在全球氣候變化的背景下，建築為主體的能源消耗國家及碳排放超量國家已開始受到關注。根據IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)的報告指出，非綠能建築物消耗了40％的能源，因此為減輕全球氣候變化的影響，推廣低碳建築勢在必行。低碳建築主要是指在建築的整個生命周期內，減少化石能源的使用，提高能效、降低二氧化碳的排放量，以達到節能減碳的目的。建築生命週期，係指從建材的生產到建築物規劃設計、營造施工、使用管理、及建築物拆除，其中「規劃設計階段」是決定低碳建築概念是否能落實的關鍵。建築從業人員作為建築與居住者之間的橋樑，對於低碳建築的認知會直接影響到建築的設計概念，且將是推動低碳建築的阻力或助力。
本研究的主要目的是瞭解臺灣地區的建築從業人員對低碳建築與相關設備的認知情況，同時探討影響低碳建築推廣的障礙因素有哪些。以問卷調查法進行資料調查，本研究對象以台灣地區的建築相關從業人員為主，建築從業人員包括建築設計者、建築開發商、室內設計師等，在北、中、南三區問卷共發出392份，回收有效問卷有186份。回收問卷後，採用獨立樣本t檢定、單因子變異數分析、因素分析法等統計分析方法檢定。
研究結果顯示，低碳建築設計上阻礙在於低碳建築建材的成本與業主對於「低碳建築理念」的接受與否。在低碳建築構造設備的認知中，設計者的採用意願與設備的環保效益較有關連性，因此未來發展研發低碳建築的節能設備，應該以提昇設備環保效益為主。在低碳建築構造的障礙因素中，輕鋼構造障礙因素有「材料特性」和「施工設計」；木構造障礙因素有「材料特性」、「施工」、「設計」和「易腐蝕性」。設計者認為鋼構造在施工設計上的問題與難度，和木構造在木材本身的材料特性上(容易腐蝕、防火耐震隔熱不佳等)，才是阻礙設計的主要原因。

Climate change caused by global warming has brought serious impact on ecological and socio-economic, buildings as one of the main energy consumers and carbon emitters attract increasing attention. According to IPCC, buildings consumed 40% energy sources To mitigate the impact of global climate change, must promote low-carbon buildings. Building design and construction can decide whether to implement the concept of low-carbon buildings. Architectural practitioner's cognition toward low carbon building affecting the architectural design concept.
The purpose of this study is to investigate architectural practitioner's willing of using low carbon building and related product. This questionnaire survey targeted architectural practitioner of Taiwan, and 392 questionnaires sent in total, 186 effective questionnaires were collected. All data are analyzed and verified with descriptive statistics, item analysis, factor analysis, pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and one-way analysis of variance.
The study shows that important obstacles of low-carbon building design can be divided into“cost of building materials”and “proprietor acceptance”. Architectural Relationship between practitioner's adoption intention and Environmental benefits of the equipment

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