Decarbonizing Urban Residential Buildings

Yi Jiang is Professor and Head of the Building Energy Research Center, Tsinghua University, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has been involved in a number of international collaboration projects such as IEA EBC (International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities) Annex 21, 25, 34, 53 and 59. He is also a member of China’s Energy Advisory Committee under the State Council, and a member of China’s Climate Change Advisory Committee. His major research field is building energy efficiency and low carbon buildings. He is the chief editor of the Annual Progress Reports of Chna Building Energy Efficiency, among many other publications. He received four Chinese national science awards for controls of district heating system, liquid desiccant air-process, indirect evaporative cooling, and building energy simulation (DeST).

Dr. Shan Hu is an assistant profressor of Tsinghua University. Dr. Shan Hu graduated from Tsinghua University in 2018, worked in the Building Energy Group of the International Energy Agency in 2018, and joined the Building Energy Research Center of Tsinghua University in 2020. She is engaged in modeling and policy research related to building energy and climate change. Her main research results include "Annual Development Research Report on Building Energy Efficiency in China", "China Building Energy Use", "Building energy use in China" (joint report with IEA), "The future of cooling in China" (joint report with IEA (joint report with IEA) and articles in English and Chinese, which are important reference materials for domestic and international understanding of energy consumption and emissions in China's building sector. Currently, Shan Hu is also the chapter scientist and contributing author of the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).