Marziyeh sadat Moayeri1, Seyed Azim Hosseini2*, Mehdi Nani3, Hamidreza Rabieifar4 and Jafar Asadpour5
Abstract
Building construction is an essential part of the construction activities and investments made in this industry of Iran in the last three decades. The construction industry includes important economic, social, cultural, and environmental perspectives due to the wide range of fields. The challenges of poor construction quality in luxury residential building projects are uncountable and require the stakeholders to this issue. This mixed qualitative-quantitative study aimed to identify the factors affecting the quality of luxury residential buildings in Iran. A total of 18 experts were selected by purposive sampling after reviewing previous studies. A semi-structured interview was conducted to collect the necessary data based on theoretical saturation. Then three stages of open, central, and selective coding were performed using ATLAS. ti software. Then, a 21-item researcher-made questionnaire was prepared based on the five-choice Likert scale, which had the necessary validity and reliability. The conceptual research model was evaluated among 250 distribution experts using LISREL software and confirmatory factor analysis. According to the results, all the factors and characteristics identified regarding the quality of luxury residential buildings in Iran were confirmed. The factors of visual and aesthetic proportions and welfare and health were the highest priority, and lowest priority, respectively.
Keywords:
:Quality, Luxury residential buildings, Qualitative analysis, Confirmatory factor analysis
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