The Comparative Research on International Low Carbon Sustainable Residential Assessment Systems
The low carbon sustainable residential evaluation system devotes to saving energy, reducing emission, and optimizing the living environment, which plays a key role in coping with global warming and the sustainable development of human. It was introduced and analyzed comprehensively the most representative international residential appraisal systems—British Code for Sustainable House, American LEED, Japanese CASBEE, Chinese Evaluation Standard for Green Building and Chinese Ecological Residential Assessment Manual from the aspects of development process, evaluation content, evaluation software, evaluation system marketization, public education and so forth. It was also analyze the advantages and limitations of those residential evaluation systems, and put forward the problems of the present Chinese low carbon sustainable residential assessment system and the measures to improve the future low carbon sustainable residential evaluation systems.