Abstract
Motivators can be defined as specific catalysts that drive people to act in a certain way. These motivators are important for promoting green buildings and have a clear impact on decision-makers to adopt and implement the green building concept in architectural practice. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review to identify the important motivators for the adoption of green buildings among the stakeholders of the construction industry, the categorization and efficiency of green building motivators, and also the strategies for green building motivators. By reviewing 32 relevant studies conducted in different countries from 2008 to 2017, a total of 26 factors were identified as the main motivators to promote green buildings. These green building motivators were categorized into environmental, economic, and social motivators. With regard to efficiency, it was found that all green building motivators, whether environmental, economic or social are important for promoting green buildings and to determine a priority among these categories was not possible. The strategies for the adoption of green building motivators were also found. It is notable that the government has the greatest role to motivate stakeholders to adopt and implement the green building concept.The literature review of this study has a wide scope, covering most of the countries in the world, including developed and developing countries from the West to East. Hence, unlike most studies on the main issue of this paper that focus on a specific country or region, this in-depth research led to the development of a list of motivators for green buildings, derived from an extensive range of nations, which vary from environmental, economic, and social aspects.This paper is expected to provide valuable information for decision-makers in the construction industry, namely, governmental authorities, design teams, and owners of projects regarding what motivate people to help further promote green buildings. The findings may also be useful for researchers to pursue further analyses on similar topics.
Highlights
The performance of building projects is measured based on cost, time, and quality
This paper presents a comprehensive literature review to identify the important motivators for the adoption of green buildings among the stakeholders of the construction industry, the categorization and efficiency of green building motivators, and the strategies for green building motivators
This paper provides a systematic review of the literature to identify; what the important motivators for the adoption of green buildings among construction stakeholders are; how literature categorized these motivators; what the efficiency of these green building motivators are; and what the strategies which are taken into account in literature as to green building motivators are, in order to provide valuable information for decision-makers in the construction industry, namely, governments, design teams, and owners of projects regarding what motivate people to help further promote green buildings
Summary
The performance of building projects is measured based on cost, time, and quality. Because of the climate change, global warming and lack of resources, the environmental issue has become a major concern in the construction industry (Dixon, McNamara, & Newell, 2008). Sustainable projects take economic, environmental, and social factors into consideration. The environmental factor becomes more important among the three factors of sustainability (Shi, 2009). As the buildings have significant impacts on the environment; it has become necessary to give more attention to the environmental performance in building design (Kerr, 2008). Buildings are accountable for about 40% of resource consumption, 30% of global energy consumption, and 40% of the global waste generation Buildings are responsible for more than 40% of global carbon dioxide emissions (Yudelson, 2013)
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