The economics of sustainable residential building in Australia

DOI

10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.442How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sustainable building, willingness to pay, energy rating, valuation

Abstract

Sustainable buildings have been commonly considered as more expensive than traditional design building. Public has concerned about actual economic return of energy efficient building. This study tries to analyze economical return of sustainable residential building in Melbourne and what is rational decision of sustainable feature when occupants try to build a new house. This report result shows that some improvement of sustainable feature in building has positive impact on the value of building. This report is going to help investor and developer to make balance between the economical efficiency and energy efficiency of energy efficient building.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lefeng Liu
AU  - Changjiang Liu
PY  - 2016/06
DA  - 2016/06
TI  - The economics of sustainable residential building in Australia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials, Environment, Biotechnology and Computer
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2209
EP  - 2213
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.442
DO  - 10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.442
ID  - Liu2016/06
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