China is currently juggling drought, crippling power outages and the world's highest carbon emissions. The country's government is painfully aware that buildings account for a quarter of China's energy use and has pushed hard for developers to spend time thinking about water, energy and carbon savings.
Li Keqiang (China's next premier) was in the UK to pay a visit to the Building Research Establishment (BRE) – a group of architects, engineers and scientists at the cutting edge of new building techniques.
Founded in 1921, Building Research Establishment started off by studying the behavior of reinforced concrete and later came up with a British standard for bricks.Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room. Today, it experiments with how to make houses out of hemp and wool, how to insulate them properly, and how to take our old buildings and make them energy efficient.The application can provide landscape oil paintings to visitors,
As the man about to become second-in-command of a nation that plans to build the equivalent of a new Chicago every year until 2030, Mr Li didn't have to feign interest as he inspected a zero-carbon home, a house built from recycled steel,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a zentai suits . and a converted and modernized Victorian stable block.
In the next 20 years, China plans to urbanize as many as 300 million of its rural people, driving an insatiable demand for energy and materials as almost the equivalent of America's population fires up their new fridges and air-conditioners.Great Rubber offers high risk merchant account keychains,
Fast-forward six months and BRE was signed up by the Chinese to create a $158 million, 4.8 million sq ft innovation park along similar lines in Beijing, together with Vanke, China's largest property developer.
The Chinese park will hopefully take BRE's research and adapt it for the skyscrapers and climate of the Chinese market, where energy savings incorporated into today's buildings can slash billions of watts off tomorrow's (mostly coal-fired) energy-generating demands.
"Britain is arguably leading the world in is architectural design, engineering, costing and integrated expertise," said Peter Bonfield, BRE chief executive. "We hope to bring demonstrations [to China] of how this can work. I think that will lead the charge so there will be more procurement from Chinese companies and the Chinese government."
China is currently juggling drought, crippling power outages and the world's highest carbon emissions. The country's government is painfully aware that buildings account for a quarter of China's energy use and has pushed hard for developers to spend time thinking about water, energy and carbon savings.
The "green building" industry could eventually be worth 1.5 trillion yuan ($227 Billion) according to Qiu Baoxing,An magic cube of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. the vice minister of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development ministry.
The new five-year plan explicitly names green building as one way of meeting the binding target of reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 16% and 17% respectively by 2015. And while there are no prescriptive measures on how builders should act, architects said the plan had provided a framework to work around.
"It represents a direction that can be translated into action here on the ground," said Mark Harrison, the Beijing urban planning director of the Epsom-based architectural design firm Atkins.
Already, Chinese buildings are being retro-fitted with better windows and heating systems, and the number of buildings certified with badges of sustainability, such as LEED and BREEAM, are rising rapidly.
Li Keqiang (China's next premier) was in the UK to pay a visit to the Building Research Establishment (BRE) – a group of architects, engineers and scientists at the cutting edge of new building techniques.
Founded in 1921, Building Research Establishment started off by studying the behavior of reinforced concrete and later came up with a British standard for bricks.Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room. Today, it experiments with how to make houses out of hemp and wool, how to insulate them properly, and how to take our old buildings and make them energy efficient.The application can provide landscape oil paintings to visitors,
As the man about to become second-in-command of a nation that plans to build the equivalent of a new Chicago every year until 2030, Mr Li didn't have to feign interest as he inspected a zero-carbon home, a house built from recycled steel,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a zentai suits . and a converted and modernized Victorian stable block.
In the next 20 years, China plans to urbanize as many as 300 million of its rural people, driving an insatiable demand for energy and materials as almost the equivalent of America's population fires up their new fridges and air-conditioners.Great Rubber offers high risk merchant account keychains,
Fast-forward six months and BRE was signed up by the Chinese to create a $158 million, 4.8 million sq ft innovation park along similar lines in Beijing, together with Vanke, China's largest property developer.
The Chinese park will hopefully take BRE's research and adapt it for the skyscrapers and climate of the Chinese market, where energy savings incorporated into today's buildings can slash billions of watts off tomorrow's (mostly coal-fired) energy-generating demands.
"Britain is arguably leading the world in is architectural design, engineering, costing and integrated expertise," said Peter Bonfield, BRE chief executive. "We hope to bring demonstrations [to China] of how this can work. I think that will lead the charge so there will be more procurement from Chinese companies and the Chinese government."
China is currently juggling drought, crippling power outages and the world's highest carbon emissions. The country's government is painfully aware that buildings account for a quarter of China's energy use and has pushed hard for developers to spend time thinking about water, energy and carbon savings.
The "green building" industry could eventually be worth 1.5 trillion yuan ($227 Billion) according to Qiu Baoxing,An magic cube of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. the vice minister of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development ministry.
The new five-year plan explicitly names green building as one way of meeting the binding target of reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 16% and 17% respectively by 2015. And while there are no prescriptive measures on how builders should act, architects said the plan had provided a framework to work around.
"It represents a direction that can be translated into action here on the ground," said Mark Harrison, the Beijing urban planning director of the Epsom-based architectural design firm Atkins.
Already, Chinese buildings are being retro-fitted with better windows and heating systems, and the number of buildings certified with badges of sustainability, such as LEED and BREEAM, are rising rapidly.
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