Effect of Green Construction on a Building’s Carbon Emission and Its Price at Materialization

Shuangxi Zhou, Zhenzhen Guo, Yang Ding, Jingliang Dong, Jianming Le and Jie Fu
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Shuangxi Zhou: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
Zhenzhen Guo: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
Yang Ding: Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Jingliang Dong: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
Jianming Le: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
Jie Fu: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Buildings consume many resources and generate greenhouse gases during construction. One of the main sources of greenhouse gases is carbon emission associated with buildings. This research is based on the computing rule of carbon emission at the materialization stage. By taking the features of green construction into consideration, quantitative analysis on construction carbon emission was undertaken via Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Making use of Vensim (a system dynamics software package), we analyzed the amount of carbon emission at the materialization stage and determined the major subsystems affecting the carbon emission, then took into comprehensive consideration the differences of each subsystem’s carbon emission under different construction technologies. Under the mechanism of carbon trade at the materialization stage, the total price of carbon trades remains unchanged, while the trading price of each subsystem is adjusted. Under these conditions, a coefficient for step-wise increases in carbon price was proposed. By establishing such a system of gradient prices, construction companies are encouraged to adopt high-efficiency emission reduction technologies. Meanwhile, the system also provides a reference for the formulation of price-based policies about buildings’ carbon trading, and accelerates the process of energy conservation and emission reduction in China and the world at large.

Keywords: green construction; life cycle assessment (LCA); system dynamics; carbon trading prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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