Best Policy Practices

Best Policy Practices
Technical Sustainability Standards for Housing and Public Buildings
China
A design for the Beijing Olympics, and a
housing project will implement new technical
standards for housing and public buildings
Tsinghua University’s super-low-energy building, which is located
on the University’s grounds, was built in 2006 under
the Beijing Green Olympic Games pilot program demonstrating
sustainable buildings and construction (SBC) principles in
public buildings.
Additionally, Dalian Dayou Yiyuan, which is located in
Liaoning Province, was built in 2005 as a MOF pilot program
demonstrating SBC principles in housing.
A technical standards system and a technical standards
framework consisting of national standards and local standards
are key to promoting SBC in China. China has other pilot
programs run by local governments demonstrating SBC in
housing and public buildings: in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and
Chongqing.
China has established the primary level of a design
standard system of 50% or 65% energy savings, and has
confirmed the technical standard system and established the
technical standard framework consisting of national standards
and local standards.
• Energy-saving Design Standard for Housing in
Hot-summer and Cold-winter Areas
• Energy-saving Design Standard for Housing in
Hot-summer and Warm-winter Areas
• Energy-saving Design Standard for Public Buildings
Sustainable buildings and construction (SBC) principles are
the main focus of the national energy strategy of China, and
have been included in long-term and mid-term development
planning. China will confirm the defined goal of SBC in the
eleventh planning period by promoting the primary level of the
design standard system of 50% or 65% energy savings in pilot
programs run by local governments.
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