Abstract
The aspects in a completed residence or house should able to enhance the quality of a building as well as to provide safety to the occupants. It has become increasingly important to evaluate housing property for many reasons. The attempt to enhance the aspect of safety planning in developing low cost houses is still neglected and one of the reasons that may contribute to this factor is due to the low price value. Hence, this paper emphasizes the application of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) that incorporates participation from the occupants as a tool to assess the safety performance of the Malaysian low-cost housing. The main aim of this study is to develop a framework of POE integrated with safety elements for Malaysian LCH. The inspection survey and occupants' satisfaction survey were carried out to 24 low-cost housing projects located in the federal territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The correlation result revealed that all attributes between the safety performance and the occupants' satisfaction had a significant relationship. This also manifests the occupants’ feedbacks which were fed into the assessment of the housing safety performance.
Highlights
Housing conditions constitute one of the most common quality of life indicators
The safety attributes were similar to the attributes that were listed in the safety performance survey (SPIS)
Previous researchers agreed that statements based on the findings showed that there was a direct link between the building and its users as factors in building performance (Karemera et al, 2003; Khalil & Husin, 2009; Pitt & Tucker, 2008).This confirmed the relevance of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) as the safety performance tool to fit the objectives of this study
Summary
The aspects in a completed residence or house should be able to enhance the quality of a building as well as to provide safety to the occupants; it has become increasingly important to evaluate housing properties for many reasons. As stated by Idrus and Ho (2008), residential and neighbourhood satisfactions are important indicators of housing quality and condition which affect individuals’ quality of life. Under the Malaysian Budget 2016 (Ministry of Finance Malaysia, 2016), it was said that an allocation of RM863 million will go to the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing, and Local Government (KPKT) to continue the initiatives to build 22,300 units of apartments and 9,800 units of terrace houses under the PPR. It needs to be set forth that poor quality of a building is much allied to the safety failures of
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