Developing a building-performance evaluation framework for post-disaster reconstruction: the case of hospital buildings in Aceh, Indonesia

Abstract

Developing countries have faced many problems regarding humanitarian reconstructed buildings, especially during occupancy when most donors have left. Hospitals are some of the most important buildings in the disaster-management cycle. Previous studies have shown that there is no specific tool for evaluating post-disaster hospital-building performance. This study aims to test the validity and reliability of a proposed framework of building-performance evaluation (BPE) in a disaster context for public hospitals based on partial least squares (PLS) analysis. The researcher distributed 405 questionnaires to building users in four rebuilt public hospitals in Aceh, Indonesia. The results showed that the hierarchical construct model (HCM) with reflective-reflective relationships and third-order framework comprises 16 criteria; 72 items were valid and reliable, and all path coefficients were considered highly significant. These results reflect the degree of explained variance of third-order in its second-order components: built environment and building user (89%), building system (93%), and disaster-risk management/DRM (85%). DRM as the new variable added to the BPE conceptual model for a post-disaster reconstruction (PDR) context is justified. The confirmed framework can be used to evaluate post-disaster hospital performance in the future. The BPE framework should also be tested in other types of post-disaster hospitals.

Keywords:

• Building performance evaluation (BPE)
• post-disaster reconstruction (PDR)
• hospital
• disaster risk management (DRM)
• hierarchical construct model (HCM)
• partial least squares (PLS)

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

The authors would like to thank Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for their financial support for this study through the post-graduate fellowship scheme from 2010 to 2012.