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Estimated marginal means responses to each of the five groups at the pre-visit stage in relation to the seven measures: the three ECs, the three ACs, and NEP.
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This article explores the relevance of the demonstration project as a strategy for inspiring contemporary building practice in a process towards sustainable building and as a tool for influencing environmental values in the community. The Log Cabin Project in Napier, New Zealand, is a demonstration facility for displaying sustainable building and l...
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... the Mean (M) for the participant groups pre-visit against the seven measures, itemised with the associated Standard Error (SE) (Figure 4), revealed that in relation to egoistic measures of both EC and AC, EIT Students had the highest average means in ECs (M = 5.65, SE = 0.19) and VAD students the highest in AC (M = 5.93, SE = 0.10), while at the lower end of the EC measure the four groups were close, with VAD students the lowest by a small margin (M = 5.51, SE = 0.16) and EIT Trades having the lowest AC measure (M = 5.11, SE = 0.23). In order to find out the highest means, and hence the most pro-environment visitor group, means of the seven measures for each of the five groups were averaged. ...
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... the Mean (M) for the participant groups pre-visit against the seven measures, itemised with the associated Standard Error (SE) (Figure 4), revealed that in relation to egoistic measures of both EC and AC, EIT Students had the highest average means in ECs (M = 5.65, SE = 0.19) and VAD students the highest in AC (M = 5.93, SE = 0.10), while at the lower end of the EC measure the four groups were close, with VAD students the lowest by a small margin (M = 5.51, SE = 0.16) and EIT Trades having the lowest AC measure (M = 5.11, SE = 0.23). In order to find out the highest means, and hence the most pro-environment visitor group, means of the seven measures for each of the five groups were averaged. ...
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... The design of the LC to meet its ZEB target has been described in detail elsewhere (Bahho & Vale, 2020). Figure 1 shows the building before renovation. ...
... A group of six out of a possible 13 students chose to engage in designing the renovation as part of their bachelor of design studies. The other students opted to work on other projects for various reasons (Bahho & Vale, 2020). ...
Renovation projects are complex and multi-layered as they often deal with architectural, cultural, and social values, as well as aspects of energy efficiency and finance. This article discusses the impact that engaging in a sustainable retrofit had on the environmental values of those involved. The project was the renovation of an existing log cabin structure located on the Ōtātara heritage site at the Eastern Institute of Technology campus, New Zealand. The aim was to make the existing structure as near-zero energy as possible, so it would act as a demonstration facility for sustainable building and living practices and inspire the local community to adopt pro-environmental practices. The completed project is being used by the Eastern Institute of Technology as home to a nature-based education facility where the cultural and creative connections to land, sustainable use of resources, restoration of ecology, and biodiversity management are communicated. The article explains why people chose to be involved with the various stages of renovating and using a sustainable building and their attitudes towards behaving sustainably. The research approach is explorative, making use of qualitative data analysis methods. The study argues that getting involved in a sustainable building can potentially change the values of people through active, systemic, and successive learning, both in the building and operation phases. The key finding shows that involvement only increased as the project gained momentum as people could see that taking part would produce something tangible.
... It is believed that they have the ability to implement the ECP better. Meanwhile, state-owned enterprises are encouraged to set good examples in adopting ECP and impart compliance experience to other Chinese ICCs in the host country, helping overcome the worries about implementing the ECP [70]. In particular, all five practitioners acknowledge that this solution would be applicable in China. ...
Unethical behavior is one of the grand challenges facing international construction companies (ICCs) to move toward sustainable development when operating on an international basis. The ethics and compliance program (ECP) has played a significant role in addressing illegal and unethical behavior and avoiding liability in multinational companies. However, there have been few studies on the current status, major barriers, and best solutions to ECP adoption in ICCs. To fill this gap, an international questionnaire was conducted; 87 valid samples of Chinese ICCs located in 44 countries were filtered out for in-depth analysis. The survey results showed that only 36.8% of responding ICCs exercised compliance functions through the compliance department. The top five recognized barriers hampering ECP adoption were “lack of related laws and regulations”, “insufficient support from the government”, “lack of authorization to the compliance department”, “shortage of compliance professionals”, and “lack of case studies”. There was no disagreement about the barriers’ rankings among organizations of different firm ownerships, sizes, and locations, except the variable “great institutional distance”. Results also revealed the top five best solutions to help ICCs overcome the identified barriers. The findings would enhance the understanding of industry practitioners and policymakers, hence helping them address corresponding solutions to boost ECP adoption and promote the sustainable development of ICCs.
... There are a lot of research scholars and participants realize that the sustainable development goals of cities should be embedded into the concept of resilience [12][13][14][15]. Hence, exploring the performance of the communities, which are the essential unit of the cities, after disasters and measuring Buildings 2021, 11, 523 2 of 24 the capability of the communities when adapting to the disasters is vitally significant and imperative [16][17][18]. Achieving resilient cities and communities will benefit the sustainable development of the cities in the aspects of society, economy, and environment [19,20]. ...
Natural hazards bring significant influences on and socioeconomic loss to cities and communities. Historic events show that fire following earthquake (FFE) is the most influential uncertain disturbance on the urban infrastructure system. Under the FFE scenario, the concept of resilience is widely implemented to make up the shortcomings derived from the traditional disaster management methodology. Resilient cities and communities are required to improve the systemic performance in responding to the FFE. To fulfill these goals, measuring community resilience is an essential work for municipal policy makers. Therefore, this study conducted a comprehensive assessment on community resilience adapted to the FFE scenario. The systematic literature review (SLR) was employed to identify the indicators, and the analytic network process (ANP) technique was implemented to determine their weights. 20 indicators were extracted, and 4 communities that encountered FFE in China were selected for the empirical analysis. Thereafter, the preference ranking organization method for enriched evaluation (PROMETHEE) II technique was selected through using the multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods selection framework to fulfill the comprehensive assessment. The results were discussed and demonstrated with graphical analysis for interactive aid (GAIA) technique. The findings revealed that the G Community won the highest score and had the strongest performance. However, H Community had the lowest score and the weakest performance. The proposed comprehensive methods could benefit the decision-makers and the policy executors achieving the community resilience adapted to the FFE scenario by improving the effective indicators.
