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Agenda for first costs reduction in sustainable buildings for emerging markets
Samuel Ekung1*
,
Isaac Odesola2
,
Adeniran Lashinde1
1Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Department of Quantity Surveying, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
2Professor, Department of Building, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
*Corresponding Author
30 June 2021. pp. 126-141
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Abstract

The development of Sustainable Buildings (SB) is laden with high first costs that inhibit their adoption diffusion. The strategies to reduce the first cost and the framework of enabling policies for inspiring dispersed adoption remain tactless and fundamentally unstructured amongst the growing research engagements. This study developed and validated Costs Innovation and Improvement Framework for Sustainable Building Implementation (CIIFSUB) using mixed data analysed using conversational analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics. The integrative framework combines synergy between stakeholders’ roles and innovative practices to demonstrate focal areas for improving cost drivers toward cost reduction (CR) in specific SB development stages. Affordable SB is therefore possible based on the hypothesised interaction between established CR strategies and cost drivers. The performance of CIIFSUB varies among experts (88.711, p (0.000 < 0.05), with significant inter-rater agreement (W, 0.672), the prospect of the framework to achieve major CR is high. Achievable CR using this strategic agenda involves two-phase implementation, pre-project and project actions. Pre-project activities would improve stakeholders’ readiness towards project uptake, while project activities direct systematic interventions towards affordability during planning, design, procurement and construction. The agenda provides adopters in emerging markets with the implementation compass to achieving radical CR benefits in SB development.

Keywords
cost reduction
first costs
framework
social practice theory and sustainable buildings
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  • Publisher :Sustainable Building Research Center (ERC) Innovative Durable Building and Infrastructure Research Center
  • Publisher(Ko) :건설구조물 내구성혁신 연구센터
  • Journal Title :International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
  • Volume : 12
  • No :2
  • Pages :126-141
  • Received Date : 2020-12-10
  • Accepted Date : 2021-06-17
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.22712/susb.20210011
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