Assessing strategies for implementing sustainable real estate management at Ghana Cocoa Board.
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2021-06-15
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Abstract
The concept of sustainability has lately been over stressed by many government official
and international bodies. Recent forum held both by the World Economic Forum and
Ghana Economic Forum advocates for corporations to consider incorporating
sustainability into their practices. Several researchers have looked at how sustainability
is applied to real estate management practices. The concept sustainability as defined first
in the Brundtland report has been adopted as the definition that explores the practices
that can be considered as sustainable practice of the real estate socially, economically
and environmentally. There are scant researches into the practices that are considered as
sustainable management practice of the real estate in Ghana. This study seeks to assess
factors for implementation of sustainable real estate management practices in Ghana
using Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) as a case study by examining the real estate
management practices that exists at Cocobod, identify sustainable practices in real estate
management and lately propose strategies for implementing sustainable real estate
management practice The survey was conducted purposively with selected Real Estates
Officers in the various Estates departments of Cocobod given as a sample size of 25
respondents through discussions and questionnaires of the concept reviewed from the
literature. The analysis was done both with Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS) figures and Relative importance index tables.The study concludes that
Government should come out with legislations that would compel government agencies
to incorporate practice that are sustainable in the management of the real estate asset.
Consequently, the study recommends that other government agencies who have real
properties should consider the structure of the estates department of Cocobod that haveiv
Estates Officers who handle the soft issue of the real estate and work superintendent to
handle the hard issues of the buildings.
Description
A thesis presented to the Department of Construction Technology and
Management, College of Art and Built Environment
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of
Masters of Science
Keywords
Sustainability, Sustainable Corporate Real Estate Management, Commercial Real Estate