Costs and Benefits of Implementing Green Building Policy

Conference paper (2017)

Authors

Ke Fan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
G Wei The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
QK Qian OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation
E Chan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation
Copyright: © 2017 Ke Fan, Gu Wei, QK Qian, Edwin Chan
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2017

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English

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OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation

Abstract

Green building (GB) policies have been implemented to promote GB and address climate change. Most of the existing literatures have studied the costs and benefits of developing GB, without considerations of GB policies’ impacts. This paper aims to study costs and benefits of implementing GB policy from developers’ perspective. It takes the Gross Floor Area (GFA) Concession, which is a popular policy and has been implemented in the US, Singapore and Hong Kong, as an example, to compare its implementation in three regions and analyze how it affects developers’ costs and benefits. Findings show that Hong Kong has relatively lower threshold to acquire GFA concession for developers and it is the right time to adjust the GFA concession incentive to reflect the market transformation and further encourage developers to go for higher levels of GB.

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