scholarly journals A Framework of Building and Locational Characteristics Ranking for Purpose-built Offices in Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edie Ezwan Mohd
Keyword(s):  
National Policy ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Intelligent Building ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Office Market ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Technology Growth

The development of purpose-built office market in Malaysia is primarily resolved by a supplydemand market. Since the office market in Malaysia has displayed significance improvement due to increasing level of competitiveness, many characteristics of purpose-built office have appeared and become prominent during the process of assessment. These characteristics were generally used as indicators in property valuation, building performance as well as office market appraisal. Based on these characteristics, property market participants can evaluate their property proficiently based on their requirements, especially in decision making during business planning, investment or property management. Technology growth and national policy also gave contribution factors on revealing newly characteristics of purpose-built office such as green building, intelligent building and sustainable development model. The purpose of this article is to identify suitable characteristics of purpose-built office that can be used in Malaysia. Integral to achieving this objective, exploration on purpose built office characteristics in a global and local context will be reconsidered. As a result, a building and locational framework of purpose-built office's characteristics in Malaysia will be diagnosed and verified appropriately.

scholarly journals The Characteristics of Purpose-built Office: Occupants’ perception

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Edie Ezwan Mohd Safian ◽  
Abdul Hadi Nawawi
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Office Market ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Property Performance ◽  
Open Access Article ◽  
Significant Factors

Report from Asia Pacific Colliers had suggested that continued proactive marketing efforts and tenancy offerings could maintain the local office market performance. Therefore, the characteristics of PBO are significant factors that need to be studied. The aim of this paper is to examine the occupiers’ perceptions and needs as well as the importance of the characteristics that applied in PBO. Hence, this paper identified the issues that could provide ideas to the property market participants in improving PBO’s market and building performance via investigating the perception of occupants in order to determine the factors that affect office market property performance. Keywords: Purpose-built office; characteristics; occupants; perceptions. eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v3i8.289 

Factors Hindering Green Building Performance: A Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsau Kar Yen ◽  
Izran Sarrazin Mohammad ◽  
Maizan Baba ◽  
Rohaya Abdul Jalil ◽  
Nurul Nadiah Zainol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Performance Potential ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
And Control

The demand for green buildings in the property market is substantially increasing. The motivation for the investment on green buildings ranges from environmental concerns and social benefits to financial savings during the operational stage. However, these perceived benefits have been argued to be mostly theoretical and yet to be empirically proven. There is often a performance gap between the expected and the actual measured performance of green buildings once operational. Green buildings simply fail to perform as to what it was intended despite the thorough design and technological considerations put at the initial stage of their development. Hence, by reviewing various literatures, this paper targets to indicate and discuss the factors that hinder green buildings from achieving their fullest performance potential. Six theoretical factors namely miscommunication, technologies used, modeling tools, construction process and handover, occupant behavior and management and control were identified from various literatures. The findings in this paper will be a commencement for further studies pertaining to non-performance of green buildings. 

scholarly journals HOLISTIC APPROACH TO THE SUSTAINABLE COMMERCIAL PROPERTY BUSINESS: ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN EXISTING SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-268
Author(s):  
Aliane Vieira de Castro ◽  
Gema Ramírez Pacheco ◽  
Fco. Javier Neila González
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Commercial Property ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Corporate Social

Sustainability is no longer a new concept. However, applying, measuring and reporting on the sustainability initiative is still a somewhat confused and subjective issue. There is a huge variety of sustainability guidelines and green building schemes of differing natures, meanings and wordings. Despite this, there is no one guideline providing a crossreference between corporate social responsibility and green building performance to help the commercial property market completely incorporate sustainability into their activities. Therefore, this paper intends to link sustainability, real estate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainable building in order to help companies internalise this concept in all areas of their operations aligning it with their strategic planning. From desk-based research, this proposal examines and compares key aspects of the main schemes in existence, which are currently evolving in the definition, assessment and report of sustainability at the corporate and built environment level. This approach provides key information to help professionals get a better understanding of the specific changes which sustainability brings about in their corporate process, strategies, investment decisions, daily business operations as well as their property management. The insights presented here can support real estate companies to develop comprehensive communication flows and tools for the measurement and disclosure of sustainability data.

