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Effects of green building certification on organizational productivity metrics

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/23001861
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Construction
FormatText, Technical Report
Physical description27 p.
Subjectgreen buildings; offices; productivity; sustainable; job performance; job satisfaction; bâtiments écologiques; bureaux; productivité; durable; rendement au travail; satisfaction professionnelle
Abstract
There is increasing interest in understanding how office accommodation affects organizational productivity. Data on metrics of engagement, job satisfaction, job performance, and facility complaints for thousands of employees of a large Canadian financial organization were analysed to explore differences in outcomes between those working in green-certified office buildings and those in otherwise similar conventional buildings. Overall, green buildings demonstrated higher scores on survey outcomes related to job satisfaction, value to clients and stakeholders, evaluation of management, and corporate engagement. There was also a tendency for manager-assessed job performance to be higher in green buildings. Nevertheless, not all green buildings outperformed all conventional buildings, and superior performance was not exhibited on all outcomes examined. A key observation is that such metrics are routinely recorded by organizations, but relating them to building characteristics is new. Recognition of such data sets opens up many promising avenues for buildings research.
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PublisherNational Research Council of Canada. Construction
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  • Research Report (National Research Council of Canada. Construction), no. RR-399 (29 March 2017).
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  • Newsham, Guy R., Jennifer A. Veitch, and Yitian (Vera) Hu. ‘Effect of Green Building Certification on Organizational Productivity Metrics’. Building Research & Information 46, no. 7 (4 September 2017): 755–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2017.1358032.
LanguageEnglish
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NRC numberNRC-CONST-56186
NPARC number23001861
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