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Title: | Green building occupant satisfaction : evidence from the Australian higher education sector | Authors: | Khoshbakht, M Gou, Z Xie, X He, B Darko, A |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | Sustainability, 2018, v. 10, no. 8, 2890, p. 1-21 | Abstract: | Universities spend billions of dollars on green buildings as a sustainability commitment. This research investigates occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality (IEQ), building design (BD), and facilities management (FM) in five highly ranked green higher educational buildings in the subtropical climate of Australia, in comparison to nine non-green counterparts. The results disclose that the green building users were more consistently satisfied than the non-green building users with BD & FM elements, such as design, needs from facilities, building image, cleaning, the availability of meeting rooms, and storage. On the other hand, the study revealed weaknesses of green buildings in IEQ, such as noise, ventilation, and artificial lighting. The individual environmental control positively correlated with satisfaction in non-green buildings, but did not significantly affect satisfaction in green buildings. This study also identified the influences of non-environmental factors on occupant satisfaction, such as gender, age, sitting close to a window, hours spent in the building and in the workstation, and the number of people sharing office space. The research provides evidence and guidance for investing in, designing, and managing green educational facilities. | Keywords: | Building design Facilities management Green building Higher education Indoor environment quality Occupant satisfaction |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | Sustainability | EISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su10082890 | Rights: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Khoshbakht, M., Gou, Z., Xie, X., He, B., & Darko, A. (2018). Green building occupant satisfaction: Evidence from the australian higher education sector. Sustainability (Switzerland), 10(8), 2890, 1-21 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10082890 |
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