Environmental and economic benefits of applying green building concepts in Kuwait

Alsulaili, Abdalrahman; Al-Matrouk, Marwa F.; Al-Baghli, Rabab A.; Al-Enezi, Amal

doi:10.1007/s10668-019-00352-1

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“…While there is a literature on the economic and environmental benefits of applying green building concepts in Kuwait [2] or on the implication of work environment on job satisfaction [3] there hardly exists research data on the office layout in Kuwait, hence we decided to address this gap and analyse not only how the office layout was before the COVID-19 pandemic, but also how it will look like in the post-pandemic time.…”

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Offices after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Perception of Flexible Office Space

Baráth¹,

Schmidt²

2022

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The pandemic is fast moving, accelerating rapid changes that lead to new challenges and making organizations suffer an impact. A big mark has been left on the workplaces - places where we do business, because an ongoing change to remote work challenges the role of the office. It is highly possible that as the change is progressing, it is not only the workplace that will change its design, but also the way in which work will be planned, organized, done and controlled. However, as the restrictions ease up questions appear: What is the potential of office sustainability? How has the perception of flexible office space changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? This paper used an online survey as a quantitative research method. In this paper, we looked at the employer’s vision of the office. We investigated employers’ perspectives of where and in what settings the work will be done in the post-pandemic time. Specifically, we discussed the changes employers will apply in terms of work environment and office layout. The findings suggest that an increasing mobile workforce and expansion of the new workstyle will not mean an office exodus, but will certainly have an impact on office utilization.

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confidence: 99%

Offices after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Perception of Flexible Office Space

Baráth¹,

Schmidt²

2022

Preprint

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“…Owner satisfaction refers to the subjective feelings generated by buyers in the process of using the house, which reflects the degree of satisfaction of the residents with the building. The concept of green building reflects the idea of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and is an important reference factor for buyers [28,29]. By referring to the literature research in the operation and maintenance stage, four representative benefit evaluation indicators were selected in the operation and maintenance stage.…”

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Benefit Evaluation Model of Prefabricated Buildings in Seasonally Frozen Regions

Zhao

Fediuk

et al. 2021

Energies

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In order to effectively develop the benefit evaluation model of prefabricated houses in seasonal frozen soil areas, and improve the comprehensive benefits of prefabricated buildings, this paper proposes a life cycle benefit evaluation model for prefabricated buildings in seasonally frozen regions. According to the climatic characteristics of the area, the impact of the seasonally frozen regions is listed as an evaluation index in the construction stage for comprehensive analysis. The 16 indicators that affect the comprehensive benefits of prefabricated buildings are grouped by the nearest neighbor element analysis method. Fuzzy cluster analysis and analytic hierarchy process are used to filter out the most influential index group to calculate the index weight. Then the model proposed in this paper is compared with the existing model to test the validity of the model. The research results show that research and development costs weight is 0.23, design cost weight is 0.10, construction cost weight is 0.22, resource consumption weight is 0.25, building demolition cost weight is 0.04, and seasonal freezing effect weight is 0.16. The calculation result passed the consistency test and the expert scoring result conformed to the normal distribution, which proved the accuracy of the conclusion. It is proposed that the calculation result of the comprehensive benefit score of the model is 1.8% lower than the previous results, which proves the validity of the model. The model can speed up the efficiency of comprehensive benefit evaluation of prefabricated buildings thereby improving the development level of prefabricated buildings.

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“…They are even willing to pay more when buying green products in comparison to alternative ones. Several studies discuss these issues relating to different industries and types of green products, for example to organic food, (Katt and Meixner, 2020;Ricci et al, 2018), green energy, (Hartmann and Apaolaza-Ibáñez, 2012;Sangroya and Nayak, 2017), green automotive (Chowdhury et al, 2016;Jaderná and Přikrylová, 2018), green cosmetics (Liobikienė and Bernatonienė, 2017), green building (Alsulaili et al, 2020;Zuo and Zhao, 2014) and others. There are also different studies about consumers' behaviours and attitudes towards green products in the textile and apparel industry referring to clothing made from eco-friendly fibre or recycled materials (Fletcher, 2012;Perry and Chung, 2016) and eco-fashion (Jin Gam, 2011;Niinimäki, 2010;Park, 2012).…”

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Consumers’ Choice Behaviour Toward Green Clothing

Bielawska¹,

Grębosz-Krawczyk²

2021

ERSJ

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Purpose:The article aims to identify the factors influencing consumers' choice of green clothing products in the context of the theory of consumption values. Design/methodology/approach: The research was conducted on 496 Polish consumers in December 2020 from who 212 had experience in purchasing green clothing products. Selfadministered questionnaires were distributed and structural equation modelling was used for analysis. Findings: The results show that emotional, conditional, and environmental values had significantly positive impact on consumers' choice behaviour toward green clothing products; however functional, social and epistemic values had no influence on it. Practical Implications: The results are important for retailers and producers of green clothing products for building a marketing communication campaign for Polish market as well as labelling and creating eco-brands for those products. Originality/value: The recognition of Polish consumers' incentives of buying green clothing through the lens of consumption values theory.

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Environmental and economic benefits of applying green building concepts in Kuwait

Cited by 25 publications

References 15 publications

Offices after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Perception of Flexible Office Space

Offices after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Perception of Flexible Office Space

Benefit Evaluation Model of Prefabricated Buildings in Seasonally Frozen Regions

Consumers’ Choice Behaviour Toward Green Clothing

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