Social problems of green buildings: From the humanistic needs to social acceptance

Zhao, Dongxue; He, Bao‐Jie; Johnson, Christine A.; Mou, Ben

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.072

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“…Häkkinen and Belloni [34] further claimed that developing the awareness of clients about the benefits of green buildings is one of the most essential actions to encourage green building. Moreover, as the attitudes and behaviors of consumers and the public have a significant influence on the promotion of green building [35], strengthening publicity and education has been considered an effective means to boost public awareness of environmental sustainability and customers' willingness to pay for green buildings [28]. After a careful review of the literature, Table 1 provides a list of 12 proposed strategies for promoting GBTs adoption in the construction industry.…”

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Strategies for Promoting Green Building Technologies Adoption in the Construction Industry—An International Study

2017

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Abstract:Because green building technologies (GBTs) adoption is a promising way of ameliorating the sustainability performance of buildings, GBTs are receiving increased interest in the global construction community. The barriers to the adoption of GBTs, such as higher cost and lack of awareness, further indicate that proper strategies need to be devised for promoting the wider adoption of GBTs in buildings development. However, there exist limited empirical studies identifying the strategies for promoting GBTs adoption in the construction industry. This study aims to identify the strategies that are important for promoting GBTs adoption in construction. After a comprehensive literature review to identify strategies for the promotion of GBTs adoption, empirical data were gleaned through a questionnaire survey with 104 green building experts around the world. The analysis results validated the importance of all of the 12 promotion strategies used for the study. Green building experts from different countries and with different backgrounds had significant agreement on the relative importance ranking of the promotion strategies. Furthermore, "financial and further market-based incentives for GBTs adopters", "availability of better information on cost and benefits of GBTs", "mandatory governmental policies and regulations", and "green rating and labeling" were identified as the top four important promotion strategies. The research findings provide a valuable reference to assist practitioners and policy makers in developing practical strategies for promoting GBTs adoption to eventually achieve the sustainable development of buildings. From the perspective of international experts, this study adds to the green building literature by offering empirical evidence of the important strategies for promoting GBTs adoption in the construction industry. Future research will investigate the interrelationships among the promotion strategies and their impacts on the GBTs adoption process.

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“…These ways of grouping are quite similar to the Kano method (Witell et al, 2013). These humanistic concerns can be applied in conceptual design process and should not be ignored in the earliest design stage (Zhao et al, 2015).…”

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User-focused design factors of workspace for nearly zero energy office renovation: findings from literature review

Kwon¹,

Remøy²,

Dobbelsteen³

et al. 2017

24th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

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This paper highlights the importance of considering user satisfaction in office renovation. Userfocused design approach in nearly zero energy office (nZEO) renovation is a way to increase user satisfaction and the value of office quality while meeting energy efficiency goal. The purpose of this paper is to investigate considerable measurement factors affecting user satisfaction. It is also to help better understating about user/occupants' preferences. Measurement factors are studied through literature reviews in relation to user satisfaction of workspaces. The approach aims to give a guide for analysis and evaluation of user satisfaction and to strengthen their importance in an office renovation. The findings present that main measurement factors to increase user satisfaction are not only associated with indoor environmental quality but also with psychological issues such as a feasibility of collaboration, social contact, etc. Additionally, the relationship between measurement factors and hierarchy of user requirements are described.

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“…These observation methods are crucial to determining behavioral patterns that have varying consequences for building energy consumption and indoor environment comfort. The questionnaire presented here can be considered as an optimal instrument for the discovery of a layer of social, contextual, and group interaction constructs related to driving forces and individual motivations [15,19,39,40,64,70,[86][87][88][89][90][91][92]. Directly questioning subjects might overcome the constraints of physical sensing techniques in gathering insights of multiple behavior interactions (i.e., the order of actions typically performed by the occupants to restore or bring about comfort conditions).…”

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Synthesizing building physics with social psychology: An interdisciplinary framework for context and occupant behavior in office buildings

D’Oca

Chen

Hong

et al. 2017

Energy Research & Social Science

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This study introduces an interdisciplinary framework for investigating building-user interaction in office spaces. The framework is a synthesis of theories from building physics and social psychology including social cognitive theory, the theory of planned behavior, and the driversneeds-actions-systems ontology for energy-related behaviors. The goal of the research framework is to investigate the effects of various behavioral adaptations and building controls (i.e., adjusting thermostats, operating windows, blinds and shades, and switching on/off artificial lights) to determine impacts on occupant comfort and energy-related operational costs in the office environment. This study attempts to expand state-of-the-art understanding of: (1) the environmental, personal, and behavioral drivers motivating occupants to interact with building control systems across four seasons, (2) how occupants' intention to share controls is influenced by social-psychological variables such as attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control in group negotiation dynamic, (3) the perceived ease of usage and knowledge of building technologies, and (4) perceived satisfaction and productivity. To ground the validation of the theoretical framework in diverse office settings and contexts at the international scale, an online survey was designed to collect cross-country responses from office occupants among 14 universities and research centers within the United States, Europe, China, and Australia.

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Social problems of green buildings: From the humanistic needs to social acceptance

Cited by 184 publications

References 91 publications

Strategies for Promoting Green Building Technologies Adoption in the Construction Industry—An International Study

Strategies for Promoting Green Building Technologies Adoption in the Construction Industry—An International Study

User-focused design factors of workspace for nearly zero energy office renovation: findings from literature review

Synthesizing building physics with social psychology: An interdisciplinary framework for context and occupant behavior in office buildings

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