STOCK IN
JIANGSU PROVINCE
2018-2019 YEARBOOK Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
Xi Chen
PhD Candidate
Department of Architecture
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
The operational energy use in buildings in China represents over 1/5
of the total national energy consumption, from which urban residential
buildings takes over 23% in building sector (space heating in north
China does not included). ​It is predicted that the energy consumption
and carbon emission for housing sector will increase sharply in the
near future. As one of the biggest energy consuming country, China
has committed to established policies to promote clean and renewable
energy and energy efficiency buildings, to decrease carbon emission by
60% to 65% by 2030.
The low-energy retrofit of the existing housing stock can significantly
reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. The study focuses on
the main existing residential apartment building typologies constructed
between 1979 to 1999 in Jiangsu Province both at both building and the
stock level. Thus, this research is expected to investigate the applicability
and the potential of innovative measures, policies and approaches to
low energy retrofit for the residential building stock in Jiangsu Province
that fit different future social and climate context scenarios through
an innovative energy model that is able to perform different analysis
with particular regard to sustainability, adaptation and resilience of the
housing stock retrofit.
Research