 Building-related resource use in Chinese eastern cities – Qingdao building stock as a case studyPanyu Zhu, Olaf Mumm, Ryan Zeringue, Elisabeth Endres and Vanessa Miriam Carlow Applied Energy, 2022, vol. 313, issue C, No S0306261922001611 Abstract: With China's ongoing urbanisation, large cities in the south eastern coastal areas entered a phase of rapid development and face many challenges, such as the need for housing alongside the depletion of resources. Continuously updated energy saving standards have been improving thermal condition of building envelopes throughout the last decades. However, less is known regarding the building life-cycle recourse use and carbon emission. Existing estimation methods are difficult to be used as a tool in design practice due to their complexity. In this study, focusing on the city of Qingdao as a case study, life-cycle resource use and carbon emission were investigated on the basis of typified buildings. A matrix of building carbon intensity was established, which can be used as a benchmark in design practice. It simplifies the process of estimation especially on large scale such as neighbourhood or city, and still remain the sensibility to design changes. Keywords: Lifecycle carbon emission; Buildings related resource benchmark; Urbanisation in China; Urban density; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:appene:v:313:y:2022:i:c:s0306261922001611 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118697 Access Statistics for this article Applied Energy is currently edited by J. Yan More articles in Applied Energy from Elsevier |
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