Chinese Zero Emission Buildings with Swiss Know-How: Impact Study (ZEB_China)
Description
Reducing the operational energy used to heat and cool buildings in China is key to mitigating climate change, as the building sector is a major emitter of CO2 emissions. Estimating the impact of introducing building retrofit and changes in energy standards for China is challenging due to the size and heterogeneity of the Chinese building stock as well as the lack of data availability. This project will develop a bottom-up building simulation framework with the goal of assessing the impact of the newly introduced zero emission building standard (ZEB) on the urban residential Chinese building stock. A methodological approach will be developed and tested for 4 different case study settings of 1 km2 using an archetypical approach to represent buildings and districts (i.e. superblocks).
Key data
Projectlead
Project team
Project partners
Intep Integrale Planung GmbH; Skat Consulting AG
Project status
completed, 08/2023 - 01/2025
Institute/Centre
Institute for Building Technology and Process (IBP)
Funding partner
Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit DEZA
School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering
Tössfeldstrasse 11
8400 Winterthur