Incentive initiatives on energy-efficient renovation of existing buildings towards carbon-neutral blueprints in China: Advancements, challenges and perspectives

Z Liu, C Yu, QK Qian, R Huang, K You, H Visscher… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Under China's national strategy of carbon neutrality by 2060, it is urgently necessary and
challenging for the governments to proactively explore policy tools to facilitate energy …

A systematic overview of prefabricated construction policies in China

T Luo, X Xue, Y Wang, W Xue, Y Tan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The construction industry faces the challenges of balancing environmental concerns with the
construction of new buildings. Although the government has identified the promotion of …

Potential to decarbonize the commercial building operation of the top two emitters by 2060

S Zhang, M Ma, X **ang, W Cai, W Feng… - Resources, Conservation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Building operations are the last steps to achieve global carbon neutrality, especially
commercial building operations with high emission abatement potential. Taking China and …

Historical carbon abatement in the commercial building operation: China versus the US

S Zhang, M Ma, K Li, Z Ma, W Feng, W Cai - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Building is the “last mile” sector in carbon neutrality transition, and commercial buildings
have the largest decarbonization potential using current strategies and technologies. This …

Carbon-dioxide mitigation in the residential building sector: a household scale-based assessment

M Ma, X Ma, W Cai, W Cai - Energy Conversion and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbon-dioxide mitigation in residential building sector (CMRBS) has become critical for
China in achieving its emission mitigation goal in the “Post Paris” period with the growing …

Critical success factors (CSFs) for sustainable affordable housing

MA Adabre, APC Chan - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Interventions for sustainability attainment in affordable housing have received increasing
attention from policy makers globally. However, policy-makers' interventions for sustainable …

Effectiveness of passive design strategies in responding to future climate change for residential buildings in hot and humid Hong Kong

S Liu, YT Kwok, KKL Lau, W Ouyang, E Ng - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
The application of passive design strategies is crucial at the early architectural design stage
for building energy use minimization. However, the time-varying effectiveness of passive …

Building green retrofit in China: Policies, barriers and recommendations

G Liu, X Li, Y Tan, G Zhang - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Green retrofit is an effective way of improving the performance of existing buildings to
achieve low energy consumption and low carbon emission. To realize a successful building …

Critical barriers to sustainability attainment in affordable housing: International construction professionals' perspective

MA Adabre, APC Chan, A Darko, R Osei-Kyei… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
For a significant thrive towards sustainable development globally, sustainability attainment
in affordable housing for low-income earners is fundamental. Identifying obstacles to …

Strategic approaches towards achieving sustainable and effective building maintenance practices in maintenance-managed buildings: A combination of expert …

A Hauashdh, J Jailani, IA Rahman - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Buildings have been consistently identified as the sector with the greatest potential to reduce
both energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions through more sustainable …