Workshop: Introducing Zero-carbon Construction Sites (WIZCS)

建筑工地作为工作场所，使用能源主要有两个目的。第一个是为现场办公室和其他现场小屋提供照明和/或供暖；并为办公设备、水壶、微波炉、手工具、手机等小型电器供电。二是为建筑工厂提供动力。目前建筑工地使用的能源导致大量的碳排放。在任何时候，英国都有成千上万的建筑工地，他们的能源需求是巨大的，他们产生的碳排放量也是如此。从人类活动的各个方面减少碳排放的需求是普遍接受的，建筑业需要为减少碳排放做出自己的贡献。这使得建筑工地成为减少碳排放的合法目标。《2008年气候变化法案》和欧盟的《建筑能效指令》推动了一些倡议，例如针对建筑项目运营阶段的零碳住宅倡议。然而，到目前为止，还没有针对建筑工地减少碳排放的具体努力，重点关注建筑工地使用的能源。本次研讨会基于这样的理念，即建筑项目的施工阶段在减少碳排放方面呈现出一个未开发的调查领域。研讨会的主要目的是回应这种认知上的差距，介绍零碳建筑工地（ZCS）的理念，并通过零碳建筑工地方案（ZCSS）为这一理念的传播制定议程，作为促进建筑行业碳排放减少的一种手段。该研讨会将首次将对建筑工地操作与零碳能源之间的交集感兴趣的研究人员聚集在一起。研究人员将包括建筑管理、风能和太阳能以及其他低碳或非化石燃料能源技术方面的专家。他们还将包括政策设计和制定方面的专家。研讨会将把这些研究人员聚集在一起，与建筑承包商、研究和技术组织以及政府和准自治的非政府组织进行互动，以确定实现零碳建筑工地的研究议程。与其他一天或连续几天的研讨会不同，这个独特的研讨会将以两周为间隔进行两天。讲习班日之间的间隔被纳入讲习班设计，以促进对新议程的反思和协商，以便最大限度地理解和支持主要参与者的讲习班后活动。这一点很重要，因为讲习班后的活动将是衡量讲习班成功与否的真正标准。研讨会将采用分组讨论、公开论坛、头脑风暴和提问式讨论等方式进行。之所以选择这些方法，是因为它们有可能最大限度地实现设想的影响。

Construction sites, as work places, use energy for two main purposes. The first is to provide lighting and/or heating for site offices and other site cabins; and power for office equipment, kettles, microwave ovens, hand tools, mobile telephones and other small electrical appliances. The second is to provide power for construction plant.Energy used currently on construction sites leads to substantial carbon emissions. At any one time, there are tens of thousands of construction sites in the UK and their energy demand is huge, as is the amount of carbon emissions they produce. The need to reduce carbon emissions from all aspects of human activity is universally accepted and the construction industry needs to make its contribution to reducing carbon emissions. This makes construction sites legitimate targets for efforts to reduce carbon emissions.There are initiatives driven by the Climate Change Act 2008 and European Union's Energy Performance in Buildings Directive such as the zero-carbon homes initiative that target the operation phase of construction projects. However, there is no specific effort, to date, targeted at reducing carbon emissions from construction sites that focuses on the energy used on the construction sites.This workshop is based on the idea that the construction phase of construction projects presents an unexplored area of investigation with respect to reducing carbon emissions. The workshop is primarily designed to respond to this perceived gap in the body of knowledge and introduce the idea of zero-carbon construction sites (ZCS) and plan the agenda for the diffusion of the idea, via a zero-carbon construction sites scheme (ZCSS), as a means of facilitating a step-change in reduction of carbon emissions in the construction industry.The workshop will be the first to bring together researchers interested in the intersection between construction site operations and zero-carbon energy. The researchers will include specialists in construction management, wind energy and solar energy and other low carbon or non-fossil fuel energy technologies. They will also include specialists in policy design and formulation. The workshop will bring these researchers together to interact with construction contractors and research and technology organisations as well as governmental and quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations in order to define the research agenda about achieving zero-carbon construction sites.Unlike other workshops that run for a day or on consecutive days, this unique workshop will be run over two days separated by a period of two weeks. The interval between the workshop days is included in the workshop design to promote reflection and consultation about the new agenda in order to maximise understanding and support for the post-workshop activities among the key participants. This is important because post-workshop activities will be the true measures of success of the workshop.The workshop will be run using approaches such as break-out groups, open forums, brain storming and interrogative discussion. The approaches were chosen because of the potential to maximise chances of realising the envisaged impacts.