Occupants’ perceptions and expectations of a green office building: a longitudinal case study

Autor:	Steve Sharples, Ida G. Monfared
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Engineering Longitudinal study Architectural engineering business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Affect (psychology) BREEAM Perception Architecture Sustainability Government Office Disengagement theory business media_common
Zdroj:	Architectural Science Review. 54:344-355
ISSN:	1758-9622 0003-8628
DOI:	10.1080/00038628.2011.613636
Popis:	Sustainability as a concept can become devalued if occupants’ engagements with a building are not satisfactory. This article investigated how occupants’ attitudes towards a building's ‘green’ identity interacted with the building's performance and the occupants’ overall satisfaction of the building. The research is based on a longitudinal study of nearly 2000 staff working in two UK Government office buildings that had received BREEAM ‘Excellent’ ratings. The research programme involved interviews and repeated surveys over a 2-year period. The results indicate how the gap between occupants’ expectations and their perceptions of a green building can affect their satisfaction with the building. Furthermore, it is shown that occupants’ disengagement with the building's green identity can also, eventually, impact on the building's sustainable performance.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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