International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2016
Evaluation of Building Energy Service Industry Systems Evolution in China Based on the Synergetic Theory
Publication: ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
ABSTRACT
With the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, the world is facing a serious challenge of climate change, energy shortage, and environmental issues. The booming economy has propelled the country, China, to the largest energy consumer and greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter in the world, building field consuming almost 1/3. With the effort of Chinese government and the society, large number of building ESCOs (energy service companies) spring up. However, there are still problems hampering the implementation of energy service for building, leaving huge potential for improving. This paper focuses on the building energy service industry and aims to interpret the industry system to verify whether the industry is developing on path of which it supposes to be based on the synergy theory. First of all, this paper makes an analysis on the building energy service industry and divides subsystems based on synergetic. Then, by literature review, a set of influencing factors can be recognized, leading to the establishment of an evaluation index system. With the utilization of AHP (analytic hierarchy process) method, weight of each indicator is calculated and the main indicator is found. Finally, several suggestions are proposed to promote the development of building energy service industry.
Get full access to this chapter
View all available purchase options and get full access to this chapter.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The work described in the current paper was supported by a grant entitled “Study on Synergetic Mechanism and Evolutionary Model of Building Energy Service Industry Development” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71403033). The authors would like to thank anonymous reviewers.
REFERENCE
Akman, U., Okay, E. and Okay, N. (2013). “Current snapshot of the Turkish ESCO market.” Energy Policy, 60(5), 106–115.
Bertoldi, P., Berrutto, V., Renzio M.D., Adnot, J. and Vine, A. (2003). “How are EU ESCOs behaving and how to create a real ESCO market?” Proceedings of the 2003 ECEEE summer study, European Council for an energy-efficient economy, Paris, France, 909–916.
Cai, W.G., Wu, Y., Zhong, Y. and Ren, H. (2009). “China building energy consumption: Situation, challenges and corresponding measures.” Energy Policy, 37(6), 2054–2059.
Cao, M.D. and Ma, H.C. (2011). “Analysis of law and policy of EPC In China.” Journal of East China University of Politic Science and Law, (6), 63–79. (in Chinese).
Chan, E.H.W., Qian, Q.K. and Lam, P.T.I. (2009). “The market for green building in developed Asian cities: the perspectives of building designers.” Energy Policy, 37(8), 3061–3070.
Haken, H. (2004). Synergetics: introduction and advanced topics, Springer, Berlin.
Huang, B., Mauerhofer, V. and Geng, Y. (2016). “Analysis of existing building energy saving policies in Japan and China.” Journal of Cleaner Production, 112(2016), 1510–1518.
Kostka, G. and Shin, K. (2013). “Energy conservation through energy service companies: empirical analysis from China.” Energy Policy, 52(1), 748–759.
Labanca, N., Suerkemper, F., Bertoldi, P., Irrek, W. and Duplessis, B. (2015). “Energy efficiency services for residential buildings: market situation and existing potentials in the European Union.” Journal of Cleaner Production, 109(2015), 284–295.
Li, Y. (2012). “AHP-Fuzzy evaluation on financing bottleneck in energy performance contracting in China.” Energy Procedia, 18(14), 121–126.
Mathew, P.A., Dunn, L.N., Sohn, M.D., Mercado, A. and Custudio, C. (2015). “Big-data for building energy performance: lessons from assembling a very large national database of building energy use.” Applied Energy, 140(2015), 85–93.
Pätäri, S. and Sinkkonen, K. (2014). “Energy service companies and energy performance contracting: is there a need to renew the business model? Insights from a Delphi study.” Journal of Cleaner Production, 66(3), 264–271.
Saaty, T.L. (1990). “How to make a decision: the analytic hierarchy process.” European Journal of Operational Research, 48(1), 9–26.
Shang, T.C. and Zhang, L.R. (2008). “Energy performance contracting project evaluation and BS model.” International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking & Mobile Computing, Dalian, China, 1–4.
Stuart, E., Larsen, P.H., Goldman, C.A. and Gilligan, D. (2014). “A method to estimate the size and remaining market potential of the US ESCO (energy service company) industry.” Energy, 77(2014), 362–371.
Taylor, R.P. (2009). “Achieving sustainability in world bank energy efficiency projects: lessons learned developing ESCOs in China.” Strategic Planning For Energy & The Environment, 29(1), 32–41.
Tummala, V.M.R., Chiu, S. and Chin, K. (1999). “An evaluation of success factors using the AHP to implement ISO 14001-based EMS.” International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 16(4), 341–362.
Wang, J. and Chen, X. (2008). “Estimation of the risks of energy performance contract projects based on the unascertained measure model.” IEEE International Conference on Automation & Logistics, Qingdao, China, 1043–1047.
Wang, J. and Sun, Y. (2012). “The intuitionistic fuzzy sets on evaluation of risks in projects of energy management contract.” Systems Engineering Procedia, 3(2012), 30–35.
Wang, X.B. and Yan, G.L. (2012). “Relationships between stability, brittle and entropy of monetary policy transmission system based on theory of empirical analysis of dissipative structure and mutation.” Systems Engineering, 30(4), 10–17.
Wen, Y. and Zhang, Y.F. (2010). “Effective solution to the financing problems of energy management contract.” Economic Herald, (11), 12–13. (in Chinese).
Xu, P., Chan, H.W. and Qian, Q.K. (2011). “Success factors of energy performance contracting (EPC) for sustainable building energy efficiency retrofit (BEER) of hotel buildings in China.” Energy Policy, 39(11), 7389–7398.
Xu, P.P., Chan, E.H.W., Visscher, H.J., Zhang, X.L. and Wu, Z.Z. (2015). “Sustainable building energy efficiency retrofit for hotel buildings using EPC mechanism in China: Analytic Network Process (ANP) approach.” Journal of Cleaner Production, 107(2015), 378–388.
Zhang, Y., Han, Q.M., Liu, C.B. and Sun, J.Y. (2008). “Analysis for critical success factors of energy performance contracting (EPC) projects in China.” IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management. Beijing, China, 675–679.
Zhang, Y.R. and Wang, Y.F. (2013). “Barriers’ and policies’ analysis of China’s building energy efficiency.” Energy Policy, 62(2013), 768–773.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
Pages: 600 - 609
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Mohamed Al-Hussein, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta, Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Ph.D., Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Yimin Zhu, Ph.D., Professor, Louisiana State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8027-4
Copyright
© 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Published online: Aug 14, 2017
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.