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Importance of occupants’ expectations for acceptance of green buildings: a literature review

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dc.contributor.author Mallawaarachchi, BH
dc.contributor.author De silva, ML
dc.contributor.author Rameezdeen, R
dc.contributor.editor Sandanayake, YG
dc.contributor.editor Fernando, NG
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-05T06:34:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-05T06:34:48Z
dc.date.issued 2013-06
dc.identifier.citation Mallawaarachchi , B.H., De silva , M. L., & Rameezdeen , R. (2013 . Importance of occupants’ expectations for acceptance of green buildings: a literature review. In Y.G. Sandanayake & N.G. Fernando (Eds.), Socio-economic sustainability in construction: practice, policy and research (pp. 270-277). Ceylon Institute of Builders. htps://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2013-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17804
dc.description.abstract The buildings, where people live, work, and protect people from nature's extremes, yet they also affect human health and environment in countless ways. The increasing consensus on climate change has resulted in escalating demands on the public to make better environmental choices in building construction. The term ‘green design' has been used fairly consistently over the past decade to emphasize such environmental performance of buildings. Many studies have found that the construction clients are demanding assurance of their buildings' long-term economic and environmental performance and costs. Further, the occupants have been favourably disposed to green buildings from their conventional environments. Moreover, in the early stages of a transition towards sustainability, the priorities placed on environmental issues are subscribed by society as a whole and those implicit in building owner's priorities and expectations. Hence, the modern practice has extended and complemented the conventional building construction process to achieve sustainable or high performance building. Accordingly, key research papers were reviewed in this research paper in order to identify occupants' expectations and its importance for the acceptance of green building. Literature stated that there is more potential to change the existing buildings to be more ‘green', as the quality of built environment is a major expectation of building occupants. Further, most of the occupants expect quality indoor environment with properly controlled and maintained temperature, humidity, noise, lighting and thermal comfort parameters within buildings. It is due to the certainty of reaching their expectations specially to obtain comfortable working environment. Hence, it implies that the occupants' expectations are significance for the acceptance of any green building specially in moving from their typical working environments. The reason is that the poor fit between the built environment and the needs and expectations of the occupants may lead to dissatisfaction, health issues and productivity losses. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ceylon Institute of Builders en_US
dc.relation.uri https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2013-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.subject Building occupants en_US
dc.subject Expectations en_US
dc.subject Green building en_US
dc.subject Indoor environment quality en_US
dc.subject Acceptance en_US
dc.title Importance of occupants’ expectations for acceptance of green buildings: a literature review en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Building Economics en_US
dc.identifier.year 2013 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 2nd World Construction Symposium en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 270-277 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Socio-economic sustainability in construction: practice, policy and research en_US
dc.identifier.email hmallawarachchi@gmail.com en_US
dc.identifier.email lalithds@uom.lk en_US


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