Public opinion of hospital campus to response to low carbon city framework criteria

Abstract

Low Carbon City Framework (LCCF), is a system developed by Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water (KeTTHA) as a guideline and performance measurement to build a low carbon city. The system is made to give a guideline to all related parties at all levels to lower carbon dioxide emission. The LCCF guideline also has a carbon calculator to develop a baseline for carbon dioxide emission and achieve the intended target, which to reduce the carbon dioxide emission to the GDP by 40 percent by 2020 with comparison to 2005. To conduct a research on a city is costly and lengthy considering its scale. Therefore, the research is carried out in a hospital campus. A hospital campus is a hospital that has a similar system as a small city which consisted with building and infrastructures. The interest of this study is to investigate opinion of the public in regards to the performance of hospital in response to LCCF criterias on carbon reduction. With the feedback/results obtained from the public, it is recommended that the administration upgrade their policy to a more environmental friendly version and other involvement of the other ministry as the hospital has no direct control over some factors mentioned under some criterias.