Sustainable building energy efficiency retrofit for hotel buildings using EPC mechanism in China: analytic Network Process (ANP) approach

Xu, Pengpeng; Chan, Edwin H.W.; Visscher, Henk; Zhang, Xiaoling; Wu, Zezhou

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.12.101

Cited by 84 publications

(39 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In China, plenty of energy policies have been issued to promote building energy efficiency retrofitting and green building construction in recent years [98,99]. However, even though it is of concern for the public and residents in-situ (rehabilitation), it is not always on the agenda when conducting urban renewal projects.…”

Section: Stakeholders' Expectations In Sustainable Urban Renewalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholders’ Expectations in Urban Renewal Projects in China: A Key Step towards Sustainability

et al. 2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

China's fast growth of economy and urbanization have driven large-scale urban renewal projects, thus triggering a wide spectrum of unsustainable problems. Little research has systematically explored the stakeholders' expectations in urban renewal projects in China. A deeper understanding of the divergent interests and expectations of the key stakeholder groups is an important step towards sustainable urban renewal. This paper aims to analyze the stakeholders' expectations on urban renewal projects. Eighteen factors are identified and compared among the main stakeholders: government sectors, consulting parties, the general public and affected residents in both redevelopment and rehabilitation projects, using questionnaire survey and interviews in Chongqing, China. The results reveal that there exist enormous differences of opinions and interests among stakeholders in all economic, environmental and social aspects. To achieve sustainable urban renewal in China, the governments ought to reconsider what the "public interest" stands for. In-situ residents should be understood and treated differently, based on the type of projects. An effective dialogue mechanism as well as supportive administrative and legal system should be established. Moreover, urban-renewal-related education and publicity should be a long-term strategy to change current awareness of different stakeholders, by improving their skill and willingness to participate.

show abstract

Section: Stakeholders' Expectations In Sustainable Urban Renewalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholders’ Expectations in Urban Renewal Projects in China: A Key Step towards Sustainability

et al. 2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It was found that the ranking obtained with the use of the ANP was characterized by a higher quality [30]. Xu et al used the ANP to analyze the sustainable building energy efficiency retrofit for hotel buildings [31]. The Choquet integral method is another widely used approach for measuring the dependencies between criteria.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of City Sustainability Using MCDM with Interdependent Criteria Weight

Zhang

2019

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Capital Economic Circle is an important planning project in China. Sustainability is a key factor for the long-term development of the Capital Economic Circle. In this paper, we investigated the sustainability of 13 cities in the Capital Economic Circle using three dimensions: economy, society, and environment. The induced ordered weighted averaging (IOWA) operator was used for the aggregation of criteria data. The order-inducing variable in the IOWA operator was measure by the correlation degree of a criterion and all the other criteria. Criteria with larger order-inducing values were given more weight as they provided more support for the development of other criteria. The assessment results indicate that the sustainable development of most of the cities, except for Beijing and Tianjin, is poor, with performance values below 0.5. By comparing the development using three dimensions, it was found that poor performances of economic sustainability were the main reason for this. Additionally, all of the cities showed a sound momentum of sustainable growth even though the sustainable levels of most of the cities were not high. In terms of sustainable development across the three dimensions, the cities had the highest levels of environmental sustainability. The social sustainability of the cities, except for Beijing and Tianjin, was better than their economic sustainability. However, more than half of the cities (accounting for 53.8%) showed a decline in social sustainability, especially for Zhangjiakou, which had the highest degree of decline of 4.00%. Some suggestions have been provided on the basis of the main assessment results. For example, Beijing should invest more in education as well as further easing transportation pressure. There is room for further improvement of the social and environmental sustainability of Tianjin. The other cities should focus on developing economic sustainability as well as preventing the decline of social sustainability.

show abstract

“…In China's current situation, the energy service industry is in its nascent period, the measurement and verification of energy savings are not standardized, and a lack of integrity is a very serious problem [16]. Research has also shown sustainable building energy efficiency retrofits in hotels under the EPC mechanism are largely based on trust, accurate measurement and verification, and team workers' technical skills [17]. At present, ESCos are generally small companies in China, which determines that their company strength and credibility are very common [18].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Study on Annual Energy-Saving Performance of Energy Performance Contracting in China

Ruan¹,

Gao²,

Mao³

2018

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Currently, the estimation of annual energy-saving performance of Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) projects is still at the operating level of each individual project, lacking a systematic summary. This paper studies the regression relationships of revamping cost in terms of annual energy-saving quantity and annual cost saving of EPC projects. The regression results show that there are statistically significant correlations in the above relationships in the nine subsectors investigated. These results contribute to EPC investment decisions and trust relationships between Energy Service Companies (ESCos) and energy-consuming units (ECUs). Then a multiple linear regression model of revamping cost is set up to analyze its influencing factors. The model indicates that the subsector the sample belongs to, financing, registered capital of the ESCo, and contract period have significant effects on revamping cost. Finally, advice for promoting investment in EPC projects is given.

show abstract

Sustainable building energy efficiency retrofit for hotel buildings using EPC mechanism in China: analytic Network Process (ANP) approach

Cited by 84 publications

References 11 publications

Stakeholders’ Expectations in Urban Renewal Projects in China: A Key Step towards Sustainability

Stakeholders’ Expectations in Urban Renewal Projects in China: A Key Step towards Sustainability

Assessment of City Sustainability Using MCDM with Interdependent Criteria Weight

Empirical Study on Annual Energy-Saving Performance of Energy Performance Contracting in China

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About