Ecological Design

Government Gets Out the Wrong Ideas About Green Building

By Himfr Paul

Energy, water and materials, and land-based green building, is only in recent years a new concept, the promotion process, and some green building name only, and some simply "pseudo-green building", some even confusing and difficult to promote.

On April 1 just-concluded Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Energy Conservation Conference, experts and scholars gathered for the green building name, the hope that the green building out of the three major errors.

Green does not mean high prices and high cost.

In the event of bombing and the concept of sales to advertising hype popular, "green building" has become a real estate business, without exception, their catchy new phrases are, so give the impression that green building is high-grade construction. How the cost of green building, will become a factor in raising prices, housing and the vice minister made reply:

Green building is a broad concept, the green does not mean high prices and high cost. For example Yan'an cave Dongnuanxialiang, transforming it into a Chinese-style green building, cost is not high; Xinjiang, there is a building with local characteristics, and its walls by a local straw plaster and a combination of good ventilation, insulation is high, coupled with a very localized roof, is a typical village green building, its cost only 800 yuan / square meter, can be described as cheap.

Chinese people are not too high in the case of income, housing prices and housing costs we are very sensitive. Qiu said, we have introduced green building standards and technologies, to give full consideration to these issues require the use of green building technologies, products and facilities, costs are lower, should not affect the price of real estate. It is worth mentioning is that once the application of these technologies and equipment, the investment return rate is very high, because households can minimize electricity, water and other energy expenditure, generally 5 to 8 year period , you can come back to cost.

For example, a German company, a building energy-saving assistance to the project, the Government gave out 3,000 yuan per household, households own a 2,000 yuan, 2,000 yuan of foreign aid, a total of an investment in 7000 dollars, were from the outside of the building insulation to heating, intelligent, glass, doors, ceilings and water circulation system overhaul.

After transformation, the decrease in household spending one year reached more than 3,000 yuan, many people have asked around the use of these technologies. Qiu said, is not modern, high technology is green, to break this misunderstanding. Building energy efficiency to green building and development of road located in the high-end, aristocratic, will not be successful; proven road to development identified as Chinese-style, ordinary people type, applicable technology type, to the healthy development of green building.

Previous intelligence on the detour, and many intelligent building, remain in the security, sound control, the lines were very complex, very high cost, even the high power consumption, this is not the proper path of development of intelligent building. Information age should be more intelligent use of information, use less energy. Now some places, smart switches, mobile phones can control home energy switching, winter walking, put heating switch off, half an hour before work, one by phone, you can switch the heating start, so back to the house, the house has been warm in.