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Article: Green Behaviors and Green Buildings: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Public Housing Estates in Hong Kong
Title | Green Behaviors and Green Buildings: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Public Housing Estates in Hong Kong |
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Keywords | green behavior green building certification Hong Kong occupant satisfaction post-occupancy evaluation public housing |
Issue Date | 1-Aug-2022 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Citation | Sustainability, 2022, v. 14, n. 16 How to Cite? |
Abstract | A green building is believed to promote green behaviors from energy-saving to waste recycling. Green building certifications have attracted wide interest, and some were made mandatory for publicly funded developments in cities such as Hong Kong. Policymakers debate whether the city’s expanding public housing stock should be exempted from the green certification mandate for reasons of cost, while evidence of behavioral benefits in green residential buildings is thin, or non-existent for public housing estates. This paper describes a post-occupancy evaluation study on self-reported green behaviors in Hong Kong’s public housing estates. The study subjects are 400 occupants from two pairs of public rental housing estates with or without green certifications. A natural experiment was conducted, in which surveyed occupants were allocated to certified and uncertified estates via a random lottery, without significant differences in socioeconomic characteristics and propensity to green behaviors a priori. The results show that green-certified housing estates partially induced energy-saving behaviors, but not water saving or waste recycling, nor does it enhance satisfaction or green awareness. A certification alone is insufficient to induce behavioral changes, rather, efforts should be invested in conveying the green message, public education, and appropriate fiscal incentives. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/338057 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.672 |
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dc.contributor.author | Khoo, CK | - |
dc.contributor.author | Li, X | - |
dc.contributor.author | Huang, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:25:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:25:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022-08-01 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Sustainability, 2022, v. 14, n. 16 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2071-1050 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/338057 | - |
dc.description.abstract | A green building is believed to promote green behaviors from energy-saving to waste recycling. Green building certifications have attracted wide interest, and some were made mandatory for publicly funded developments in cities such as Hong Kong. Policymakers debate whether the city’s expanding public housing stock should be exempted from the green certification mandate for reasons of cost, while evidence of behavioral benefits in green residential buildings is thin, or non-existent for public housing estates. This paper describes a post-occupancy evaluation study on self-reported green behaviors in Hong Kong’s public housing estates. The study subjects are 400 occupants from two pairs of public rental housing estates with or without green certifications. A natural experiment was conducted, in which surveyed occupants were allocated to certified and uncertified estates via a random lottery, without significant differences in socioeconomic characteristics and propensity to green behaviors a priori. The results show that green-certified housing estates partially induced energy-saving behaviors, but not water saving or waste recycling, nor does it enhance satisfaction or green awareness. A certification alone is insufficient to induce behavioral changes, rather, efforts should be invested in conveying the green message, public education, and appropriate fiscal incentives. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | MDPI | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sustainability | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | green behavior | - |
dc.subject | green building certification | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.subject | occupant satisfaction | - |
dc.subject | post-occupancy evaluation | - |
dc.subject | public housing | - |
dc.title | Green Behaviors and Green Buildings: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Public Housing Estates in Hong Kong | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/su14169862 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85137811408 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 16 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2071-1050 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000845225300001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2071-1050 | - |