Research On The Planning And Design Policy Of Low Carbon Settlements And Subcommission Of International Experience

The total and per capita resources of China are grossly inadequate, while the energy demands of China grow at an average annual rate of 5%, which is much higher than the world average of 2%. Nowdays, in the process of our settlements constuction, it accounts for 20% of total energy consumption in the city,32% of urban water,30% of urban land, 20% of steel and 17.6% of cemen. The energy consumption in the existing settlements is 2-3times more than the developed contries.According the data of resources, over 50% of the land, minerals, timber resources are being used in construction,45% of the energy is used in construction of heating, lighting and ventilation and 40% of the water is used for building maintenance. Ecological building will bring human economic and ecological benefits and ecological house becomes the new darling of architects. Therefore, building low-carbon housing will become the resedential theme of the world in the 21st century, and also be a long-term goal in.the development of China's housing industry However; we need to study the low-carbon settlements because it has just started in China.The paper can be divided into three parts:The first part is pre-Theory. It deals with the background, significance and research status, which includes domestic and residential construction research.of low-carbon settlements. It also describes the basic theory of planning and design of low-carbon settlements, which provides a theoretical basis.for the research of this paperThe second part is the status of this paper.It describes the status of settlements planning and design and summarizes the characteristics and problems of Chinese settlements in respective of the overall design of settlements, settlements, buildings and local traffic. The third part is the core of this paper. It sums up the low-carbon settlements planning model of China and points out the diffrence of low-carbon settlements and traditional settlements. Meanwhile, it aslo disscusses the current issues in the residential planning and design of low-carbon, and puts up several practical recommendations in order to make the development of low-carbon settlements faster and better.