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Volume Home Building: The Provision of Sustainability Information for New Homebuyers

Construction Economics and Building

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Title Volume Home Building: The Provision of Sustainability Information for New Homebuyers
 
Creator Warren-Myers, Georgia
McRae, Erryn
 
Subject residential construction; sustainability
Residential construction; sustainability; consumers; energy efficient housing; volume builders
Residential construction; sustainability; consumers; energy efficient housing; volume builders
 
Description The new residential housing sector is producing approximately 200,000 homes a year that could benefit from methods to increase sustainability and energy efficiency. Currently, there is limited implementation of sustainability measures beyond mandatory minimum requirements in Australia. New homebuyers are often the scapegoats for the poor sustainability adoption due to their perceived lack of interest and willingness to pay. However, their knowledge and engagement in sustainability is likely to be strongly guided by information provided by the volume builders. This paper investigates the sustainability information that homebuyers are provided by builders, as communicated through their websites. Web searching as an important means of information gathering in the preliminary stages of the process for new homebuyers. This paper reports on the analysis of Australia’s Home Industry Association’s top 100 volume builders’ websites and their provision of sustainability information. The results suggest the lack of sustainability-related information provided by builders is contributing to disengagement by consumers in the sustainability features available in new homes.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2017-06-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/5245
10.5130/AJCEB.v17i2.5245
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 17, No 2 (2017): Construction Economics and Building; 24-40
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/5245/6006
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/5245/6032
 
Coverage Australia
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Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Georgia Warren-Myers
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