Development of a Management Framework for Energy Efficiency for Sustainability of Hotels in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Using Structural Equation Modelling

Abstract

The paper examined the utilized critical factors that affect hotel building sustainability in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and developed a framework to identify the suitable operational and technical for improving the energy performance of hotel constructions. The mixed methods for collecting energy used data from twenty-four established hotel buildings have been adopted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The survey method was applied in the forms of questionnaires to collect data for the research. The surveying work was carried out on a population of hotel buildings employees with various academic qualification levels and age including engineers, developers, and managers. Structural equation modeling, analysis based on the validation survey, was used to examine the dependencies and interdependencies of the critical factors. The IBM, SPSS 22 and AMOS 23 were used on the basis of maximum likelihood estimates for exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis resulting in validated measurement and structural models. This study utilized seventeen critical factors influencing building energy performance in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The model identified energy performance building indicators; and established causality as standard metrics for building energy efficiency evaluation and benchmark between building energy performance, management policy, operations, and strategic driver. This recognized strong interdependent relations in the template between the four constructs. The stronger results were: strategic drivers on the energy performance model and management policy on strategic drivers highlighting the importance of energy-saving constructs.