Critical factors of low-carbon building development in China's urban area

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• 作者：Lianying Zhang ; ^{zhanglianying@tju.edu.cn} ; Qing Li ^{qinger0606@126.com} ; Jinli Zhou ^{zhoujinli9@126.com}
• 关键词：Low-carbon building ; China's urban area ; Critical factor ; Structural equation modeling
• 刊名：Journal of Cleaner Production
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：20 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：142
• 期：part_P4
• 页码：3075-3082
• 全文大小：364 K
• 卷排序：142

文摘

The energy consumption and carbon emissions of the urban building sector have been growing so rapidly in recent decades that developing low-carbon buildings has become a common trend in the world. However, the current developing situation of low-carbon buildings in China's urban area is still dissatisfactory though some measures have been taken. Thus, it is valuable to explore the critical factors responsible for the imperfect low-carbon development. Based on the extant researches, this paper firstly concluded 18 possible factors affecting the development of low-carbon buildings in China's urban area Then, with the data collected from a questionnaire survey, 6 critical factors are identified through factor analysis. The research also employed structural equation modeling to further indicate the influence priorities of the 6 critical factors over corporate low-carbon willingness. The results show that all of these critical factors have significant impacts on low-carbon constructionand return on investment has the first priority over low-carbon willingness. Correspondingly, six proposals are proposed at the end of the paper with the aim to provide a reference for the effective development of urban low-carbon buildings. It is worthy to mention that the results are also valuable for the construction of resource saving and environmental-friendly society in China.