The "Shanghai City Green Building Regulations" have been passed, and indoor air quality needs to be tested for the renovation of public buildings

Green buildings are one of the important ways to achieve the "double carbon" goal and an important starting point for promoting the formation of green and low-carbon production methods and lifestyles. As of now, the city's total green building area has reached 404 million square meters, and a total of 1231 projects have received green building star logos.

How to make more breathing green buildings stand? On September 27, the 16th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People's Congress voted to adopt the "Shanghai City Green Building Regulations," which will come into effect on January 1, 2025.

"Traditional building energy conservation has been difficult to adapt to the new goals and requirements of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field. It is necessary to take the development of green buildings as the guide and integrate green development concepts into the full-life management of buildings." Yan Rui, director of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, said that it is necessary to pass local legislation to further clarify the relevant main responsibilities of the city's green building development work and improve incentive and guarantee measures to improve the city's green building development level and promote urban and rural construction Green development provides solid and powerful legal guarantees.

Implement full-process management of green building construction

Green buildings are high-quality buildings that maximize the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. They can effectively save resources, protect the environment, reduce pollution, and provide people with healthy, applicable and efficient use space.

In order to implement green building requirements in all aspects of construction and operation management, the "Regulations" further consolidate the relevant main responsibilities: clarify the overall requirements for green building construction, and the construction unit should perform the main responsibilities and implement the full-process management of green building construction, design, construction, Supervision and other units should perform corresponding responsibilities;

In the construction project approval process, construction units are required to clarify green building requirements in project approval documents, construction project contracts, and bidding documents. Green building requirements should be clarified in this city's land paid use contracts or construction project planning land opinions;

In the design process, it is clear that the design unit should prepare a special chapter for green buildings when preparing design documents, and the construction drawing design document review agency will review the contents of the special chapter for green buildings;

In the construction process, it is clear that the construction unit should prepare a green construction plan and be responsible for its implementation, and the supervision unit supervises the construction unit's implementation of the green construction plan;

In the operation management process, it is clear that the owners and user rights holders of green public buildings should establish an operation management system and strengthen operation and maintenance.

In addition, the "Regulations" also clarify the engineering inspection, completion acceptance of green buildings, and the inclusion of green building related content in relevant sales documents, forming a closed management loop.

Indoor air quality testing fails and cannot be put into use

In the decoration of offices, restaurants, gyms, etc., what everyone is most afraid of is the problem of excessive formaldehyde.

"It is urgent to solve the problem of indoor air pollution in my country." Some representatives pointed out that the current indoor ambient air quality standards are chaotic, neglecting the management of indoor air quality in decorated commercial houses, office buildings, etc., and strengthening testing is needed.

The reporter noted that this legislation has improved the renovation measures of existing public buildings and indoor air pollutant testing.

The "Regulations" stipulate that when renovating, expanding, decorating and renovating existing public buildings and comprehensively renovating residential communities, technical measures for green renovation should be adopted according to local conditions. At the same time, it is clarified that "if existing public buildings are renovated, expanded, or decorated, the building owner or user rights holder shall test indoor air pollutants in accordance with relevant national regulations before putting them into use; if the test fails, they shall not be put into use."

This legislation also clearly establishes an energy efficiency monitoring and hierarchical management system for office buildings of state agencies and large public buildings. If the annual energy consumption exceeds the limit and requires green renovation, the relevant building owner should formulate a green renovation plan and implement it, and encourage existing industrial buildings to implement green renovation in accordance with green building standards.

When purchasing green buildings, the proportion of provident fund loans can increase

The construction sector is a major energy consumer and carbon dioxide emitter. According to calculations, nearly 40% of the country's existing buildings are still non-energy-saving buildings. Among existing public buildings, buildings with a service life of more than 20 years account for more than 30%. A large number of old residential buildings have poor envelope structures and old equipment and low efficiency., lack of operation and maintenance management, resulting in a high proportion of domestic building energy consumption throughout the life cycle in the country's total energy consumption.

How to make more people willing to build and buy green buildings?

In order to further promote the high-quality development of green buildings and related industries, the "Regulations" improve relevant incentive and guarantee measures: clarify the comprehensive use of planning, land, finance, price and other policies to increase support for green buildings; provide incentives for construction, renovation, purchase, and operation of green buildings in terms of floor area ratios, housing provident fund loans, etc. in accordance with regulations. "If individuals use housing provident fund loans to purchase green-building housing above two-star, the provident fund loan amount can be increased within the specified proportion range."

In addition, promote the coordinated development of green building intelligent construction and building industrialization to form a green building industry system covering the entire industry chain; explore the establishment of a construction sector to participate in the city's carbon emissions trading mechanism.

The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Housing and Construction Commission stated that in accordance with the requirements of the "Regulations", various supporting measures such as green building requirements, public building energy efficiency grading system, and green building support policies will be further improved, and the existing management system will be "checked and filled in" and optimized. Improve, refine the granularity of policies, and ensure that the "Regulations" are operable and implementable.