Construction of building energy conservation incentive policies under government regulation: Based on the subjects' behavior analysis

Building energy efficiency is a long-term strategy to achieve sustainable development, but the inconsistencies of main interests during the implementation lead to the need for government regulation in building energy conservation. Implementation of building energy efficiency of government regulation covers three aspects of construction and involves relevant participators, so the paper analyzes interests and roles of the related subjects in building energy saving, explore the motivations and its conversion mechanism of each player, and dissect the game relationship of associated earnings of developers' and consumers' behaviors selection under government control. Finally, the paper proposes basic requirements of building incentive policies for related subjects under government control to regulate the main behaviors of subjects in building energy efficient buildings and achieve energy efficiency goals and balance of all parties' benefits.

Editorial: Special subject on the mechanical behavior of thermal protection materials and structures

The thermal protection materials and structures are widely used in hypersonic vehicles for the purpose of thermal insulation, and their mechanical behavior is one of the key issues in design and manufacture of hypersonic vehicles. It is our great pleasure to present the seven papers in this special subject of Theoretical ＆ Applied Mechanics Letters （TAML） and introduce the recent progresses on the mechanical behavior of thermal protection materials and structures by the authors.

Editorial: Special subject on the mechanical behavior of fire dynamics in high-rise buildings

With rapid economic and social development in China, high-rise buildings have continuously sprung up since 2006. However, several big fire accidents in high-rise buildings such as the Beijing Television Cultural Center fire in 2009 and the Shanghai Jing＇an District fire in 2010 etc. have claimed people＇s lives and caused huge amounts of economic and property losses,

Supply and demand subject behavior of building energy efficiency in market fostering

Consumers and developers are the market transaction subjects which drive the development of building energy efficiency market. High energy prices, unreasonable heating system, information asymmetry of building energy suppress demand of energy efficiency construction; high technical risk and construction cost, nonstandard market restrict the supply of energy efficiency construction. To promote the development of building energy efficiency, we must set up effective incentive policies for both sides of the market transaction, improve the supervisory system, promote the technological progress, build the information sharing platform, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating and improving the building energy efficiency market system, regulating the behavior of supply and demand subject, building the mutually beneficial and cooperative partnership, and realizing the balance of interests.

Behavior characteristics and market operation problems of existing building energy-saving renovation market

The long-term and effective implementation of the existing building energy efficiency renovation depends on the development of the existing building energy efficiency renovation market.The key to the development of the existing building energy efficiency renovation market is the joint role of the market players.Starting with the analysis of the externalities and information asymmetry of the existing building energy efficiency renovation market,this paper analyzes the behavioral characteristics and influencing factors of the existing building energy efficiency renovation market entities(central government,local government,owners,energy conservation service enterprises,third-party evaluation institutions,and other market entities),and reveals the problems of the existing building energy efficiency renovation market,such as the absence of government,the lack of main power,and the lack of financing channels,Thus,it lays a platform foundation for the research on the behavior strategy and security system of the existing building energy-s aving renovation market.

Behavior game evolution strategy of financing platform for energysaving renovation of existing buildings

The operation optimization of the existing building energy-saving renovation financing platform is the basic support that needs to be solved in the existing building energy-saving renovation practice under the EPC mode.The essence of the operation of building energy-saving transformation financing platform is the joint effect of subjects’choice through the behavioral game strategy.Starting from the analysis of game relationship between the subjects of building energy-saving retrofit market,based on the user game theory,the author constructs a behavioral game model of energy-saving retrofit units,ESCOs and investors,discusses its behavioral game evolution and stability strategy.There is an implementation mechanism for the operation of building energy-saving renovation financing platform to enhance the effectiveness of the operation of the existing building energy-saving renovation financing platform and promote the development of the existing building energy-saving market.

ASYMPTOTIC BEHMIOR OF SOLUTIONS OF FORCED NONLINEAR NEUTRAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

The purpose of this paper is no investigate the asymptotic behavior of soluti- ons of the fored nonlinear neutral diffierential equationsOur rosults, as a special case, improve and extend the corresponding results in[1] and [2].