Abstract:
Green buildings in China have witnessed three development stages, which are building energy conservation, energy conservation and land saving, four savings and one environmental protection (energy saving, land saving, water saving, material saving and environmental protection). Under the guidance of policies and standards, green buildings have developed rapidly. In the future, green buildings will realize combination between single building and green ecological urban area, which will promote the development of large scale green buildings; the focus of green buildings will turn from new building construction to reconstruction of existing buildings; healthy building will become the deep demand of green buildings development, which will pay more attentions on people's health; researches and practices on green buildings will become more and more sophisticated, and the green building concept will go wider and wider. Standards for green building will play an important role in protecting and guiding green buildings development in China.