中国建筑科学研究院cabr近零能耗示范建筑-construction21.doc

Nearly Zero Energy Building of China Academy of Building Research I. Project introduction 1. Background China and the United States are both major energy producers and consumers with strong complementarity in energy technology collaboration. Sino-US Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) was established on June 15th, 2009, with $150 million investment from both countries as the start-up capital. The opening ceremony of CERC has been held in Washington, D.C. on January 18th,2011. Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Department of Energy for the United States, Mr. WAN Gang, the Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) of China; and Mr. ZHANG Guobao, General Director of National Energy Administration (NEA) of China, have inaugurated for CERC. Impacted by the continuous enhancement of economy and improvement of living standards, building energy demand keeps on increasing and the phenomenon of “southward heating and northward cooling” has been more and more prominent, leading to steady increases of utilization time and energy consumption of building energy systems. Internationally, the building sector has topped the list of energy consumptions for main developed countries, far exceeding those of the industry sector and transport sector. Accordingly, main developed countries have proposed their 2020, 2030, and 2050 objective and roadmap of (nearly) zero energy building. The working objectives of Building Energy Efficiency Consortium of CERC is to promote the ultra-low and zero energy consumption of buildings by integrating high performance building envelope system, renewable energy system, advanced heating, ventilating and air conditioning system, innovative energy storage technology, and intelligent building control. Through the pilot studies from 2011 to 2013, based on the Nearly Zero Energy Building of China Academy of Building Research, or in short as CABR NZEB, scientists and researchers from both China and the United States have been collaborating on various