With so much of China’s energy waste coming from its buildings (up to 70%), building, operating, and maintaining efficient buildings will need to become a greater focus within China’s overall sustainability strategy.
It is a topic that Edward Ziegler has studied and written some excellent articles on, and it is a the focus of a 518,000 grant from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Based in richmond Washington, this agency is an arm off the US Department of Energy and will work with 2 cities to train construction company employees and inspectors (an often overlooked area in need of more investment) as part of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
Like other programs that are being piloted in the area of eco-building/ cities, the core issue will be creating a platform that can be scaled out across China. IT was a question of the Dongtan development (prior to its shutdown), and it will continue to be a critical question for planners as an unprecidented amount of building takes place across China.
By 2015, the World Bank estimates, half the world’s building construction will be in China. Over the next 20 years, China will build 430 billion square feet of floor space, or the equivalent of 20,000 to 50,000 new skyscrapers, the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of New York-based McKinsey & Co., a global management consulting firm
Really? Dongtan is shut down? What a pity. Please point me to more details. Thanks.
Comment by Buster — December 12, 2008 @ 2:28 am