| Title |
A study on the Professionals Awareness of influential factors on environmentally-friendly apartments by Regional Characteristic |
| Authors |
Yu Soo-Hoon ; Cho Dong-Woo |
| Keywords |
regional characteristics ; environmentally-friendly ; apartments ; influential factors ; urban ; rural |
| Abstract |
This study is to present the characteristics of environmentally-friendly apartments in urban and rural communities. A survey of current literature and professionals show the characteristics of environmentally-friendly apartments differ from rural to urban. The classification system was made and the influential factors were found based on the precedent papers on environmentally- friendly apartments development and environment assessment method at home and abroad in the literature review. The classification used 9 different sectors: land use, transport, ecology, maintenance, material & resource, water, energy, pollution, indoor environment. Within these 9 sectors 60 discrete factors are applied to the apartments according to literature and professionals review. Professionals in urban and rural areas were asked to specify the influential factors, and the results were analyzed based on geographic origin. The priority of environment-friendly factors for the 30 in urban districts and 27 in rural districts used in this study were analyzed. Seventeen factors among are considered to have a notable importance on environment-friendly housing in all areas regardless of regions. |