This preliminary study aims to explore the relationship between sustainable building design paradigms and commercial property depreciation, to assist in the understanding of sustainable building design impact towards commercial building value and rental de employs the qualitative method and analyses and depreciation issues in Malaysia. The findings present evidence that the eleven factors of sustainable building design paradigms are relevant to commercial property depreciation and obsolescence as agreed by the sample as a whole.from one factor to another with sustainable HVAC system, sustainable building status and sustainable building system dominate the top three ranking in this study.This preliminary study aims to explore the relationship between sustainable building design paradigms and commercial property depreciation, to assist in the understanding of sustainable building design impact towards commercial building value and rental depreciation. This study method and analyses valuers' current perception of sustainable design and depreciation issues in Malaysia. The findings present evidence that the eleven factors of sustainable building design paradigms are relevant to commercial property depreciation and obsolescence as agreed by the sample as a whole. Nevertheless, the level of relevancy varied from one factor to another with sustainable HVAC system, sustainable building status and sustainable building system dominate the top three ranking in this study. design and architecture;
This paper explores the green building attributes that significantly influenced rental depreciation for conventional buildings from expert perspectives using Malaysia as a case study. The objectives of this study include: (1) identifying the green building attributes for rental depreciation and (2) prioritizing the green attributes via the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique. To achieve these objectives, firstly the study identified the green building attributes from the literature and from green building guidelines. The attributes were then validated by expert valuers via a semi-structured interview. Secondly, the attributes were utilized to develop the AHP-designed questionnaire and used to gather feedback from real estate experts. Ten (10) responses were analyzed using the descriptive and AHP techniques. This study has identified the rank of prioritized green building attributes, where the findings suggest the central role of indoor environment quality (EQ), where it ranked the highest in contributing to conventional purpose-built office (PBO) rental depreciation, followed by energy efficiency (EE), green site planning and management (SM), materials and resources (MR), innovation (IN), and water efficiency (WE). The findings allow researchers and practitioners to create strategies for reducing the impact of conventional building rental depreciation and obsolescence due to green building attributes.
The current manual registration system applied by the Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam (MBSA), Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS), and local cemetery visitor in searching death information and grave cemetery location are still operated manually. This paper demonstrated the potential of GIS, GPS, Google earth and other ICT technologies in developing a digital Muslim cemetery information system in Section 21, Shah Alam. This proposed system (Islam-21) was developed based on the standard System Development Lifecycle (SDLC); i) to conduct user requirements analysis, ii) to design and develop the system and iii) to test the performance of the system. Although only 57 per cent from 30 respondents strongly agreed the need of the proposed system, the system was essential in fulfilling the user's requirement particularly in giving grave direction and death information. The Islam-21 allowed the user to perform database query for grave or death searching, provided user with map direction of the detailed spatial death information. The future implementation of this innovative prototype might be increased among the people of Malaysia, thus its functions have being enhanced by applying interactive and dynamic web-based 3D database information and visualization for public service improvement.
Since the social housing in Scotland is delivered through the public purse, ideally, the social landlords should allocate their stock efficiently to the right recipients. However, a social landlord may occasionally be subjected to adverse selection situations when applicants withhold certain information during the social housing application. Within the information theory spectrum, adverse selection stems from the belief that humans tend to act opportunistically by putting their self-interest first above others’ interest. While there is ample evidence of vast adaptation of the information theory in different fields and sectors, there is still a remaining gap in the information theory application in understanding the actors’ interaction in the social housing sector. By utilising semi- structured interviews with the housing officers from one case study, ten (10) housing officers from the case study in Aberdeen participated to share their views and experience during the pre-allocation stage. Three (3) broad themes were discovered which consist of withholding information, exploiting the loophole in the system and finally, lack of ways in verifying the information. Data has been analysed through a combination of thematic and content analysis. The thematic analysis primarily aims to establish common themes across settings. The content analysis is employed to support the thematic analysis by conducting a textual investigation and subsequently establishing the frequencies of the event shared by the housing officers. The findings yielded some noteworthy results that signified the matters commonly manipulated by the applicants, leading to adverse selection situations during the pre-allocation stage. It produces critical insights on the issues that the social landlord should thoroughly assess during the pre-allocation stage in improving their allocation practice. Predominantly, helping them to meet the right target recipients in the social housing allocation.
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