A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Green Building Design as If People Mattered
Sustainability and energy efficiency are crucial to many sectors and all stakeholders at local, municipal, national, and global scales. According to the city of Vancouver, buildings contribute more than 50 percent of the city’s total GHG emissions. With the introduction of standards such as LEED the hope has been significant reductions in the footprint; however, change has been much lower than predicted. Much of this can be attributed to how people actually use the buildings they inhabit. Preliminary results of semi-structured interviews with residents of a Vancouver multi-residential LEED Gold building show lack of feedback the most common barrier among inhabitants who intend to save energy. Lack of appropriate affordances and constraints follow respectively.
Green Building Design as If People Mattered
Sustainability and energy efficiency are crucial to many sectors and all stakeholders at local, municipal, national, and global scales. According to the city of Vancouver, buildings contribute more than 50 percent of the city’s total GHG emissions. With the introduction of standards such as LEED the hope has been significant reductions in the footprint; however, change has been much lower than predicted. Much of this can be attributed to how people actually use the buildings they inhabit. Preliminary results of semi-structured interviews with residents of a Vancouver multi-residential LEED Gold building show lack of feedback the most common barrier among inhabitants who intend to save energy. Lack of appropriate affordances and constraints follow respectively.
Green Building Design as If People Mattered
Kashani, Maryam H. (author) / Bartram, Lyn (author) / Woodbury, Robert (author)
First International Symposium on Sustainable Human–Building Ecosystems ; 2015 ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sustainable Human–Building Ecosystems ; 176-184
2015-10-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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