Analysis of State-Wide Green Building Policies

Motivating Project Owners to Increase Their Commitment towards Improving the Delivery Performance of Green Building Projects

“…Thus the incentive for owners and the private sector is the logic of not breaking the law, or being punished as the case may be. In addition, this category of green building incentive has a much higher likelihood of being successful in the implementation phase, due to the broader level of sustained support it must achieve in order to be issued in the first place (DuBose, et al, 2007). In many cases, the requirements of the rating systems form the legislated conditions to be met by owners and the private sectors (Shapiro, 2011).…”

“…These follow executive orders by the head of a legal jurisdiction, however are less permanent, since they can be rescinded, superseded or de-emphasized by subsequent heads (DuBose, et al, 2007). It is a soft law, which is a quasi-regulatory action by a government that state intentions of the participants or create normative goals but generally lack enforcement mechanisms (Cotten, 2012).…”

“…Commercial Building Disclosure Act 2010) or an executive order (e.g. Solar credits) (Choi, 2009b;DuBose, et al, 2007). The demonstration projects are cynosure green building projects carried out by the government to showcase the techniques, methods, technologies, processes and approaches involved in the delivery and occupation of green building projects to project owners.…”

“…In essence, this is an executive directive, which promotes green building practices by enforcing punitive measures for unsustainable practices, or exempting punitive measures for sustainable practices (DuBose, et al, 2007;.…”

“…They are a set of green building-related laws on minimum allowable performance and/or acceptable solutions that follow from the process of legislation by the legislature of a jurisdiction (DuBose, Bosch, & Pearce, 2007;Wang, Toppinen, & Juslin, 2014). Being a legislated approach, it is considerably more permanent and less easily affected by changes in administration (DuBose, et al, 2007). It is typically more difficult to put in place, since it must receive majority support and is subjected to more scrutiny from lobbying groups; it also has teeth to encourage compliance, since failure to comply is actually breaking the law (Choi, 2010a).…”