Public Housing in High-rise Building in Saudi Arabia Case Study : Changes of the Residences Satisfactions Levels at Dammam s Public High-rise Building

(Jamal al-Din Yusuf Hassan Slagor)

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Abstract

This study concentrates on the evaluation of the Saudi s public housing experience in high rise building. A number of pre-occupancy theoretical studies reached the conclusion that the experience, is a failure due to the unsuitability to the conservative Saudi society who is familiar with living in low-detached building, in addition to the failure in its own origin place. The field study done by the researcher, after three years of short occupancy at Dammam s high-rise public housing, reached the conclusion that the Saudi s society could familiarize it sell with new housing experience, and could change a lot of negatives issues into positive. This study is an extension of the first one, to examine the real experience of long occupancy, in order to identify the level of satisfaction changing on Dammam s residents of high rise public housing, during the first field study in 1417H, and the second one in 1427H., and to answer the following questions: whether the level of satisfaction after thirteen years of occupancy is still the same, or whether there are some changes, positive or negative and to what extend?. In the same time, the research will measure based on the normal growth the level of expecting satisfaction changes on the next ten years until 1437H., in order to prepare suitable plan based on quality assurance to face the expecting future changes. The evaluation of the long occupancy experience concentrates on the following items: socio economic character of the residents, residential unit, security level, and maintenance performance. The study reached the conclusion that the Saudi society becomes familiar with such type of housing, the cooperation between the residents through the mutual maintenance affected on strengthen the relationship between neighbors, and its role on balancing the real state market with suitable housing for new form family in the main cities. Also, the study, shows the negative caps for such type of public housing represented by the decline of the level of maintenance and security, in which some of them already reached to critical level of satisfaction, such as water leakage between apartments, and some will expected to reach to critical situation on the next five and ten years, if the situation continue as it without any proper action. The study ended with some recommendations for upgrading the performance, improving the building environment, raising level of residents satisfaction.
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