The Strategies of Energy Efficiency Retrofit of Old Industrial Building

The envelop enclosure reconstructuring, the natural lighting and ventilation organization, renewable resources utilization and the automatic controlling system application are four aspects that should be kept with attention in the low energy consumption reconstruction of old industrial buildings. By taking technical measures such as changing wall body, doors and windows material, rationally using wind and thermal pressure at the site, taking full advantage of energy like solar and geothermal power and introducing high-tech controlling system, the energy consumption of old industrial buildings can be effectively reduced. Since 1990s, along with the world economic structural transition, the old industrial buildings reconstructuring reached high tide all over the world and all kinds of related cases were still in common. Among which, how to reduce building energy consumption becomes a major aspect of industrial buildings reconstructuring. As to this problem, many architects made productive attempts and got positive effects. This paper tries to make a conclusion of the experiences mentioned above, wishing to provide some references for future work.