Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a green office project in Thailand, that is consistent with sustainable development goals (SDGs), to analyze and present the result of the study of the environmental, economic, and social impact of green office, and to evaluate satisfaction in the green office project operation. Evaluated the operating steps of green office projects, using new green office evaluation criteria, under Department of Environmental Quality Promotion (DEQP), by collecting preliminary data through questionnaires from 73 agencies, by monitoring and analyzing the project operation of participating organizations to certify as green office standard during 2015 to 2017. Besides, qualitative data were collected through the in-depth interview from 25 representative agencies, selected on the criteria of readiness to provide information and to evaluate their satisfaction in the green office project’s operation. The value of the green office project was 299 million Baht for all participant organizations equal to 1.4 million Baht/office/year. And this could be divided into economic compensation, (262.5 million Baht), social compensation (28.5 million Baht), and environmental compensation (7.55 million Baht). Evaluation of satisfaction found that most agencies (79.45%) have high satisfaction to certification on the evaluation result of national auditors, benefit on staffs’ knowledge, understanding, and observation of the importance of green office operation (86.63%), and the advantage of green office operation in their office (90.41%). The study further suggests that green office projects should be supported as a national policy to all agencies for continuous enhancement or development of the standard, to be an international level according to sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Highlights
In the recent decades, there has been a growing awareness and concern about global climate change, both developed as well as developing countries (Burch, 2009) According to a recent report, published in the Newspaper of Thailand in 2019, Bangkok’s air pollution has reached harmful levels to health, found presence of hazardous substances along with toxic smog up to three times the acceptable standard in some areas (Bangkok Post, 2019)
The study further suggests that green office projects should be supported as a national policy to all agencies for continuous enhancement or development of the standard, to be an international level according to sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Results of green office project operations were divided into impacts and those impacts were converted into value as an improvement comment for compensation of the project with financial proxy (Table 5)
Summary
There has been a growing awareness and concern about global climate change, both developed as well as developing countries (Burch, 2009) According to a recent report, published in the Newspaper of Thailand in 2019, Bangkok’s air pollution has reached harmful levels to health, found presence of hazardous substances along with toxic smog up to three times the acceptable standard in some areas (Bangkok Post, 2019). This global climate change and its effect arise from human development activities and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. The most commonly accepted one is the definition of Brundtland Report
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