RESEARCH ARTICLE
Cohousing and Sustainability Rating Systems: Opportunities for Planning Groups and Developers
Lv Wei*, 1, April D. Allen2, Lee Davis2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 154
Last Page: 163
Publisher ID: TOBCTJ-9-154
DOI: 10.2174/1874836801509010154
Article History:
Received Date: 10/4/2015Revision Received Date: 20/5/2015
Acceptance Date: 15/6/2015
Electronic publication date: 19/8/2015
Collection year: 2015
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
To identify specific priorities of existing cohousing residents with regard to sustainable building design and practice as outlined in the LEED for Homes design protocol. This article examined the level of importance of various sustainability features have with residents for cohousing residents in cohousing communities and Having an understanding of the environmental priorities of existing cohousing groups will give some direction to future residents and developers to focus on areas that are most appealing to those who choose to live in a socially connected community. Knowing that generations of users may have different priorities helps to target decisionmaking within a group so that consensus can be reached.