The construction industry is recognised to pose serious environmental threats due to its anthropogenic activities.To confront this challenge,green building has been famed as an auspicious strategy to alleviate energy-...The construction industry is recognised to pose serious environmental threats due to its anthropogenic activities.To confront this challenge,green building has been famed as an auspicious strategy to alleviate energy-related carbon emissions alongside climate change mitigation.Consequently,it has birthed diverse empirical studies and holistic reviews by the research community.However,these previous studies have been carried out from a global and continental viewpoint regardless of the green building development specifically in emerging economies.This present study seeks to fill the sparse research upshots on the synthesis of green building research at the country level with core focus on South Africa.In this light,the current study provides a scoping overview of the intellectual exploration on green building research in the South African context.The study’s findings highlight the varying growth regarding the subject matter,the drivers,drawbacks,and socio-economic issues confronting in developing green building projects in the country.To optimize the advancement of green building in the region,this study recommends the implementation of financing schemes,utilization of advanced digital technologies,and promotion of green and sustainable building curricula across the institutions as well as post-occupancy-related studies within the green building spectrum towards a safe and salutogenic built-environment in the country.展开更多
Carbon neutrality is an ambitious goal that has been promulgated to be achieved on or before 2060.However,most of the current energy policies focus more on carbon emission reduction,efficiency and high penetration of ...Carbon neutrality is an ambitious goal that has been promulgated to be achieved on or before 2060.However,most of the current energy policies focus more on carbon emission reduction,efficiency and high penetration of renewable energy.Thus,this paper presented a review strategy towards carbon neutrality by presenting the concept of a multi-energy system(MES)in terms of its technologies,configuration,modelling and feasibility as zero-emission equipment.The paper addressed some prominent challenges associated with zero-carbon multi-energy systems(ZCMES).Various proven solutions in the extant studies that have been affirmed to alleviate some of these challenges were presented.In the end,we identified and summarised the current research gaps,and the future directions to ensure the feasibility of ZCMES as a primary strategy towards the actualization of carbon neutrality.Hence,this review work serves as a reference for revising the current energy policies to incorporate a carbon neutrality framework.展开更多
文摘The construction industry is recognised to pose serious environmental threats due to its anthropogenic activities.To confront this challenge,green building has been famed as an auspicious strategy to alleviate energy-related carbon emissions alongside climate change mitigation.Consequently,it has birthed diverse empirical studies and holistic reviews by the research community.However,these previous studies have been carried out from a global and continental viewpoint regardless of the green building development specifically in emerging economies.This present study seeks to fill the sparse research upshots on the synthesis of green building research at the country level with core focus on South Africa.In this light,the current study provides a scoping overview of the intellectual exploration on green building research in the South African context.The study’s findings highlight the varying growth regarding the subject matter,the drivers,drawbacks,and socio-economic issues confronting in developing green building projects in the country.To optimize the advancement of green building in the region,this study recommends the implementation of financing schemes,utilization of advanced digital technologies,and promotion of green and sustainable building curricula across the institutions as well as post-occupancy-related studies within the green building spectrum towards a safe and salutogenic built-environment in the country.
基金This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61873118in part by the Shenzhen Committee on Science and Innovations under Grant GJHZ20180411143603361in part by the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province under Grant 2018A050506003.
文摘Carbon neutrality is an ambitious goal that has been promulgated to be achieved on or before 2060.However,most of the current energy policies focus more on carbon emission reduction,efficiency and high penetration of renewable energy.Thus,this paper presented a review strategy towards carbon neutrality by presenting the concept of a multi-energy system(MES)in terms of its technologies,configuration,modelling and feasibility as zero-emission equipment.The paper addressed some prominent challenges associated with zero-carbon multi-energy systems(ZCMES).Various proven solutions in the extant studies that have been affirmed to alleviate some of these challenges were presented.In the end,we identified and summarised the current research gaps,and the future directions to ensure the feasibility of ZCMES as a primary strategy towards the actualization of carbon neutrality.Hence,this review work serves as a reference for revising the current energy policies to incorporate a carbon neutrality framework.
