Industry News | Shanghai's cumulative green building area has reached 422 million square meters, and future new building energy efficiency standards will be improved

Green buildings are one of the important ways to achieve the "dual carbon" goals and are also an important tool to promote the formation of a green and low-carbon production method. At the "2025 Shanghai Green Building International Forum" held on the afternoon of June 24, the "Shanghai Green Building Development Report (2024)" was released. In 2024, Shanghai implemented a new green building area of 38.83 million square meters, of which the proportion of two-star and above green buildings was about 69.2%. By the end of 2024, the cumulative green building area in Shanghai reached 422 million square meters, and a total of 1244 projects have obtained green building star ratings. How to make more "breathing" green buildings stand up? The report points out that the construction of ultra-low energy consumption buildings in Shanghai continued to advance in 2024, with a total of 2.03 million square meters of ultra-low energy consumption projects and 1.22 million square meters of near-zero energy consumption buildings. The construction of green ecological urban areas has also made positive progress. By the end of 2024, the city has successfully built 37 green ecological urban areas, with a total land area of about 89.38 square kilometers. In 2024, 4.1 million square meters of energy-saving renovation of existing public buildings were promoted and implemented, and the city-level carbon emission intelligent monitoring platform was comprehensively optimized and upgraded and integrated innovation. At the same time, strengthening legislative guidance. The "Shanghai Green Building Regulations" will come into effect on January 1, 2025, further clarifying the main responsibilities of the city's green building development work, forming a "mandatory + guidance" green building promotion mechanism, providing strong legal guarantee for improving the city's green building development level and promoting green development of urban and rural construction. In 2024, Shanghai actively promoted the high-quality development of green buildings from aspects of green design, green construction, and green operation. In the green design stage, Shanghai continued to implement the requirement that 100% of new buildings meet green building standards. In the green construction stage, attention was paid to the innovation and application of intelligent construction technologies, and multiple intelligent construction pilot projects were built in ultra-low energy consumption projects, strengthening the application of BIM, robot construction, and digital twin technologies to reduce building carbon emissions. In the green operation stage, strengthening the energy consumption supervision of the building operation period and continuously deepening the energy consumption monitoring of public buildings. By the end of 2024, a total of 2357 public buildings in the city have completed the installation of energy sub-metering devices and realized data interconnection with the platform, covering a building area of nearly 116 million square meters. By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan", in accordance with the requirements of the carbon peak target for the building sector, Shanghai will further improve the proportion of three-star green buildings, complete the cumulative carbon emission monitoring area of public buildings to reach 150 million square meters, and complete a cumulative energy-saving renovation of 80 million square meters of existing buildings, of which the comprehensive energy-saving rate of public building renovation with 15% or more will reach 6 million square meters. At the same time, promote energy saving and carbon reduction in the building sector, and fully implement the 75% energy saving rate requirement for new building energy efficiency standards. In addition, explore the establishment of green finance implementation approaches to stimulate industrial and market vitality.