Low Jo Ann (SDE/ARK1), Neo Jen Kiat (FASS/ARS1), Vivian Lim Wei Wen (FoS/PMC1), Wong Khai Terng (FoS/PMC1)
Academic Advisor: Sadaf Ansari | Student Fellow: Nicholas Tan
A green building is an environmentally sustainable building, designed, constructed and operated to minimize the total environmental impacts. In this project, we seek to investigate plausible solutions from the user’s perspective that can hopefully improve the energy efficiency and performance of green buildings in NUS in the long run. Based on our survey done within the NUS campus and secondary studies, we conclude that NUS users in general are not particularly aware of the concept of green buildings and this might have an implication on the overall energy efficiency and building performance of green buildings in NUS. Given that “significant progress in green buildings can only be sustained by understanding the changes to technology and the resultant user engagement with it”(Cole, 2003), we seek to examine plausible solutions based on existing technology that can sustain user engagement, so as to maximize the energy-saving potential of green buildings in NUS.
Keywords: Built Environment and Green Infrastructure， Green Buildings, Energy Use, User feedback