Green occupants for green buildings: The missing link?

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• 作者：Max Paul Deuble^a ; ^{max.deuble@students.mq.edu.au} ; Richard John de Dear^b
• 关键词：Green buildings ; Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) ; Forgiveness factor ; New Ecological Paradigm (NEP)
• 刊名：Building and Environment
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：21_03601323
• 类别：et
• 出版时间：October, 2012
• 卷：56
• 期：Complete
• 页码：21-27
• 文件大小：647 K

摘要

Green buildings, often defined as those featuring natural ventilation capabilities, i.e. low-energy or free-running buildings, are now at the forefront of building research and climate change mitigation scenarios. This paper follows the results of recent post-occupancy evaluation (POE) surveys within two academic office buildings located in sub-tropical Sydney, Australia. Supplemented with an environmental attitudes questionnaire, based upon the New Ecological Paradigm [1]), it was found that occupant satisfaction levels on the POE were positively associated with environmental beliefs. Occupants with higher levels of environmental concern were more forgiving of their building, particularly those featuring aspects of green design, such as natural ventilation through operable windows. Despite their criticisms of the building鈥檚 indoor environmental quality, the 鈥榞reen鈥?occupants were prepared to overlook and forgive less-than-ideal conditions more so than their 鈥榖rown鈥?(non-green) counterparts. These results support the hypothesis that pro-environmental attitudes are closely associated with the stronger 鈥榝orgiveness factor鈥?often observed in green buildings, but the question of causality remains moot.