Balancing Environmental Building Requirements and the Real Estate Investment Needs: Challenges and Visions Highlights
Department of Architecture, Palestine Polytechnic University
How they used Delve
Researchers in the Department of Architecture at Palestine Polytechnic University used Delve to run a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with real-estate investors, engineering offices, and Hebron Municipality officials, turning coded labels and occurrence patterns into the influencing factors of a Lean Six Sigma study on balancing environmental building requirements with investment needs.
“Then, the measurement phase quantified baseline performance through interview frequencies, occurrence patterns in Delve software, and measurable constraints reported by stakeholders. [...] the influencing factors (Table 6) are those that previously formed the labels and patterns in the Delve software thematic analysis.”
- Field
- architecture; sustainable building; real-estate investment
- Data
- Semi-structured interviews with key real-estate investors, engineering offices, and Hebron Municipality key persons, plus building survey visits and questionnaires, in Hebron, Palestine
- Approach
- Thematic analysis of stakeholder interviews inside a Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC) mixed-method design with building energy simulations and questionnaires
- Data types
- Interviews, Open-ended survey responses
Abstract
Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering (JJCE) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering civil engineering. It was established in 2007 and is published by the Jordan University of Science and Technology. Subjects covered include applications of civil rehabilitations, structural control, smart materials, earthquake engineering, geotechnical engineering and soil/rock mechanics, dam engineering, traffic and transportation engineering, water and environmental engineering, construction management and project planning, surveying and mapping, and infrastructures engineering, urban planning, green architecture as well as numerical and analytical methods.
Citation
Jana Tahboub, Bader Alatawneh (2026). Balancing Environmental Building Requirements and the Real Estate Investment Needs: Challenges and Visions Highlights. Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering. https://doi.org/10.14525/jjce.v20i3.08