[Peakoil] PRC: Making buildings more energy-efficient

[Antony Barry]

  PRC: Making buildings more energy-efficient

Source: People's Daily

"PRC has launched ambitious plans to make its residential and office  
buildings more energy-efficient. In the first five months of the  
year, industrial standard makers announced three sets of new national  
standards: regulations on energy saving for civil buildings,  
standards for residential buildings and standards for technical  
evaluations of residential buildings.

China's efforts to improve the energy-efficiency of its buildings are  
important for itself, but it also affects the rest of the world.  
China is now the world's fourth largest economy and the second  
largest energy consumer. Over 30 percent of the world's coal, steel  
and cement is now consumed in China. On the other hand, architectural  
energy consumption is accounting for 30 percent of the country's  
total energy consumption."

Full article: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200605/24/ 
eng20060524_268302.html

phone : 02 6241 7659 | mailto:me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
mobile: 04 1242 0397 | http://tony-barry.emu.id.au