Design Strategies for Multi-Unit Residential Buildings During the Post-pandemic Era in China

Xu, Yanqing; Juan, Yi‐Kai

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.761614

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“…However, in developing countries such as China, the public's requirements for the scale of housing space have just been met, and citizens are currently in the initial stage of improving their quality of living ( 5 ). In fact, most of the people live in ordinary housing, which does not provide such facilities as fresh air systems or constant temperature and humidity systems that are equipped with healthy housing ( 6 ). In the initial stage of novel technology's diffusion or new product's promotion, the public often holds some cognitive biases ( 7 ).…”

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Willingness to Pay for Healthy Housing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Evidence From Eye-Tracking Experiment

Guo

Fan

Zhu

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Front. Public Health

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Healthy housing can set its occupants completely in good physical, mental and social conditions, but there is a lack of research in China on the public's willingness to pay (WTP) for healthy housing. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, this study constructs an analytical framework based on the model of “theory of planned behavior” (TPB), the theory of selective information exposure, and the model of “emotions as social information,” while exploring the effect mechanism of the online reviews on the public's WTP for healthy housing during COVID-19 pandemic. In combination with eye-tracking experiments and subjective reports, physiological, psychological and behavioral multimodal data on WTP of 65 participants for healthy housing are collected. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is adopted to analyze the formation effect mechanism of the public's WTP for healthy housing. This study acquires the following results: (i) Information attentiveness to online reviews on different valence information of healthy housing as obtained in eye tracking experiments delivers significant effect on attitude, subjective norm (SN) and perceived behavioral control (PBC), but has no direct effect on the public's WTP for healthy housing; (ii) Hypotheses from TPB model are verified. attitude, PBC and SN can all make significant effect on WTP for healthy housing, with attitude showcasing the most prominent effect; and (iii) In terms of the mediating effect, information attentiveness can deliver significant indirect effect on WTP through attitude.

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Willingness to Pay for Healthy Housing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Evidence From Eye-Tracking Experiment

Guo

Fan

Zhu

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…In view of user preferences, many previous studies have proposed various qualitative and quantitative methods for mining user needs. Qualitative methods focus on understanding user needs through observation, interview, and user experience analysis (Park et al, 2013), while quantitative methods have attracted more attention in recent years by using the Kano model to classify and rank user needs, which has been widely used in various fields (Juan et al, 2019;Lu & Juan, 2021;Xu & Juan, 2021). As for cost-benefit analysis, the zero-one integer programming (ZOIP) method, an important branch of management science, is suitable for dealing with the optimization problem of scheme selection under a limited budget, and has mature applications in the construction field (Juan et al, 2021).…”

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Optimal decision-making model for selecting residential green building technologies in China

Juan²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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China is expected to have an annual demand of 1 billion square meters of new residential floor areas in the next few years. Housing developers have adopted various green building technologies (GBTs) in building designs to meet the constantly rising green building (GB) standards. However, they often ignore users’ satisfaction and perception of these GBTs and doubt the cost-benefit assessment of GBTs. This study first constructed GBTs commonly used in residential construction in the Yangtze River Delta region, China. In particular, it adopted the Kano model and the Customer Satisfaction Coefficient (CSC) model to conduct questionnaire surveys on 171 Ningbo households to analyze the differences between developers’ and users’ perceptions of GBTs. Further, a zero-one integer programming (ZOIP) approach was used to build an optimal decision-making model for housing developers to select GBTs that take into account developers’ incremental cost and benefit assessment. The results showed that residents focus on technologies related to comfort and health issues, followed by energy-efficient technologies with lower costs. High-cost and low-scoring GBTs, such as new air systems and Low-E center louvered glass, will be excluded. The decision model clarifies the differences between developers’ and users’ perceptions of GBTs and effectively assists developers in rationalizing the selection of GBTs. Furthermore, it is suggested that the proposed model can be widely applied to other projects in different regions in the future to promote GB markets in China.

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“…Therefore, appropriate designs, should be regarded as a way through which countries in the developing world like Ghana can accept to use after addressing the relevant issues associated with it, in order to close the gap of huge housing deficit facing this part of the world. According to [19,20] designs impact the delivery of housing in a variety of ways. For example, the choice of design type, materials and their applications have a significant environmental impact, depending on the sources of materials, their durability, and potential reuse.…”

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Appropriate Technology and Design: A Solution for Sustainable and Affordable Housing Delivery in Major Cities of Ghana

Tekpe

Ansah²,

Akomah³

2022

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Appropriate technology and design for housing delivery undoubtedly has abundant cost benefit and other advantages. However, the acceptance of its usage and application for sustainable and affordable housing delivery is rare. Appropriate technology supports and enhances good life without compromising the earth’s ecosystem and the prospects of later generations. It is energy efficient, environmentally sound, and it is been controlled by the local community with local available materials. Appropriate housing design on other hand, focuses on the engineering and architectural perspective of a structure that supports sustainable construction and development. The paper aimed at determining the extent to which appropriate technologies and designs are currently employed in addressing housing sustainability and affordability in Ghana. Questionnaire survey was used for the data collection. The study was conducted in Accra, Takoradi and Cape Coast of Ghana within the period of 5 Months. In total, 110 questionnaires were distributed among Building and Construction Professionals and Self- Built House Owners. Out of the number distributed, 56 were retrieved for analysis. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study established that, hydrafoam, adobe bricks technology, timber homes technology, and wattle and daub technology were considered the most used and acceptable appropriate technologies for sustainable and affordable housing delivering. The findings of the study also revealed that, the extent to which appropriate technologies and designs have been adopted in major cities in Ghana is low. This implies that less emphasis is placed on the use of appropriate technology and design in resolving sustainable and affordable housing issues in major cities. It is therefore, suggested that, government and stakeholders mainstream the use of appropriate designs and technologies for sustainable and affordable delivery. Consequently, stakeholders should help change the perception of Ghanaians towards the adoption of appropriate technologies and designs for sustainable and affordable housing delivery.

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Design Strategies for Multi-Unit Residential Buildings During the Post-pandemic Era in China

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

Willingness to Pay for Healthy Housing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Evidence From Eye-Tracking Experiment

Willingness to Pay for Healthy Housing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Evidence From Eye-Tracking Experiment

Optimal decision-making model for selecting residential green building technologies in China

Appropriate Technology and Design: A Solution for Sustainable and Affordable Housing Delivery in Major Cities of Ghana

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