The Building Professional's Awareness og Green Retrofitting
By Shoheena Maharjan
Spring 2022
Sustainability has been the latest value-added service in the facility management field. However, the practice of sustainability in the facility management field is not well recognized and understood by the facility management team. As a result, building sector account to be the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions around the world. In fact, there is a strong business case for green building, yet green buildings represent the next phase of buildings. Since, the majority of the existing stock of buildings is not sustainably built and as it is not practically viable to demolish all the existing buildings, hence, one alternate solution is green retrofitting. However, the responses for green retrofitting are at very low rate in the context of Nepal. Through this research, the overall concept of green building will be understood. The research aims to highlight the way in which building professionals currently understand and view the concept of green retrofitting within the context of existing buildings and aims at understanding their viewpoint of whether they feel that retrofitting an existing structure is economically feasible and whether or not they feel that the retrofitting of an existing building will in fact result in a reduction in energy consumption. The green retrofitting of existing buildings has become an important breakthrough for the construction industry to achieve sustainable development and has been upgraded to the national strategic level. The greening of existing building improves the performance of existing building and extends the life of buildings. The strategy is equally important in urban renewal. Therefore, green transformation is advantageous in promoting economic and social sustainable development. The primary objective of the research study is to gain a better understanding energy retrofitting within the context of Nepal.