What Makes a Greener Building? Lessons from Taiwan

Wu, Chou-Yen; Lo, Shih-Fang

doi:10.4236/jep.2018.99060

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“…Furthermore, various regions have diverse biodiversity, construction and cultural influences. This reflects the different scope and in response, for example, Taiwan had developed the Ecology, Energy Saving, Waste Reduction and Health accreditation system for subtropical nations (Wu and Lo, 2018). In Taiwan, the Ecology, Energy Saving, Waste Reduction and Health was published in 1999 and it became the first Asian green building certification system.…”

Section: Overview Of Green Practices and Initiatives In Hotel Operationsmentioning

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A review of green practices and initiatives from stakeholder’s perspectives towards sustainable hotel operations and performance impact

Khalil

Abdullah²,

Haron³

et al. 2022

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Purpose The survival of hotel business in maintaining market competitiveness depends on the constant improvement of the quality of hotel facilities and services. The key to sustain hotel business is lean on the adaptability of the hotel management team towards current lifestyle trends and its surrounding context in fulfilling customer satisfaction. Because of hotel operating service complexity, the hotel contributes a higher impact on environmental degradation in performing their daily activities. Therefore, hoteliers need to determine sustainable strategies to minimize environmental impact and at the same time be able to provide satisfaction to their customers. However, green initiatives require a proactive action by the organizational management engaging both employees and guests in the environmental management process. Thus, this paper aims to review the concept of green practices, the implementation of green practices from the stakeholders’ perspectives (manager, employee and customers) in the hotel industry, the performance impact from the green practices on the sustainability pillars and to further develop a conceptual green practice to sustainable hotel operations and performance impact. Design/methodology/approach This paper identified relevant empirical research that published in the recent 10 years from January 2012 to December 2021. The articles are searched through reputable databases such as Emerald, Elsevier and Taylor and Francis. The obtained data were screened preliminarily from 108 research papers. The post-screening process has finalized a total of 57 articles as the findings for this paper, where the themes were delineated to the attributes that need to implemented by the stakeholder in hotels industry, that is, manager’s perspectives, employee’s perspectives and customer’s perspectives. Findings The findings of this paper revealed that there are 27 attributes of green practices and initiatives for sustainable hotel operations from the manager perspectives (10 attributes – Green Marketing Strategy, Green Managerial Attitude, Eco-Innovation Investment, Marketing and Sustainability, Environmental Management Strategy, Green Supply Chain, Green Managerial Awareness, Green Procurement, Green Human Resources and Green Technology), employee perspectives (5 attributes – Employee Green Awareness, Employee Green Training and Educating, Employee Environmental Behaviour, Employee Green Performance and Employee Green Reward) and customer’s perspectives (12 attributes – Customer Perception, Customer Loyalty, Customer Awareness, Customer Behaviour, Customer Trust, Green Supply Chain, Green Value, Green Marketing Strategy, Customer Perceived Value, Service Quality, Brand Image and Hotel Design). All of the attributes are aligned to the performance effectiveness as the major concern in the hotel’s operations and impacted towards the sustainability pillars, environmental performance, economic performance and social performance. Sustainable practice in organization benefits the owners towards sustainable economic, environmental, socio-cultural and legal policy. Originality/value This review paper provides key elements of current green practices and sustainable initiatives for the hotel’s operations, as proactive measures. The novelty of the findings is to be able to convey valuable inputs to the relevant stakeholders (hotel’s owner, consultants, designers, maintenance officers, hoteliers, staffs, customers and end-users) in perceiving the elements of green practices into the preliminary planning of the hotel’s design. The review also helps to identify practices and measures to the performance impact to the hotel’s operations.

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Section: Overview Of Green Practices and Initiatives In Hotel Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of green practices and initiatives from stakeholder’s perspectives towards sustainable hotel operations and performance impact

Khalil

Abdullah²,

Haron³

et al. 2022

JFM

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“…Wu and Lo [32] Encourages incentives for buildings owned by the individual, private corporations or components of large scale projects to get a higher degree of EEWH certification.…”

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“…Referring to several green building assessment systems and the literature reviewed [7,10,25,27,30,32,33,35,36], we discussed with experts how to build an amended green building rating system that takes into consideration Taiwan's special environment. Specifically, nine experts were invited to answer the assessment survey, including two architects with 20 years' experience in this industry, a building structure designer, also with 21 years' experience, two doctororal research fellows in the field of green building research, three senior managers who have been in charge of green building management or operations for more than 15 years, and an official who is in charge of forest conservation and ecology serving in the central government of Taiwan.…”

Section: The Proposed Green Building Rating Frameworkmentioning

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A Combination of DEMATEL and BWM-Based ANP Methods for Exploring the Green Building Rating System in Taiwan

Liu

Liou

2020

Sustainability

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Green buildings are a crucial environmentally friendly component for sustainable human habitation and for the preservation of a healthy ecosystem. This study proposes a novel hybrid model to explore the influential relationship of various indicators and their importance for a green building evaluation system. First, a green building index system is established based on a review of recent literature on green building evaluation systems. Then, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique is utilized to determine the influential relationship among the criteria. Finally, a novel best worst method (BWM)-based analytic network process (ANP) model is applied to determine the influential weight of the criteria. The result indicated that the top five ranked criteria are all classified within the two dimensions of waste reduction and energy saving. An empirical case study of an example in Taiwan is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. Management implications are also provided.

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“…The Taipei City Government plans to redevelop the Minsheng community. However, the old building consumes a considerable amount of energy [36][37][38]. For example, this was shown in our previous research presented to The Library of Institute of European and American Studies of Academia Sinica (IEAS) in Taipei, Taiwan [36].…”

Section: Minsheng Community's Tus (Time Use Survey)mentioning

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Do Energy Conservation Strategies Limit the Freedom of Architecture Design? A Case Study of Minsheng Community, Taipei, Taiwan

Sari

Chiou

2019

Sustainability

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The residential sector is one of the largest energy-consuming sectors in Taiwan. Taiwan applies building codes and appliance standards to reduce the total energy demand for buildings, especially for façade design. Some research studies demonstrate that design decisions regarding the envelope shape have a direct effect on a building’s energy performance. This paper presents a comparative study of four façade design strategies for low-rise residential buildings by combining energy performance and architectural creativity. The research aims to provide insights for Taiwan’s building designers and energy policymakers and to provide an overview of façade standards for residential buildings in urban areas that is not only innovative in design but also has an energy-saving potential. The approach used in this research combined the overhang and side fin shading design with an open plan, which allows for optimum daylight exposure across all spaces in order to reduce energy consumption.

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What Makes a Greener Building? Lessons from Taiwan

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

A review of green practices and initiatives from stakeholder’s perspectives towards sustainable hotel operations and performance impact

A review of green practices and initiatives from stakeholder’s perspectives towards sustainable hotel operations and performance impact

A Combination of DEMATEL and BWM-Based ANP Methods for Exploring the Green Building Rating System in Taiwan

Do Energy Conservation Strategies Limit the Freedom of Architecture Design? A Case Study of Minsheng Community, Taipei, Taiwan

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