What Is the Amount of China’s Building Floor Space from 1996 to 2014?
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School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtse River, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China
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Chongqing Yukang Asset Management Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400020, China
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School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(16), 5967; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165967
Received: 12 July 2020
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Revised: 1 August 2020
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Accepted: 3 August 2020
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Published: 17 August 2020
The amount of building floor space (BFS) plays a key role in the energy and material demand prediction. Unfortunately, BFS estimation has faced the challenge of ineffective and inadequate approaches, and thus reliable data concerning China’s BFS is unavailable. This study proposes a new estimation method for China’s BFS and then estimates historical BFS by type in China from 1996 to 2014. The results show that total Chinese BFS grew from 28.1 billion m2 in 1996 to 61.3 billion m2 in 2014, increasing more than twice, with an annual growth rate of 4.4% from 1996 to 2014. During 1996–2014, urban residential BFS witnessed the highest annual increase rate (9.3%), while the growth rate for commercial and rural residential BFS was lower: 4.4% and 1.6%, respectively. By comparing with available statistics data, this study finds the model deviations are well below 5%, which indicates the reliability of the proposed method and robustness of the results. The proposed method not only can address the deficiencies of statistic yearbook and overcome the shortages of previous estimation approaches but also can derive more accurate and reliable data. This study lays a sound basis for the following study on building stock and building energy efficiency work.
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Keywords:
China; building stock; energy consumption in the building sector; residential building; commercial building
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Pan, L.; Zhu, M.; Lang, N.; Huo, T. What Is the Amount of China’s Building Floor Space from 1996 to 2014? Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 5967. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165967
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Pan L, Zhu M, Lang N, Huo T. What Is the Amount of China’s Building Floor Space from 1996 to 2014? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(16):5967. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165967
Chicago/Turabian StylePan, Linwei, Minglei Zhu, Ningning Lang, and Tengfei Huo. 2020. "What Is the Amount of China’s Building Floor Space from 1996 to 2014?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 16: 5967. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165967
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