Significant environmental challenges remain due to growing construction industry energy
consumption (CIEC). Most existing studies focus on energy consumption at the city level …

Since the construction sector, interacting with urbanization and economic growth, boosts
energy consumption and CO 2 emissions, and so challenges environmental sustainability …

The rapid urbanization process was bound to produce considerable energy demand in
China, which increased the pressure on sustainable development. This study employed a …

Urbanization has an important impact on building energy consumption. Unfortunately,
whether the later-urbanized provincial regions are more energy-efficient than those early …

Cement production reportedly accounts for the largest global materials flow, thus achieving
global environmental sustainability through responsible consumption and production is …

(1) Background: The decoupling of energy consumption from economic growth in the
construction industry is crucial to the sustainable development of the global construction …

Examining the driving factors of Chinese commercial building energy consumption (CCBEC)
plays an important role in Chinese building energy efficiency work. However, Chinese …

This work investigates the dynamic heterogeneous causal links among financial
development, construction industry, energy use, and environmental quality across the …

The rapid urbanization in China has produced a large demand for energy in the past
decades. It is therefore urgent to have an understanding of the driving forces behind the …

The construction industry plays a vital role in global economic development and is also an
important industrial sector affecting global energy consumption. Energy conservation is an …