Identifying the house buyer needs and product concepts for the mass development of green home in Malaysia.
Green building is defined as a whole systems approach to the design, construction and operation of buildings – from the early stages of development through the final finishes in the home. The concept of green home is the convergence of three fundamental objectives, namely, the conservation of nat...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/34487/ http://eprints.usm.my/34487/1/HBP2.pdf |
| Summary: | Green building is defined as a whole systems approach to the design, construction and
operation of buildings – from the early stages of development through the final finishes in the home.
The concept of green home is the convergence of three fundamental objectives, namely, the
conservation of natural resources, the improvement in energy efficiency, and better indoor air quality.
For green buildings to be more comfortable and satisfying than conventional buildings there must be
some features that are unique, or at least more common, to their design that could contribute to a
better indoor environmental quality. In Malaysia, there had been little effort to mass-develop green
homes so that these houses can be bought easily by the house buyers. Because of this scenario, a
marketing research focusing on reducing the uncertainty associated with any new product such as
these green homes, need to be carried out before any property developer will want to build these
houses, and consequently, for these houses to be accepted by the house buyers. To ensure continued
growth in the adoption of green building technologies, it is important to ensure that customer needs are
being addressed. Despite the good examples shown by the other developed countries on how to build
houses sustainably, Malaysia are relatively behind so far in this aspect. This, despite the fact that, the
technology to build sustainable house are there for the Malaysian developers and construction
professionals to harness. This paper attempts to put into effect a marketing research that looks into the
possibility of mass-developing green homes in Malaysia. We will only look into the house buyers’ green
homes needs, and then, the right concepts for the homes. Hence, both sides in the market will be
studied: the providers (consist of property developers, contractors, and construction consultants) and
the house buyers. |
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