Academic and Professional Qualifications

Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, China.

Brief Biography

Weiguang Cai is an Associate Professor at School of Construction Management and Real Estate Chongqing University. He received his PhD in management science and engineering from Chongqing University in 2011. His research focuses on building energy efficiency, building energy consumption, building carbon emission and green building. He also actively work on Eco-City and Low-carbon City research.
Dr. Cai also serves as Secretary General of the Energy Consumption Data Special Committee of the China Association of Building Energy Efficiency. He was with the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) from 2016-2017. During his visit Dr. Cai worked on modeling building sector energy use in cities. Dr. Cai had a 4 years(2007-2011) internship at Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development China that he worked on building energy efficiency policy.

Teaching (Courses Taught)

Undergraduate
· Sustainable Construction
· Facility Management

Research

Building Energy Efficiency
· Building Energy Consumption
· Green Building

Selected Publications

[1]Ma M, Cai W. What drives the carbon mitigation in Chinese commercial building sector? Evidence from decomposing an extended Kaya identity[J]. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 634:884-899.
[2]Huo T, Ren H, Zhang X, Cai W*, et al. China's energy consumption in the building sector: A Statistical Yearbook-Energy Balance Sheet based splitting method[J]. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 185(1) :665-679.
[3]Ma M, Yan R, Cai W*. Energy savings evaluation in public building sector during the 10th–12th FYP periods of China: an extended LMDI model approach[J]. Natural Hazards, 2018, 92(1): 429–441.
[4]Huo T, Ren H, Cai W*, et al. The total-factor energy productivity growth of China’s construction industry: evidence from the regional level[J]. Natural Hazards,2018.(Online)
[5]Huo T, Ren H, Cai W, et al. Measurement and Dependence Analysis of Cost Overruns in Megatransport Infrastructure Projects: Case Study in Hong Kong[J]. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2018, 144(3): 05018001.
[6]Minda Ma, Liyin Shen, Hong Ren, Weiguang Cai and Zhili Ma. How to Measure Carbon Emission Reduction in China’s Public Building Sector: Retrospective Decomposition Analysis Based on STIRPAT Model in 2000– 2015[J]. Sustainability, 2017, 9(10): 1744.
[7]Ma M, Yan R, Cai W*. An extended STIRPAT model-based methodology for evaluating the driving forces affecting carbon emissions in existing public building sector: evidence from China in 2000–2015[J]. Natural Hazards, 2017, 89(2): 741-756.
[8]Ma M, Yan R, Cai W*. A STIRPAT model-based methodology for calculating energy savings in China’s existing civil buildings from 2001 to 2015[J]. Natural Hazards, 2017, 87(3): 1-17.
[9]M Ma, R Yan, Y Du, X Ma, W Cai*, P Xu. A methodology to assess China's building energy savings at the national level: An IPAT – LMDI model approach[J]. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017, 143: 784-793.
[10]Wang X, Ren H, Cai W*, et al. Identification of driving factors for green Building development In China[J]. Open House International, 2016, 41(3).
[11]Hong R, Yongjie D, Weiguang C*, et al. 3D Evaluation Model of Eco-city Planning Based on the Distance Measure[J]. Open House International, 2016, 41(3).
[12]Cai W.G,* Wu Y, Zhong Y, et al. China building energy consumption: situation, challenges and corresponding measures[J]. Energy policy, 2009, 37(6): 2054-2059.
[13]Zhong Y, Cai W.G*, Wu Y, et al. Incentive mechanism design for the residential building energy efficiency improvement of heating zones in North China[J]. Energy policy, 2009, 37(6): 2119-2123.