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pilot project between Johannesburg City Parks Corporate Projects and young entrepreneur Tim Hogins of Green
Outdoor Gyms. The outdoor gyms provide world-class equipment in a secure park setting.
The project has enhanced the quality of lives of citizens. Several users have reported improved health conditions.
Also linked to healthy lifestyle initiatives such as a food garden in previously disadvantaged areas.
2.3.2. Housing in Joburg Township (Tebogo Homes)
The townships south of Johannesburg were originally intended to be temporary accommodations for mine workers
in South Africa during the apartheid period (Tessema et al., 2009). However, even today South African township is
often characterized by lack of living space and infrastructure, unemployment, high rate of crime, among others.
The new buildings on Tebogo home display a good example of how to use green building methods in an urban
surrounding recycling on mainly inexpensive and locally available building materials. It shows that local materials
are an innovative building design, no outside energy is needed to provide a pleasant indoor climate. This project
achieved crucial improvement of the thermal comfort.
3.0 Research Methodology
This study adopted a convenience sampling method. The questionnaires were administered to construction
professionals who are at present or have taken a shot at a green building project in Johannesburg. This paper focus
on the section for laying out the advantages of green structures. A five point Likert scale was utilized to rank the
benefit of green buildings. The results were analyzed performing descriptive analysis
4.0 Survey results and Discussion
4.1 Section A. Background Information
Out of the questionnaires disseminated, 40 completed sets were received. The survey results were analyzed,
performing descriptive as well as statistical analyses such as MIS. The respondents were from consultancy
(39.48%), the government sector respondent rate is 50.84%, and Contractor respondent is 9.68%. The amount of
green building projects that the respondents were involved in; 70% of the respondents were involved in 1-2 projects,
15% were involved in 3-4 projects, 8.53% were involved in 5-6projects and 6.45% were involved in 7-8 projects.
The following section elaborates the analysis of the result.
4.2 Section B. Benefits of green buildings
The respondents were asked to rate the benefits of green buildings in Johannesburg ,Gauteng province , the
following result were obtained; Green building provide better health for building occupants due to the improved
indoor quality (MIS=4.50, R=1) ; lead to the development of more energy-efficient products and services
(MIS=4.50, R=1); Green building improve comfort, satisfaction and well-being of building occupants
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Bandung, Indonesia, March 6-8, 2018
© IEOM Society International