期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：2
页码：1100-1107
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i2/5667
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Buildings has contributed almost 30% to carbon emission worldwide which also contributed to the climate changes. Over 30 year ago until today, building stocks has rising drastically in fulfilling the needs and humankind greediness. Yet, the rising of building stocks become a major challenge in improving the sustainability impact especially the environmental aspects. Since, building stocks has expanding without control will increase the numbers of carbon emission produced from existing building. This scenario urges a transformation to embedded sustainability practices in existing buildings and existing buildings should not be neglected. However, benefits of implementations, rarely to be highlighted especially in public sector mainly in local authorities’ existing building. This study highlights the benefits of sustainable initiatives implemented by local authorities to inspire others in adopting sustainable initiatives. Using semi structured interview with selected top management in local authorities. The information obtained yet, was analysed using content analysis method. The findings discovered eight (8) benefits obtained from sustainable initiatives in local authorities existing building. Unfortunately, the initiatives outcome only focuses on economy aspects compared environment and social aspect of Tipple Bottom Line (TBL). Hence, benefits of sustainable initiatives on economic aspects need to be tied up and balance with environment and social benefits in order to reduce huge gap in TBL aspects and to inspire others adopting sustainable concept. Thus, further research required to measure the effectiveness from environmental benefits, social and economic outcome.
