Investigation on Awareness and Preference of General Public toward Building Construction Materials in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Hsiu-Hui Feng, 馮琇慧
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72272247037859219256

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 建築系 === 104 === Nowadays when everyone cares about environmental protection, the greatest benefits of Wooden construction compared with Reinforced concrete construction is life cycle and CO2 emission leading low-load for earth. And it is a good choice of Wooden construction because of its adjusting humidity level and temperature characteristic. Although Wooden construction is the main development in most of districts in the world, there are almost used Reinforced concrete construction to build residence in Taiwan. Lots of people think about wooden construction as a low-small house and have deep hesitation. This paper expect that thoroughly understand general public’s reference and awareness of construction in Taiwan to realize the problem and feasibility of promoting Wooden construction. The research went to compare Wooden construction and Reinforced concrete construction with merits and drawbacks of the various factors by reviewing study. Then sent out questionnaires to the public and experts in two stages of the investigation carried out by descriptive statistics and SPSS software with T-test and Nonparametric statistics to understand the public’s preferences and awareness in construction and feasibility of promoting Wooden construction. The first stage of the questionnaires were recycled 215 parts of public people and 20 parts of experts through the Internet and paper. The second stage of the questionnaires were recycled 30 parts of preceding 215 people by random sampling who already accepted information about building construction materials, and there’s the following results: According to the first stage of the public survey data after finishing the analysis: (1) The public preference Housing conditions: between the amount of 8 million to 12 million, 30 to 40 plains of floors, the northern and middle parts regions, the total of the following five-storeys building, mixed building construction. (2) Pay special attention on earthquake and fire resistance. (3) No significant differences in sample northern, middle and southern. After the second stage of the investigation, the awareness about Wooden construction between public and expert be changed from significant differences to non-significant by explaining information. Mixed construction still the most public choice for house, but people chose Wooden construction becomes more and Reinforced concrete construction decreased. The results show: Although there is a gap on awareness about wooden construction between the public and expert in Taiwan, people started to understand and consider selecting wooden construction after explanation the information. It means Wooden construction have potential promotion and developing market. We hope through research results to provide reference in the private or public building project to architects and investors. Referencing public reference to promote or aiming quite different awareness and hesitation about Wooden construction to explain and improve can make more choices of housing construction in Taiwan.