Abstract
Green building has become one of the most efficient measures to pursue a
sustainable built environment over the past fifteen years. Therefore, the government of
Taiwan established the Commission on Sustainable Development in 1996 under the
Executive Yuan, to come up with policy guidelines and implementation plans. The
concept of green building and its corresponding promotion programs were thus initiated
from 2001, and continued developing to Eco-City and Green Building Promotion Act.
The major outcome of the research plan at the first stage was to establish a green
building evaluation system that was capable of accommodating the subtropical/tropical
climate condition and local environmental issues, and providing quantitative formulae and
explicit criteria to effectively increase its operational feasibility. Taiwan’s green building
evaluation system was first announced in 1998. The current evaluation system, integrated
with nine indicators, was thus set up. These indicators can be divided into four categories,
Ecology, Energy Saving, Waste Reduction, and Health (known as EEWH system). In
addition to the evaluation tool itself, a Green Building Labeling system for green building
certification was also established in 1999. The certification now consists of two parts:
Green Building Label for completed buildings, and Green Building Candidate Certificate
for building projects. Until Oct. 2011, there were 2,396Green Building Candidate
Certificate cases, and 725Green Building Labels for completed building in Taiwan.
This research focuses on the energy saving issue of the green residential building
cases of the Green Building Labels for completed building. By investigation of the electric
energy consumption of green residential building, and increasing the green officee
building cases, we try to compare theenergy use intensity (EUI) of the buildings partlyin
Taiwan. On the second, this research will evaluate CO2 emmission BAU (Business as
Usual) of the residential sector in Taiwan by the total energy comsumption.
Furthermore, the research evaluated the electric energy saving and CO2 reduction of
the completed green office and residential buildings and Green Building Candidate
Certificate cases. And take some strategy suggestion on energy saving deseign for
residential building.