GREEN ECONOMY: THE CASE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDING CLUSTER IN GREECE

The aim of the present original for the Greek standards research, was to reach the necessary conclusions in order to detect the critical mass of the professionals who really wish, either to get actively involved or to support the establishment of a sustainable building cluster, which will contribute in green economy. For the present research, which was made in mid of 2010, the methodology followed was this of editing, gathering and processing, of questionnaires specially constructed for the purpose of the study. The questionnaires were addressed to businesses and organizations that are directly or indirectly involved to the establishment of the sustainable building cluster. The data were processed and analyzed using SPSSWIN ver 17.0 and the relative statistical tests of Frequencies, Descriptives and Crosstabs, independence tests between all variables using X2 criterion, correlation analysis and analysis of variance (t-test), and content validity tests of the variables used in the questionnaires were also made.