Thesis (Master of Construction (Construction Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019 / This study examines the influence of a green building concept on the value of a building. Comprehensive literature was carefully reviewed to provide an overview on the concept of green building and its influence on the value of a building, subject to its overall benefits in South Africa. Several studies have been conducted giving guidelines for the determination of the best capitalisation rates needed for valuing green building properties. However, the information is still inadequate in providing evidence of the relationship between green building features and its influence on the value of a building, leaving most buildings with green features undervalued. This is a peculiar concern this research seeks to bring to notice and with its limited scope proffer possible recommendations and conclusions. A quantitative approach was adopted, facilitating the collection of data through the use of a questionnaire survey that involved randomly selected construction professionals in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The motive behind the adoption of the quantitative method is to facilitate a reliable manner of satisfying the established aim and objectives for determining current practices in valuing green buildings. The above description paved the way for the use of theoretical, statistical and mathematical techniques for computation and interpretation of data to support objective reasoning and measures. Data was analysed with the application of descriptive and inferential statistical analysis tools, wherein the mean values and one-way analysis of variance were carefully determined. The findings demonstrate that the benefits of green building are critical for enhancing a building’s value. The benefits are divided into tangible and intangible benefits to classify impact on a building value. The classification of the impact cut across reduction of the consumption of energy and water, lowering operating cost and developing flexible design options. Some of the significant features of the green building include water metering, a photovoltaic solar panel system, electrical sub-metering, high performance building façade and skylight and borehole water. Further findings indicate that kitchen and water-closet (WC) water efficient fittings is ranked highest with a mean value (MV) of 3.91, followed by megawatt photovoltaic solar plant with an MV of 3.79, and water metering for monitoring and leak detection with an MV of 3.74. In light of the MVs, it is evident that these features significantly influence the value of a green building. Subsequently, the features are classified as: eco-friendly materials and energy conservation feature; water saving and renewable energy feature; safety feature; natural day light and control feature; sun shade and light feature; water management and flooring feature, and special utility feature. Information as gathered in the study demonstrate that the current practices engaged in valuing green building projects do not specifically differ among construction participants, although the perceptions of construction professionals regarding the most significant green building features that enhance the value of a building is on the average. Modalities towards promoting the concept and value of green building require resolute actions that should be implemented by the Green Building Council of South Africa. This concerns the creation of new growth strategies to escalate the awareness and implementation of a green building concept. Based on the benefits and significant features of green building, as determined through respondent affirmatives, this study broadens the view of construction professionals on the influence of a green building concept on the value of a building in South Africa.

Le constat actuel concernant les projets de construction ou de rénovation de bâtiments est la persistance d’un niveau substantiel de non qualité des ouvrages qui vient à l’encontre des objectifs de développement durable de la filière. Pour preuve, les conditions d’usage des bâtiments sont dégradées, les coûts de réparation sont significatifs et l’empreinte environnementale du bâti peine à se réduire. Ces observations sont révélatrices de l’imperfection du processus de production des projets de construction. En effet, ce processus de production a pour finalité de mettre en œuvre des procédés constructifs dont l’intégration fournit des fonctions dites d’usage. Chacune de ces fonctions se décline alors en performances dont le niveau effectif, sur l’ensemble du cycle de vie du bâtiment, dépend de la qualité de mise en œuvre. La présente thèse s’est focalisée, premièrement, sur la quantification d’un indicateur de réussite d’un projet de construction. Pour ce faire, une modélisation de la dynamique du processus de production d’un bâtiment a été entreprise, en tenant compte des perturbations auxquelles il est assujetti, afin de quantifier, de manière prospective, l’écart entre le niveau effectif d’une performance et son niveau souhaité au cahier des charges fonctionnelles. Deuxièmement, à l’échelle d’une performance, la modélisation du processus de production a permis de formaliser une fonction de récupération dépendant des ressources allouées à une opération. Ainsi, avec la proposition d’expressions mathématiques décrivant la dégradation puis la récupération d’une performance, l’analyse de ce qui pourrait s’apparenter au processus globale de résilience, à l’échelle d’un bâtiment a été initiée. En guise d’illustration, deux solutions de réalisations de façades ont été analysées. Une analyse de sensibilité de la « satisfaction » du projet est, alors, conduite en fonction de paramètres comme la compétence du constructeur, la complexité des procédés constructifs ou les ressources allouées / It is widely observed that construction and renovation projects suffer poor quality in the case of buildings, for instance. This is a major drawback as it affects the sustaining development goals of the building industry. Often, the subsequent conditions of service do not meet the normative standards; the costs for renovating the buildings are significant high, and the carbon footprint increases. They result in imperfections of the whole process related to construction projects. In fact, the production process is intended integrate architectural elements and structural components by putting them together adequately with the purpose of providing functions defined as «building features». Each of these features is then expressed as performances whose level, spanning the whole life cycle of the building, depends on the quality of its implementation. The present thesis focuses, in a first part, on the quantification of a « satisfaction index » of any construction project. For this purpose, a dynamic production process modeling a building has been developed; it takes into account disturbances in order to predict quantitatively the gap between the effective performance level and the required and targeted level. In a second part, considering a given performance level, the production process modeling aims to develop « recovery functions » depending on the allocated resources. Therefore, hypothetic mathematical expressions are adopted in order to describe the deterioration and the recovery of a performance level. A theoretical approach is also developed; it is adapted by analogy with global resilience process, at the scale of a building scale. For illustrative and comparative purposes, two kinds of constructive methods, for exterior walls (façade) are considered. A sensitivity study of the project’s « satisfaction index» is then performed out according to parameters such as constructor’s know‐how and past experience, constructive process complexity as well as allocated and available resources