Japan-China Workshop 2008, Nagoya

“Japan-China Workshop 2008, Nagoya” provides a discussion place for urban energy systems, building environment and energy systems, life-cycle energy management systems, commissioning process and retro-commissioning, HVAC simulation technologies and other various and wide range of energy-environment concerned building and global issues. This is the result of close contacts for more than twenty years between Building Environment departments of Nagoya University and Tsinghua University and recent frequent meetings and missions organized by Public Building Association.

In China, where various industrial sectors have rapidly developed, building and housing stock and their energy demand are enormously increasing and CO2 exhaustion is as well to the extent that China may become one of the principal issues at the global energy and environmental discussions. China itself also put five kinds of conservation as the most important issues, these are, 1) energy conservation, 2) water conservation, 3) material conservation and 4) economic conservation.

Chinese delegates consist of professors, government officers and engineers of private companies from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Both Chinese and Japanese delegates alternately discuss some of the most important building energy related subjects such as prospect for energy consumption and CO2 exhaustion, building energy conservation strategies in national as well as regional basis, optimization and evaluation of urban district energy systems, role of commissioning process for new buildings as well as existing buildings with case studies and actual results and outline of energy and HVAC system commissioning tools with actual applications. Comprehensive discussion will lead to an agreeable conclusion that will request further cooperation in R&D and policy making.