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Government and other public-funded buildings in the city are coming under increased scrutiny as authorities step up their efforts to reach their ambitious energy saving goals.
Under an action plan issued earlier this month, by 2010, the municipal government wants energy consumption in the country's commercial and financial hub to be down 20 percent on the 2005 level. Regular energy-use checks are now being carried out on residential and office buildings and the results are being used as part of the process to measure officials' performance. One official from the The center recently completed an audit of more than 30 municipal government buildings and is now carrying out inspections of district-level government buildings. Under the plan, some 180 billion sq m of new residential and public buildings will have to be brought in line with the energy-saving rules and a further 30 million old buildings will have to be revamped by 2010, an official with the municipal urban construction and transportation committee, said. Yang Xiong, Long Weiding, an expert on energy saving at Residential and office buildings account for 18-20 percent of the country's total energy consumption, Long said. "Although this is relatively low compared to the amount used by industry, the pace of growth is getting faster as the economy booms," he said. "There will be serious consequences if we don't pay enough attention to energy-saving practices in the construction of new buildings," he said. The central government has set a target to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20 percent between 2006 and 2010. In the first half of 2007, it was down 2.78 percent year on year. ( |
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