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Figure 4 Weak Sustainability Factor by Type of Employment

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The mean factor scores of the academia/education sector were tested against the scores for construction and property, since they had larger numbers of respondents than the other sectors.
No significant differences were found between academia / education and construction. Table 5
below shows the comparison between academia/education and the property sector. The results
show that the academia/education sector has a stronger sustainability standpoint than the property sector.
Table 5 Comparison between academia/education and the property sector and level of
sustainability

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These tests were also run on the variables of gender, age groupings, years of experience, and
education and no differences were detected and the reason is likely to be the small sample size.

Conceptual understanding of sustainability in built environment professionals

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