An Analysis On The Application Of Energy-saving Criteria For Green Building

Under the background of global warming and normalized energy crisis, the energy issue has become a crucial element of national strategy security for each single country across the globe. China, a developing country with a large population and relative shortage of resources, must take the path of energy saving to ensure national energy security and accomplish economic and social sustainable development. Among the four major energy consumers as industry, transportation, construction and living, the energy consumption of construction accounts for30%of the total. In view of the great responsibility and potential of construction in energy saving, government and society have made great efforts to vigorously promote energy-saving building and put forward general goals and strategies for green building on the basis of learning from western developed countries, but the overall effect is not so significant. The reasons can be explored in such aspects as lagging of energy-saving criteria and insufficient emphasis on effects. Hence, through combing domestic and foreign energy-saving theories and standards for the construction and design of legal system and combining a wide range of newly-developed evaluation criteria for green building, the paper applies and analyzes the energy-saving criteria for green building to illustrate the pros and cons and prospects of the standards in the hopes of making a beneficial attempt on the application of the criteria.