| dc.description.abstract | As the world moves toward more sustainability,
Increasing the adoption of green construction has risen to
the top of the construction sector in worldwide. Green
building is a key strategic step towards achieving sustainable
development by saving resources, energy, and environment.
As the world moves to greater sustainability, green building
has gone to the construction industry's priority list. While
currently Sri Lanka is facing an economic and energy crisis,
the green building concepts can help the economy by
boosting the construction sector. If the implement process of
green building concept in Sri Lanka, within the next 30 or 40
years, it may be capable of converting revenue generating
opportunities on construction sector. People only consider
the construction's initial cost rather than the total cost over
its entire life cycle. When it comes to construction time span,
it’s near to 3 to 4 years, while the total life span of a building
counts over 60 to 70 years. It’s better to consider the Life
Cycle Cost (LCC) of a building which consists of
maintenance, overhaul, services, and repair cost
parameters. Thus, the primary goal of this study is to
analyses the cost of a green building and a non-green
building in Sri Lanka. A case study was done on two selected
university buildings. A cost benefit analysis would be carried
out, accounting for the initial cost in comparison to LCC.
Site visits & semi structured interviews which selected by
purposive sampling used for the data collection. This was
done with mix method of qualitative & quantitative, analysed
through comprehensive study. With the aim of economic
consideration of green building concept, this will be a timely
research study to Sri Lanka to overcome this emerged
economic & energy crisis. | en_US |
