Measurement of China’s Building Energy Consumption from the Perspective of a Comprehensive Modified Life Cycle Assessment Statistics Method

Qiurui Liu, Juntian Huang, Ting Ni and Lin Chen
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Qiurui Liu: School of Management, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
Juntian Huang: The Second Construction Co., Ltd., China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, Wuhan 430074, China
Ting Ni: College of Environmental & Civil Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Lin Chen: School of Management, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-19

Abstract: This paper proposes a new life cycle assessment (LCA) statistics method to calculate the energy consumption of Chinese buildings from the perspective of LCA under the sustainable supply chain system. We divide the life cycle of buildings into the materialization stage, the construction stage, and the operation stage. Based on the new LCA statistics method, we obtain the following findings. First, the growth of total building energy consumption has slowed down since 2014, and its share of the Chinese total energy consumption levels off, remaining at about 40%. In 2018, the stages of materialization, construction, and operation account for about 34.02%, 4.65%, and 61.33% in total building energy consumption, respectively. Second, the materialization and operation stages are the main sources of energy consumption in the whole supply chain. Energy consumption in the materialization stage has been declining year by year since 2014, due to the impact of energy-saving policy. Moreover, we find that energy consumption in the operation and construction stages has been increasing year by year. Finally, in the life cycle of Chinese buildings, energy consumption in the operation stage plays a dominant role. This paper puts forward some managerial suggestions to relevant departments and provides some measures to optimize energy consumption in the Chinese building industry.

Keywords: sustainability; supply chain of construction industry; building energy consumption; life cycle assessment; building embodied sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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