According to the China GreenTech Report 2013, buildings currently account for at least 33% of China's total energy consumption. Green buildings offer a solution, which can dramatically reduce the environmental impact of new and existing developments. Aggressive targets set within the 12th Five-Year Plan, and developed through more recent policies and guidelines, could encourage widespread adoption of green building practices, driving significant near-term growth.
China aims to develop 1 billion m2 of new green building floor area by 2015. This represents a fourteen-fold increase on the 69.5 million m2 in existence at the end of 2012. By 2014, all government investment in public buildings, and all affordable housing in selected cities, must meet green building standards and 30% of new buildings measured by floor area must be certified as green by 2020.
During the past six years, China has been developing and promoting its own green building rating system, based on a rising scale of one, two and three stars. There is a wide difference in standards between the three but all are considered by the government to qualify for green certification. More recently, international systems such as LEED, BREEAM and CASBEE have also been recognized and applied.
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