Developing a green building assessment tool for developing countries – Case of Jordan

Ali, Hikmat H.; Nsairat, Saba F. Al

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.07.015

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“…(Abdulai, Obeng-Odoom, Ochieng, and Maliene (2016), Ali and Nsairat (2009), Cole (2005), Chau, Tse, and Chung (2010), Ding (2008), Tambovceva, Geipele, and Geipele (2012), Kibert (2012), Lavasani and Werner (2012), Sarsby and Meggyes (2009), Diaz-Sarachaga, Jato-Espino, Alsulami, and Castro-Fresno, (2016) The economic crisis, which most severely hit the economy of Latvia, forced the real estate and construction sectors to purify themselves, improve and think of survival and future development opportunities. Therefore, like elsewhere in Europe, many concepts became topical in the construction sector of Latvia, such as sustainable construction, low-energy consumption buildings or low-energy building, green buildings or green construction, passive houses, lean construction or ascetic, economic construction and others (Stāmure, Kamola, & Geipele, 2015).…”

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Case Study of Standard Multi-Storey Residential Building Owners and Tenants’ Perception of Building Technical Conditions and Renovation Issues

Šnīdere

Geipele

Stāmure

2017

Baltic Journal of Real Estate Economics and Construction Management

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Abstract. The majority of residents in Latvia live in standard multi-storey residential buildings, which were constructed between 1950 and 1992. At present, these buildings are obsolete; besides, in the course of construction process the durability and reliability levels were planned to be insufficient. In Riga, residents of standard multi-storey residential buildings do not support building renovation and are passive, despite the availability of the EU and government support as well as co-financing of building renovation projects. The majority of the respondents assume that the apartment is the most significant asset of the family. Moreover, 34 % -69 % of the participants have renovated their apartment and save resources within their apartment boundaries. Only some respondents evaluate the technical condition of communal property, but most respondents do not have information concerning resource supply and energy accounting as well as are not interested in resource saving possibilities within the building in general, and do not understand the importance of technical maintenance of the building.

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Section: Quantitative Evaluation Of Standard Multi-storey Residentialmentioning

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Case Study of Standard Multi-Storey Residential Building Owners and Tenants’ Perception of Building Technical Conditions and Renovation Issues

Šnīdere

Geipele

Stāmure

2017

Baltic Journal of Real Estate Economics and Construction Management

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“…The initial step in developing a new rating tool is to select the assessment areas that should be included and next, determine the parameters, attributes or indicators that can be used to measure the selected aspects [24], [25] [25]. The construct indicators were initially compiled from the existing performance and green rating tools and also precedent research relating to building performance [2], [7], [8], [10]- [12], [17], [26]- [29].…”

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“…In AHP, all criteria or parameters are assigned with the weight score that shows the importance of each criterion. The AHP approach has been widely adopted in the built environment fields as decision-making tool [25], [34]- [36]. Existing performance schemes and rating tools such as LEED, BHHI and BSCI also adopted the process of AHP to develop hierarchy or rating tool [35], [37].…”

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Analytical Hierarchy Process for Developing a Building Performance-Risk Rating Tool

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Abstract. The need to optimize the performance of buildings has increased consequently due to the expansive supply of facilities in higher education building (HEB). Proper performance assessment as a proactive measure may help university building in achieving performance optimization. However, the current maintenance programs or performance evaluation in the HEB is a systemic and cyclic process where maintenance is considered as an operational issue and not as opposed to a strategic issue. Hence, this paper proposed a Building Performance Risk Rating Tool (BPRT) as an improved measure for building performance evaluation by addressing the users' risk in health and safety aspects. The BPRT is developed from the result of a rating index using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. 12 facilities management (FM) experts and practitioners were involved in the rating process. The subjective weightings are analysed using the AHP computer software, the Expert Choice 11. The establishment of the BPRT was introduced as an aid of improvement towards the current performance assessment of HEB by emerging the concept of building performance and risk into a numerical strategic approach

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“…As a result, a large burden is placed on public buildings, infrastructure, services and the environment. Jordan also suffers from problems shared by the international community, e.g., increasing energy concerns and levels of pollution (Ali and Al Nsairat 2009). Jordan is already one of the World's most water-stressed countries, with 95% of its land mass being desert and much of the rest susceptible to desertification (Kisbi 2011).…”

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Paving the Road for Sustainable Construction in Developing Countries: A Study of the Jordanian Construction Industry

Alkilani

Jupp

2013

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There is an increasing pressure on governments of developing economies to support sustainable construction procurement. In exploring this issue, this research asks three related questions: (1) how is sustainable procurement perceived in developing economies, (2) how can government regulation influence its application, and (3) what is the role of performance measurement in stimulating sustainable procurement practices? Answers are sought via an investigation exploring the underlying issues and challenges facing the construction industry of a developing country looking to address sustainable procurement. Using primary and secondary data sources, this research presents a case study of the Jordanian construction industry. Findings show that whilst sustainable procurement practices are promoted, it is still in its infancy -in part due to ineffective procurement frameworks and a lack of performance measurement. Current government regulations and policies are identified as an underlying cause, discouraging the development and adoption of sustainable procurement methods. As the Jordanian construction industry shares characteristics with other developing economies, it is expected that the findings of this paper will be of interest to professionals in those construction industries attempting to initiate sustainable procurement via performance measurement.

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Developing a green building assessment tool for developing countries – Case of Jordan

Cited by 467 publications

References 6 publications

Case Study of Standard Multi-Storey Residential Building Owners and Tenants’ Perception of Building Technical Conditions and Renovation Issues

Case Study of Standard Multi-Storey Residential Building Owners and Tenants’ Perception of Building Technical Conditions and Renovation Issues

Analytical Hierarchy Process for Developing a Building Performance-Risk Rating Tool

Paving the Road for Sustainable Construction in Developing Countries: A Study of the Jordanian Construction Industry

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