Using Renewable and Recyclable Materials in Planning Green Building

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The paper presents the issues that there have the huge challenges in constuction industry about resources and the environment, and human make effort to solve the problem. According to the methods of reducing energy in buildings and the latest experience of building technology , the trends shown that building design and building materials should be large use of renewable and recyclable materials; the goals of development of resources, environment and economic should be focus on green building to enhance the employment-generation capacity of the construction.

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