Provisions of Tianjin Municipality on the Administration of Building Energy Conservation

Article 1 In order to strengthen the management of building energy conservation, reduce building energy consumption, improve the efficiency of energy and resource utilization, improve environmental quality, and realize sustainable economic and social development, these Provisions are formulated in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations and combined with the actual situation of this Municipality. Article 2 These Provisions shall be observed in the construction, expansion and reconstruction of buildings and their energy-using systems, the application of building energy-saving products and new wall materials, and the supervision and management of building energy conservation and energy use. Farmers who are not included in the construction management procedures build their own houses, and advocate and gradually implement these provisions. Article 3 The term "building energy efficiency" as mentioned in these Provisions refers to the activities of adopting energy-saving technologies and products, implementing building energy efficiency standards, reducing building energy and resource consumption, and rationally and effectively utilizing energy and resources in the process of building planning, design, construction, construction, supervision and energy-saving operation management. Fourth municipal construction administrative departments to implement unified supervision and management of building energy conservation in this city. City wall material innovation and building energy efficiency management center is responsible for the daily management of building energy efficiency in this city.

District and county construction administrative departments shall be responsible for the supervision and management of building energy conservation within their respective jurisdictions in accordance with the division of construction management. Article 5 The municipal construction administrative department shall, according to the national economic and social development plan of this Municipality, prepare the special plan and annual plan for building energy conservation in this Municipality, which shall be implemented after being approved by the Municipal People's Government. Article 6 This Municipality encourages scientific research and technological development of building energy conservation, promotes new technologies, new processes, new equipment, new materials and new products for building energy conservation, develops new technologies combining renewable energy with buildings, and restricts or prohibits the use of technologies, equipment, materials and products with high building energy consumption.

Units and individuals that have made outstanding contributions and remarkable achievements in building energy conservation work shall be commended and rewarded by the Municipal People's Government or relevant departments. Article 7 The municipal construction administrative department shall, according to the national laws, regulations, rules and relevant standards on building energy efficiency, formulate the standards for building energy efficiency in this Municipality, formulate the catalogue of promotion, restriction and prohibition of the use of building energy-saving technologies and products in this Municipality, and make it public. Eighth planning administrative departments in the examination and approval of the detailed planning or general layout design of construction projects, in determining the layout, orientation and shape of buildings, should consider the requirements of building energy efficiency. Article 9 The construction unit shall implement the building energy-saving standards, specify the technical requirements and product technical indicators of building energy-saving in the design and construction bidding documents and related contracts, provide the construction drawing design documents that have passed the energy-saving review to the construction and supervision units, and organize the acceptance according to the quality acceptance procedures of building energy-saving projects. Article 10 Design units shall design according to building energy-saving standards, ensure the quality of building energy-saving design, specify the content of building energy-saving design in design scheme and construction drawing design documents, and provide the construction unit with construction drawing design documents that have passed the energy-saving review. Eleventh construction drawing design documents review institutions in the construction drawing design documents review, should review the content of building energy efficiency, issued by the review opinions should include building energy efficiency review opinions. Twelfth construction units in the city or district, county construction administrative departments to apply for a construction permit, it should provide the construction drawings and design documents through the review of the building energy-saving part of the engineering and technical information. Thirteenth construction units should be in accordance with the review of qualified construction drawings and design documents and building energy-saving standards, to ensure the quality of building energy-saving projects. The construction unit shall inspect the building energy-saving products entering the construction site of the construction project and use them only after passing the inspection. Article 14 This Municipality implements the filing system for building energy-saving technologies and products. Fifteenth supervision units shall, according to the construction drawing design documents and building energy-saving standards that have passed the examination, take the form of standing by, patrolling and parallel inspection to supervise the building energy-saving projects.

For building energy-saving products that have not been sampled or failed to pass the inspection, the supervision engineer shall not sign a document agreeing to use them; For sub-divisions and sub-items of building energy-saving projects that have not been accepted or failed through experience, the project quality qualification documents shall not be signed. Sixteenth construction quality supervision institutions shall strengthen the supervision and inspection of the construction process of building energy-saving projects, and shall be ordered to make corrections if they fail to follow the construction drawing design documents and building energy-saving standards; For the division and sub-item acceptance of building energy-saving projects, the construction unit shall be ordered to reorganize the acceptance. Seventeenth the implementation of building energy efficiency performance testing system in this Municipality, and the specific work shall be organized and implemented by the municipal construction administrative department. Article 18 heating units shall build heat sources, primary heating pipe network systems and heat exchange stations in accordance with building energy efficiency standards, specify the technical requirements and product technical indicators of building energy efficiency in design and construction bidding documents and related contracts, and organize acceptance according to the acceptance procedures of heating projects.

Buildings that meet the building energy efficiency standards should gradually implement heating metering and charging. Article 19 A real estate development enterprise shall publicize the basic information such as the energy-saving measures, the thermal insulation performance index of the envelope structure and the corresponding protection requirements of the commercial housing sold in a prominent position at the house sales site, and specify them in the instructions for the use of the commercial housing. Twentieth energy-saving renovation of existing buildings with high energy consumption as planned. The municipal construction administrative department shall formulate an energy-saving renovation plan for existing buildings, which shall be organized and implemented by the district and county people's governments after being approved by the Municipal People's government.