Abstract
Following the recent global climate changes, many countries, including developed nations, are announcing greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets and are actively participating in reducing GHG. Therefore, the role of the building sector on reducing GHG is being emphasized, and the establishment of policy structures for both making environmentally friendly capacity compulsory and improving the housing quality is being demanded. South Korea is also developing a policy for improving housing quality, but in order to achieve more competitive growth, this must be preceded by an analysis of current policy status within various countries on improving housing quality. This study aims to suggest direction about policies that will improve the housing quality in South Korea. For this, the policies of major countries were able to categorize and compare according to three major categories (performance, function, and aesthetics), and seven factors (safety, durability, cost and maintenance, response to residents’ needs, habitability, energy saving, and building design) regarding housing quality. As a result, from the performance aspect, policy directions were suggested for safe housing, the urban environment, regeneration of quality stock, and the usage of existing stock; from the functional aspect, policies for improving housing quality that responds to the aging population and energy saving housing were suggested; from the aesthetic aspect, housing designs that consider the urban environment were suggested.
Highlights
As global energy use in buildings is sharply increasing, there is rising demand for environmentally friendly performance in buildings as well as contribution to the maintenance and promotion of occupants’ health
Regarding policies for improving habitability under function, there was the Safe Interior Material Certification System and Standard Value mark. These were similar to South Korea’s Healthy Building Material certification system, but there was a difference in that they were only relevant to interior materials and wallpaper
(3) In the functional aspect, as South Korea is rapidly becoming an aging society, we proposed policy directions such as Barrier Free access related to improving housing quality for the elderly, welfare reform, and a residency guarantee system for the elderly
Summary
As global energy use in buildings is sharply increasing, there is rising demand for environmentally friendly performance in buildings as well as contribution to the maintenance and promotion of occupants’ health. South Korea promoted the development of large-scale new towns involving the high-density construction of high-rise housings. In case of Sejong city in South Korea, there was a master plan to construct the over 40 floors of high-rise complex housings and to supply 200,000 households accommodating 500,000 people of Sejong city until 2020 [1,2]. In South Korea’s housing market, the “housing supply ratio” which is result dividing the total housing units by the number of households went above 100% in 2009, and it reached 103.5% in 2014 [3]. If the housing supply ratio reaches over 100%, it means that the number of housing units is more than the households. According to the “real-estate 114” DB, the number of national housings went above 308,337 in 2015 as shown in Figure 1 [4].
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