Framework to investigate energy conservation motivation and actions of building occupants: The case of a green campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Azar, Elie; Ansari, Hamad Al

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.12.128

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“…Based on this fact, the authors of this paper decided to classify the green building motivators under three main categories; which are: environmental, economic, and social motivators. (Lam et al, 2010), (Bond, 2010), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Lee et al, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Abidin & Powmya, 2014), (Rustom, 2014), (D. Nduka & Ogunsanmi, 2015), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Azar & Al Ansari, 2017), 2 Control of climate change. (Bond, 2010), (Gündoğan, 2012), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Lee et al, 2013), (Rustom, 2014), (Aste et al, 2016) 3 Compatibility with environmental regulations (McGraw-Hill, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Dodge, 2016), (Shen et al, 2016), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017) 4…”

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“…Creating of better future opportunities (Ng, 2013), (Deutsche, 2016) 26 Self-identity (M. Azizi & Sakina, 2010), (Bond, 2010), (Abidin & Powmya, 2014), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Olubunmi et al, 2016), (Olanipekun, 2016), (Deutsche, 2016) 3 9.375 (Gündoğan, 2012), (McGraw-Hill, 2013), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Rustom, 2014), (Usman & Gidado, 2015), (Dodge, 2016) (Bond, 2010), (Azis et al, 2013), (Lee et al, 2013), (Dahiru et al, 2014), (Windapo, 2014), (Aste et al, 2016), (MacNaughton et al, 2016), (Shazmin et al, 2016), , (Azar & Al Ansari, 2017), (Yang et al, 2017), Handan Gundogan (2012), pointed out in her study that, in Turkey "Reducing negative impacts of buildings on environment" was the primary motivation for the implementation of green buildings, followed by "Decreased use of natural resources", "Control of the climate change", and "Increased water and air quality" respectively (Gündoğan, 2012).…”

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“…Providing a good opportunity for investment returns (Construction, 2008), (Chan et al, 2009), (M. Azizi & Sakina, 2010), (Gündoğan, 2012), (Azis et al, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Yang et al, 2017), 11 Increasing occupant productivity (Construction, 2008), (Chan et al, 2009), (Ng, 2013), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), 12 Increasing occupancy rate (Construction, 2008), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017) 13 Increasing rental and sale value (Construction, 2008), (Chan et al, 2009), (Azis et al, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Usman & Gidado, 2015) 14 Providing lower annual energy cost (Construction, 2008), (Lam et al, 2010), (Gündoğan, 2012), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Windapo, 2014), (Rustom, 2014), (D. Nduka & Ogunsanmi, 2015), (Aste et al, 2016), (Shen et al, 2016), (Shazmin et al, 2016), (Deutsche, 2016), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Azar & Al Ansari, 2017) …”

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“…Providing improved comfort, health, and well-being of occupants (Construction, 2008), (Ng, 2013), (D. Nduka & Ogunsanmi, 2015), (Usman & Gidado, 2015), (Dodge, 2016), (Olubunmi et al, 2016), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), 21 Improving the quality of life for individuals (Gündoğan, 2012), (Usman & Gidado, 2015) 22 Satisfaction from doing the right thing (McGraw-Hill, 2013), (Abidin & Powmya, 2014), (Dahiru et al, 2014), (Dodge, 2016) 23 Government regulations and policies (M. Azizi & Sakina, 2010), (Lee et al, 2013), (Abidin & Powmya, 2014), (Windapo, 2014), (Shen et al, 2016), (Deutsche, 2016), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017) 24 Moral imperative or social conscience (Bond, 2010), (Diyana & Abidin, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Azar & Al Ansari, 2017), …”

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Motivators for Green Buildings: A Review

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Motivators can be defined as specific catalysts that drive people to act in a certain way. These motivators are important for promoting green buildings and have a clear impact on decision-makers to adopt and implement the green building concept in architectural practice. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review to identify the important motivators for the adoption of green buildings among the stakeholders of the construction industry, the categorization and efficiency of green building motivators, and also the strategies for green building motivators.By reviewing 32 relevant studies conducted in different countries from 2008 to 2017, a total of 26 factors were identified as the main motivators to promote green buildings. These green building motivators were categorized into environmental, economic, and social motivators. With regard to efficiency, it was found that all green building motivators, whether environmental, economic or social are important for promoting green buildings and to determine a priority among these categories was not possible. The strategies for the adoption of green building motivators were also found. It is notable that the government has the greatest role to motivate stakeholders to adopt and implement the green building concept.The literature review of this study has a wide scope, covering most of the countries in the world, including developed and developing countries from the West to East. Hence, unlike most studies on the main issue of this paper that focus on a specific country or region, this in-depth research led to the development of a list of motivators for green buildings, derived from an extensive range of nations, which vary from environmental, economic, and social ISSN 2164-7682 2018 http://emsd.macrothink.org 138 aspects. This paper is expected to provide valuable information for decision-makers in the construction industry, namely, governmental authorities, design teams, and owners of projects regarding what motivate people to help further promote green buildings. The findings may also be useful for researchers to pursue further analyses on similar topics. Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

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“…This situation is different in UAE, where ambient air pollutant levels, especially PMs from dust storms and trace gases from petroleum industries, are very high. Such conditions have led to high usage of air conditioners in UAE (Azar and Al Ansari, 2017;Bekhet et al, 2017;Giusti and Almoosawi, 2017;Krarti and Dubey, 2018). According to Azuma et al (2018), air conditioners are one of the main sources of indoor PMs (mostly PM 0.1 ) as those fine PMs are emitted via medium efficiency particulate air filters (normally used in residential building air conditioners).…”

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