Green
Buildings in China
The Zhongshan Neighbourhood-Pingdu Road Project
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Introduction
The International Centre for Sustainable Cities, in partnership with Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Ltd., Ramsay Worden Architects, Habitat Design + Consulting Ltd. and and Archemy Consulting Ltd, has been working on several interconnected green building projects in the Chinese province of Shandong for the last five years. ICSC and Commonwealth led a consortium that prepared and innovative feasibility study and rehabilitation plan for the historic Zhongshan Road Neighbourhood in Qingdao. Work was supported by CIDA-INC and done in 2001-02. The City of Qingdao then entered into an agreement with the Canadian consortium to undertake an energy efficiency and heritage conservation pilot project which has been supported through Canada's Technology Early Action Measures (TEAM) Program. The pilot involved an energy efficient design for the rehabilitation and renovation of an historic courtyard building in the Zhongshan Road neighbourhood. The architectural design work was done by Ramsay Worden Architects, with Commonwealth providing the heritage expertise and Habitat and Archemy providing the energy efficiency and green building expertise.
A second pilot was undertaken at the Shandong Institute for Architecture and Engineering (SDAI) in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. It involves the design and construction of a wing of a student dormitory at the Institute's new campus. The dormitory will serve as a living model of energy efficiency in building design incorporating such features as higher insulation levels, air tightness, passive and active solar space heating, solar shading devices, wind and solar driven natural cooling, demand control ventilation and water conservation. It will allow direct comparisons with the standard design of dormitories common to universities in China.
A third component of the project was the development of training materials and provision of a series of seminars on green building technologies. These have been presented to many senior personnel connect to the building industry in Shandong Province
The fourth project activity involved training building professionals in the use of EE4 energy simulation software, completed in February 2004.
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