IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES (AFFORDABLE) IN THE HOUSING INDUSTRY

Authors

  • Raman Mariyappan School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia Author
  • Suria Musa School of Technology Management and Logistics, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia Author
  • Salman Riazi Mehdi Riazi School of Housing, Building, and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Author
  • Irwan Mohammad Ali Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Perak, Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia Author
  • Aizul Nahar Harun Department of Management of Technology, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Author
  • Anas A. Salameh Department of Management Information System, College of Business Administration, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, 165 Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. Author

Keywords:

sustainable development practices, housing industry, affordable

Abstract

“The implementation of sustainable development practices (affordable) is indeed a must in the housing industry in Malaysia in general. Sustainable development practices promotes positive activities that will ensure fairness, effectiveness, divergence, less disparity, less discrimination, inexpensive, reasonable priced, pleasant design, serenity, mutual comfort and many other characteristics to the future house buyers. The developer and house buyers must converge at a point where no one is short changed due to limitation in the implementation mechanism of sustainable development practices in the housing industry. So, the housing industry needs to rectify and address the pressing issues related sustainable development. The objectives of the study are to investigate the relationships between inequalities, affordable and comfortable and implementation of sustainable development practices in the housing industry. This study adopted quantitative methods. The quantitative survey method, as the dominant approach, was used to collect data using convenience sampling from 384 respondents living in the District of Kubang Pasu, Kedah, Malaysia. Pearson correlations were used in analysing the data to answer all the objectives. In general, the findings showed that the score for inequalities, affordable and comfortable in the sustainable development practices and implementation in the housing industry area good with an average value between 4.02 and 4.26. The results of Pearson correlation analysis show implementation of sustainable development practices that is also significant at level p≤0.01 and r = 0.143”.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Bartlett, E. and N. Howard, Informing the decision makers on the cost and value of green building. Building Research & Information, 2000. 28(5-6): p. 315-324 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/096132100418474.

Nelson, T.R. and J. Rabianski, Consumer preferences in housing market analysis: An application of multidimensional scaling techniques. Real Estate Economics, 1988. 16(2): p. 138-159 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1540- 6229.00451.

Ofori, G., et al., Impact of ISO 14000 on construction enterprises in Singapore. Construction Management & Economics, 2000. 18(8): p. 935-947 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/014461900446894.

Srour, I.M., K.M. Kockelman, and T.P. Dunn, Accessibility indices: Connection to residential land prices and location choices. Transportation Research Record, 2002. 1805(1): p. 25-34 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3141/1805- 04.

Hydes, K.R. and L. Creech, Reducing mechanical equipment cost: the economics of green design. Building Research & Information, 2000. 28(5-6): p. 403-407.

Heerwagen, J., Green buildings, organizational success and occupant productivity. Building Research & Information, 2000. 28(5-6): p. 353-367 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/096132100418500.

Bamgbade, J.A., et al., Building sustainability in the construction industry through firm capabilities, technology and business innovativeness: empirical evidence from Malaysia. International journal of construction management, 2019: p. 1-16 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2019.1634666.

Baumgartner, R.J., Critical perspectives of sustainable development research and practice. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2011. 19(8): p. 783-786 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.01.005.

Adair, A., et al., House prices and accessibility: The testing of relationships within the Belfast urban area. Housing studies, 2000. 15(5): p. 699-716 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030050134565.

Alkay, E. and C. Watkins, Investigating the Impact of Planning on Housing Construction Sector Development in Turkey. 2016, European Real Estate Society (ERES).

Wittowsky, D., et al., Residential housing prices: impact of housing characteristics, accessibility and neighbouring apartments–a case study of Dortmund, Germany. Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2020. 8(1): p. 44-70 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2019.1704429.

Źróbek, S., et al., The influence of environmental factors on property buyers’ choice of residential location in Poland. Journal of International Studies, 2015. 7(3): p. 163-173.

Mariyappan, R., Level of Sustainable Green Practices at Pantai 2 Sewage Treatment Plant, Klang Valley, Malaysia. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 2019. 8(5): p.337-337 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2019.v8n5p337.

Mohammed, J.K. and A.O. Sulyman. Conventional Approaches and Mechanism to Housing Market Analysis.

Grover, R., S. Emmitt, and A. Copping, Trends in sustainable architectural design in the United Kingdom: A Delphi study. Sustainable Development, 2020. 28(4): p. 880-896 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2043.

Abidin, N.Z. and C.L. Pasquire, Delivering sustainability through value management: Concept and performance overview. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2005.

Downloads

Published

2021-10-30

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 5 (2021): Central Asia and the Caucasus

Section

ENVIRONMENT

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Author

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are free to:

  1. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
  2. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  3. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

  1. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  2. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation .
No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

How to Cite

Mariyappan, R., Musa, S., Riazi, S. R. M., Ali, I. M., Harun, A. N., & Salameh, A. A. (2021). IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES (AFFORDABLE) IN THE HOUSING INDUSTRY. CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS, 22(5), 501-508. https://ca-c.org/CAC/index.php/cac/article/view/856

Plaudit

Similar Articles

1-10 of 683

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.