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Title The development of a basic framework for the sustainability of residential buildings in Pakistan
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Subject Sustainable buildings, Key performance indicators, Issues(Sustainability issues), LEED, Pakistan, Correlation analysis
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Author Waqar Ullah, Sahar Noor, Adnan Tariq
Publish Year 2018
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Diss#. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.04
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Pages 365-371
Text Language English
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Library Section Research Article
Abstract Housings is one of the biggest resources consumer and largest greenhouse gases emitter. For measuring the sustainability, a number of different sustainability frameworks developed. However, these tools mostly take environmental and economical issues into accounts and specific to their country. While this framework take environmental and economical and social sustainability issues of inhabitants like marriage, education, source of income, justice, drugs and smoking, tolerance and patience into account. For the development of this framework, initially a questionnaire was designed and thoroughly tested for face, content and construct validities. Data was collected from 234 respondents by using a questionnaire. The Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.881 confirms the reliability of the questionnaire. According to analysis, water, justice and safety remained the top three issues (13% of the total issues). While, noise, location, transportation, designed by a professional and approved from authority, natu