BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION OF ENERGY PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING (EPC) MECHANISM INTO HOTEL BUILDINGS RETROFIT IN CHINA misbe2011 Tracking Number 121Presentation: Session: General Paper Session W65 - Construction bidding and contracting Room: Assay Hall Session start: 10:30 Tue 21 Jun 2011 Pengpeng Xu xupp.cn@gmail.com Affifliation: Department of Building & Real Estate, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Edwin Hon-wan Chan bsedchan@polyu.edu.hk Affifliation: Department of Building & Real Estate, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Topics: - Construction bidding and contracting (General Themes) Abstract: Building sector contributes a large part of total energy consumption. Building Energy Efficiency Retrofit (BEER) is an effective approach to save energy & reduce emission and improve sustainability of existing buildings. Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), a market oriented mechanism provided by Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), has been widely used to improve energy efficiency in developed countries. EPC mechanism has been introduced in China since 1990s and implemented in different energy efficiency improvement projects. However, EPC mechanism is still unimplemented in some existing building retrofit projects. This research takes hotel buildings as example aims to identify the barriers to implementation of EPC mechanism into hotel buildings retrofit in China. Quality research methodology is employed in this research. In order to identify these barriers, a set of interviews are conducted. After that, a qualitative analysis of feedback information is discussed. Finally, a series of corresponding measures for remove identified barriers are proposed. |