Regulations enforcement mechanisms for sustainable housing projects

Abstract EN

Regulations are one of the instruments that governments used to achieve objectives of their policies.

Sustainable projects often face compliance problems when working to meet the applicable regulations.

The challenge for governments is to develop and apply enforcement mechanisms that achieve the best possible outcomes by achieving the highest possible levels of compliance.

The aim of this paper is to identify the most effective mechanisms that can be used to develop a framework for the regulations enforcement for the applications of sustainable housing projects.

Accordingly, this paper reviews the common classification of building regulations and enforcement steering mechanisms, in addition to the related international tools of sustainable housing development.

The researchers developed a questionnaire included proposals for legislation within five main themes: materials, energy efficiency, water efficiency, health and safety as well as management of residential complexes during the occupation and maintenance phase.

Findings represented the highly importance and top preference of incentive mechanism for enhancing sustainable housing regulations.

Furthermore, in the theme of health and safety is within the authority of the institution that set these regulations to be imposed on providers and developers of housing.

While the results of both energy efficiency and management of housing complexes indicate that legislation be obligated through centralized Act and not as an institutional, so any institution must impose these legislations on housing developers.