Hebei's building energy efficiency leads the country

    According to relevant officials from the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, our province's building energy efficiency is at the forefront of the country. This is mainly reflected in the fact that energy-saving buildings account for more than 40% of the total existing buildings, and the completion of heat metering and energy-saving renovation of existing residential buildings reached 13.7559 million square meters; the newly added application area of renewable energy in buildings is 15 million square meters, with an application rate of over 40%. According to statistics, from 2010 to now, the province has obtained 83 green building evaluation labels, with a building area of 10.2816 million square meters. Among them, 6 are affordable housing projects, with a building area of 2.2682 million square meters.

    The "In the Water" project in Qinhuangdao has become China's first truly passive low-energy building, and the main structure of the Sino-German Passive Low-Energy Office Building of the Provincial Building Science and Technology R&D Center has been completed. In 2013, new green buildings accounted for more than 15% of the total urban buildings. Our province's building energy efficiency work has been praised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development many times.

    Establish a closed green supervision system

    In 2014, our province proposed that the proportion of green buildings in new buildings should reach 20%. To achieve this goal, our province proposes to establish a closed green supervision system, strengthen the management of the entire process of planning, design, construction, and acceptance, implement a strict supervision and accountability system, ensure that no new non-energy-saving buildings appear, ensure the energy-saving renovation and effects of existing buildings, ensure the widespread promotion of renewable energy application technologies, and ensure the effective control of energy consumption in public buildings.
  Each city should build at least one green building community of more than 200,000 square meters

    According to the unified deployment of the province, this year, all government-invested buildings, large public buildings with a single building area exceeding 20,000 square meters, and provincial capital affordable housing will fully implement green building standards, and other cities with districts and counties directly under the province must have at least 40% of affordable housing implement green building standards.

    The main content of implementing the "100 Green Building Projects" includes that each city with districts and counties directly under the province must plan to build 1 to 3 green building communities of more than 200,000 square meters, 1 to 3 passive low-energy building demonstration projects, and the "4+1" ecological demonstration cities must build a number of green building projects.

    It is reported that our province clearly proposes to make passive low-energy building demonstrations, integration of building energy efficiency and structure, and large-scale green building communities into national highlights.

    Promote a batch of green and energy-saving products for construction engineering materials and equipment

    Speaking of green energy-saving technologies, a relevant official from the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development gave the reporter an example: for instance, promoting elevator power feedback devices, which convert the excess DC power generated during heavy-load downward, light-load upward, and leveling braking processes of elevators into usable AC power, saving energy while avoiding the thermal effect of resistors on the elevator machine room, with particularly obvious energy-saving effects.

    To achieve the goal of "Building Energy-Saving Province", in 2014 our province will increase the promotion of new technologies and products. The 67 products recently promoted include construction steel, concrete materials and products, wall materials, building insulation materials, decoration materials, building doors and windows and accessories, etc., totaling 16 categories. These materials are safe and durable, energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and convenient for construction, which will further improve the application level of green energy-saving building materials and equipment in our province and ensure the quality of construction projects. At the same time, our province will also eliminate a batch of outdated building material products.

    It is introduced that this year, both the provincial and municipal levels will organize special inspections on building energy efficiency and seriously deal with违规 projects and违规 behaviors.