Abstract
Developing Green Building (GB) is one of the most effective measures to save energy and reduce carbon emissions in the world. To promote the development of green building, it is necessary to analyze driving factors and contribution through the analysis for relationship between regional economy and green building. Therefore, based on the system dynamic(SD) theory, this paper constructs the structure model of the stock flow diagram, including the regional economic subsystem, social subsystem, government support subsystem and green building subsystem. Among the model, Guangdong province, as the most prosperous province of economic development with the largest numbers of certified green buildings in China, has been chosen to show the influence level of their relationship. Through simulation, results can be easily shown that development of GB can make contributions to the field of local economy, however, also be limited by the regional condition, including policy incentive, regional economic, technological, etc. We can also find that direct contribution to the GDP the Green Building made can reach about 2.47 ‰, and 9.23 ‰ indirectly. If the current level of regional production is stable, it can be found that each additional 10,000 square meters of green area building may produce about ¥018.2 million for economy. On the contrary, that the regional economy investment in fixed assets increased by ¥1 million can stimulate 0.001648 million square meter demand of GB. Additionally, employment opportunities directly or indirectly have also been considered.
Highlights
As an important implementation of the sustainable development of the construction industry [1], Green building (GB) has increasingly aroused people’s attention
This research aims at introducing GB situation in China objectively in a bid to strain the main points to penetrate into analyzing economic and social benefits quantitatively related to GB from unbalanced development, such as providing regional employment opportunities directly or indirectly and contributing toward the national economy [9]
Through contrast between the space distribution to GB development and regional economy of various provinces, we can be sure that there has certain internal relation between the regional economic and the green building development scale
Summary
As an important implementation of the sustainable development of the construction industry [1], Green building (GB) has increasingly aroused people’s attention. The concept of GB in China is derived from “Energy-Saving and Land-Saving Residential Building” launched by the central government in 2004 It is defined in Chinese as national evaluation standard for GB, including energy-saving, land-saving, water-saving and material-saving, environment-benign and pollution-reducing, summarized as “Four-saving and One-benign” [3]. Both ‘Several Opinions on further strengthening the urban planning and construction management’, issued on February 21, 2016 by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and the NPC & CPPCC (National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) of the government work report on March 5, 2016, for example, are given high priority on GB development. Through the convening of these important meetings and related policies issued, GB in China has been given an important place in the process of construction industry
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