Point-of-Interest Recommendation with Global and Local Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Peng Han ◽  
Shuo Shang ◽  
Aixin Sun ◽  
Peilin Zhao ◽  
Kai Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Context ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Global And Local

scholarly journals On Selecting Approaches to Analysis of the Residential Property Market

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Kovalevskaya ◽  
Vladislav Tyunkov
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Residential Property ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Consumer Interests ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Private Individual

The article examines the issues of developing the residential property market taking into account the specifics of real estate as an object of the economic analysis. It reveals the terms of implementing economic interest in investing in residential property, identifies the features inherent in the residential property market as investment and commodity markets. It analyses the dual nature of real estate which explains the development of investment and consumer interests of the residential property market participants. The article analyses the interrelation of «saving - investment - consumption» at the level of implementing private (individual) interests of economic subject. It makes a comparison of various investment assets in terms of their attractiveness for private investors, depending on various factors affecting the decision to invest. It analyses the terms that allow to fully disclose the investment or consumer aspects of the residential property market. It considers the impact of the governmental investment policy directed at supporting and promoting development aspects of the residential property market.

scholarly journals Context modeling based on feature models expressed as views on ontologies via mappings

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 961-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinisa Neskovic ◽  
Rade Matic
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Context Modeling ◽  
Feature Models ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Global And Local

This paper presents an approach for context modeling in complex self adapted systems consisting of many independent context-aware applications. The contextual information used for adaptation of all system applications is described by an ontology treated as a global context model. A local context model tailored to the specific needs of a particular application is defined as a view over the global context in the form of a feature model. Feature models and their configurations derived from the global context state are then used by a specific dynamic software product line in order to adapt applications at runtime. The main focus of the paper is on the realization of mappings between global and local contexts. The paper describes an overall model architecture and provides corresponding metamodels as well as rules for a mapping between feature models and ontologies.

BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION AS AN EARLY INTERVENTION OR LATE VERIFICATION IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: SAME PERFORMANCE OUTCOME BUT DIFFERENT DESIGN SOLUTIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohuan Xie ◽  
Zhonghua Gou
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Performance Simulation ◽  
Building Performance Simulation ◽  
Integrated Design Process

INTRODUCTION Current green building practice has been largely advanced by an integrated design process. This integrated design process involves multiple disciplines, such as architecture, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering. The design method heavily relies on utilizing building performance simulation to illustrate how design parameters affect the energy consumption and quality of the indoor environment before actual design decisions are made (Anderson, 2014). The architectural design tools in the integrated design process supersede traditional geometrical exploration instruments, such as Sketchup, Revit, ArchiCad, and Rhino (Negendahl, 2015). More building performance simulating tools, such as Ecotect, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Radiance, and EnergyPlus, have been developed to help architects measure building performance (e.g., natural ventilation, daylighting, solar radiation, and energy uses) in the design process and attain green building standards such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). The information presented by these tools guide architects at a certain level in achieving green building goals. However, building simulation is generally beyond the architect's knowledge domain. Many architects have difficulty in understanding these technical terms and models, as well as their design implications. Therefore, specific consultants have emerged to help architects grasp the meanings of these numbers and models, which require architects to implement a high level of design collaboration and coordination (Aksamija, 2015; Gou & Lau, 2014). Simulation consultants can work in parallel with architects at the early design stage to intervene in the conceptual and schematic design; they may also work behind architects to verify the building performance after the design is finished and make their design green through technical alterations. Most existing literature argues for an early intervention of building performance simulation in the architectural design process and explores different algorithms or models for optimal intervention (Degens, Scholzen, & Odenbreit, 2015; Sick, Schade, Mourtada, Uh, & Grausam, 2014; Svetlana Olbina & Yvan Beliveau, 2007). However, the difference between early intervention and late verification is often not investigated. Few qualitative studies can help understand how the building performance simulation is actually implemented, and how it influences the quality of design solutions in addition to the quantity of performance outcomes. The current research presents two case studies that compare building performance simulation as an early intervention and a late verification tool in the architectural design process, which contextualizes the building simulation research in real building practices.

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