Study on the Development Situation and Prospects for Green Construction

Abstract

This article analyzed the operation mechanism, the developments situation and the existing problems of green construction from the aspects of policies, regulations, standards codes, construction technologies and engineering practices points of views. It also revealed the effectiveness of green construction for lower resources consumption, reducing pollution and protecting environments. The author proposed that new development trend of green construction based on the background of new urbanization, and recommended progress for accelerating the development of green construction. In the architectural industry, green architecture is the exactly how the idea of sustainable development is put into practice. In fact, green construction remains a very important process for producing the green architectural products. Earlier in this century, following the reach of consensus over the concept of “Green Olympics”, the architectural industry entered the new era dominated by the concept of green construction. EVOLUTION AND MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREEN CONSTUCTION The concept of green construction in the architectural industry is developed from the idea of green architecture and green design introduced from the western developed states. However, the limits in terms of the investment and construction management system in China indeed contributed to the division of the concept of green construction into two parts, the design part and the construction part (Chen et al. 2010). Yet, architectural design and engineering construction indeed belong respectively to the design unit and construction unit, implying that no strong associations exist between these two. Thus, it is reasonable that the green design and green construction will experience different development stages. Developments and features of the green design. There are several conceptual stages for the development of the concept of green design in China’s architectural industry, which include the budding stage (from 1978 to 1992), the slowly growing