Industry Information: The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development jointly issued a document to promote green buildings/building materials in government procurement projects, with six cities including

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2020-10-21 00:00

        Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development issued a notice on the pilot work of government procurement to support green building materials to promote building quality improvement, requiring purchasers to fulfill their main responsibility for implementing policies and effectively increase the proportion of green buildings and green building materials in government procurement projects by strengthening procurement demand management and other measures.

 

 

       The notice proposes to promote green building materials products such as recyclable building materials, high-strength and durable building materials, green component parts, green decoration materials, water-saving and energy-saving building materials in government procurement projects, actively apply prefabricated, intelligent and other new industrial construction methods for buildings, and encourage the construction of two-star or above green buildings.

       The notice also pointed out that by 2022, government procurement demand standards for green buildings and green building materials will be basically formed, policy measures and working mechanisms will gradually improve, the quality of government procurement engineering buildings will be improved, and the concept of green consumption and green development will be further strengthened.

      According to the notice, the pilot cities are Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Huzhou, Qingdao, and Foshan. Encourage other regions to actively promote the application of green buildings and green building materials in accordance with the requirements of this notice.

      New government procurement projects, such as hospitals, schools, office buildings, complexes, exhibition halls, convention centers, stadiums, affordable housing, etc., are encouraged to include other new construction projects implemented with financial funds in the pilot areas.

       Article source: People's Daily Online