A Study On Greening and Beautification Management System of Construction Fences

Beautification of city landscape is not only an important to improve environmental quality in the city, but also a necessary way to shape tourism image. To cope with the 2010 Flora Expo, the Taipei City Government began to promote “Taipei Beautiful Program” in 2009 and the greening of fences around construction sites was requested accordingly. Vertical greening techniques are used by construction fence greening and beautification to improve visual image during building process. Due to the positive effects, other cities began to adopt similar works.

The purpose of this research is to establish an evaluation model for the applications of vertical greening fences in Taipei, Taoyuan and Taichung. The Life-cycle model of construction fence greening and beautification was developed in the first place. The benefits (utility) and differences among practices in Taipei City, Taoyuan County and Taichung City were evaluated accordingly.

Major findings of this study are summarized as following：

1.Factors influencing the performance of construction fences greening and beautification include administrative organization department, development department, techniques offer department and local environment condition.

2.The legal basis of the construction fence greening and beautification in Taipei should be improved.《The traffic and public safety improvements of Taipei building constructions》belongs to the technical regulation, which is unsuitable to draw up a penal provisions. And the raise of this regulation in the law system is suggested.

3.Regarding penalty provisions, the《Regulation of construction period in Taoyuan County》can be reinforced by local autonomy.

4.Compare to other cities, there are more requirements for enforcing construction fence greening and beautification in Taichung.

This study mainly focuses on the evaluation of differences in constructive principles among Taipei City, Tauyuan County and Taichung City. To sum up, it is concluded that Taipei City is the most complete of institution, verification and supervision in. In the future, more researches on builders'' or constructors'' willing and attitude toward fence greening and beautification are suggested. Furthermore, the possibilities for other cities to apply fences greening and beautification policy should be conducted in the future.