“Turning green into gold”: a framework for energy performance contracting (EPC) in China's real estate industry
“Turning green into gold”: a framework for energy performance contracting (EPC) in China's real estate industry
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.09.037
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发表时间：
2015-12
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Xiaoling Zhang;Zezhou Wu;Yong Feng;P. Xu
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作者：
Xiaoling Zhang;Zezhou Wu;Yong Feng;P. Xu
人们对可持续建筑环境的兴趣日益浓厚，绿色技术正在引起全世界的关注。然而，实施绿色技术通常比使用传统技术需要更多的投资，而且投资回收期往往很长。在中国，大多数开发商出售房产，随后将所有权转让给客户。因此，推动绿色建筑的一个关键问题是，开发商无法从实施“绿色”技术中获得经济利润（“黄金”）。与此同时，其他利益相关者，如物业管理公司，也对采用绿色技术犹豫不决，因为涉及的投资很大，而且他们缺乏经验。为了解决这一问题，提出了一个基于能源绩效合同（EPC）的框架，通过谨慎地分担存在的风险，将“绿色”投资转化为“黄金”收益。该框架是通过与分别来自发展商、物业管理公司和能源服务公司的三名经验丰富的代表进行焦点小组会议而制定的。一个真实的案例研究，其中包括节能系统改造和新建筑，用于估计所涉及的成本和效益，以演示和验证概念框架。结果表明，所提出的框架可以支持绿色技术在两类项目中的应用。为项目利益相关者和全社会带来经济效益和环境效益。
There is a growing interest in a sustainable built environment and green technologies are gaining worldwide attention. However, implementing green technologies usually requires more investment than using traditional technologies and the payback period tends to be very long. In China, most developers sell their properties and subsequently transfer the ownership to customers. Hence, a crucial problem for promoting green construction is that developers cannot obtain economic profits (“gold”) from implementing “green” technologies. Meanwhile, other stakeholders, such as property management companies, are also hesitant to adopt green technologies because of the large investment involved and their lack of experience. To tackle this problem, an energy performance contracting (EPC) based framework is proposed, to turn “green” investment into “gold” benefit by careful sharing of the risks existed. The framework was developed by conducting a focus group meeting with three experienced representatives from developer, property management company and energy service company respectively. A real-life case study, which includes both energy efficient system retrofit and new construction, is used to estimate the costs and benefits involved to demonstrate and verify the conceptual framework. The results show that the proposed framework can support the application of green technologies in both types of projects. Economic benefits as well as environmental benefits can be gained for the project stakeholders and the whole society.