SGER: Living Green: Social Sustainability and the Green Built Environment

这个探索性项目涉及对绿色建筑技术对用户健康和福祉的主观体验的影响进行定性研究。对两个社区的居民进行了观察和访谈。其一，建筑采用“绿色”技术设计，目的是使社区环境和社会可持续发展。另一方面，强调社会和环境的可持续性，但建筑不是用绿色技术建造的。通过比较设计，指数确定了人们对自己的健康和幸福的看法的关键差异。这些信息将用于对更大的社区样本进行更广泛的研究。该项目的智力价值在于它确定了人们对社会和环境可持续生活感到满意或不满意的途径，以及绿色技术对满意度的影响。更广泛的影响在于该研究对环境和社会可持续社区设计的贡献，确定了在居民中创造最高满意度的因素。

This exploratory project involves qualitative research on the impact of green built technologies on subjective experience of health and well-being of users. Observations and interviews with residents are conducted on two communities. In one, buildings were designed with "green" technologies with an objective of making the community environmentally and socially sustainable. In the other, social and environmental sustainability are emphasized, but buildings were not built with green technologies. Through the comparative design, the PI identifies key differences in people's perception of their health and well-being. This information will be used to develop a more extensive study of a larger sample of communities. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its identification of the pathways through which people are satisfied or unsatisfied with socially and environmentally sustainable living and the effect that green technology has on satisfaction. The broader impacts lie in the study's contribution to the design of environmentally and socially sustainable communities identifying the factors that create the highest degree of satisfaction among its residents.