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The White House blog of President Obama's major announcement[2] on building efficiency represents that the "Better Buildings" initiative aims to achieve a 20% improvement in commercial energy efficiency by 2020, reduce companies' and business owners' energy bills by about 40 billion dollars per year, and save energy by reforming outdated incentives and challenging the private sector to act.
Building on a theoretical efficiency-legitimacy framework, this study aims to identify and analyse the characteristics and indicators that determine the efficiency and organisational legitimacy of standards for afforestation/reforestation carbon projects.
The American plan also meets Stern's other prescriptions for an effective green stimulus - a concentration on building efficiency and renewable energy.
The United States and China are also expected to announce commitments to finalize regulations to control emissions from heavy trucks, and make new proposals to cooperate on building efficiency and appliance standards.
It is argued that the development of the weighting system brings about a new appreciation of climate influence on the built environment and its corresponding effect on building energy efficiency measurement.
Therefore, evaluation on building energy efficiency and human thermal comfort is extremely necessary.
However, skyscraper development, as well as all other new construction and gradually the older building stock, has to comply with current strict regulations on building energy efficiency.
Focusing on building energy efficiency, this article has reviewed 96 papers and suggests engagement of an Integrated Knowledge-based BusingnD Management System using nD BIM applications (BIM-IKBMS) during the post-construction building lifecycle to advance the successful implementation of sustainable building performances.
In Japan, a new assessment system called CASBEE-HI (Comprehensive Assessment System for Building Environmental Efficiency on Heat Island Relaxation) has been developed for evaluation of the effects of various building design-related measures for heat island reduction.
