Study on the Development Situation and Prospects for Green Construction

This article analyzed the operation mechanism, the developments situation and the existing problems of green construction from the aspects of policies, regulations, standards codes, construction technologies and engineering practices points of views. It also revealed the effectiveness of green construction for lower resources consumption, reducing pollution and protecting environments. The author proposed that new development trend of green construction based on the background of new urbanization, and recommended progress for accelerating the development of green construction. In the architectural industry, green architecture is the exactly how the idea of sustainable development is put into practice. In fact, green construction remains a very important process for producing the green architectural products. Earlier in this century, following the reach of consensus over the concept of “Green Olympics”, the architectural industry entered the new era dominated by the concept of green construction.