著者

高鴨 沙里 中山 徹

出版者

日本家政学会

雑誌

日本家政学会誌 = Journal of home economics of Japan (ISSN:09135227)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.57, no.6, pp.421-430, 2006-06-15

参考文献数

11

被引用文献数

2

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This study aims to grasp the outline of the organizational structure and the housing production in the sector of housing industry that focuses public attention on the use of local wood. A questionnaire was distributed to 325 organizations and responses were received from 110 businesses. The survey clarified the following five items:(1) Organizational structure (cooperation or coordination, leadership, constituent members and scale or size), (2) Purpose and content of activity, (3) Housing supply and cost, (4) House definition and wood used, and (5) Problems. Seventy-two point seven percent are managed in cooperation of businesses of different types: the majority of the constituent members are design offices, construction companies and sawmills. Those members are mostly small or medium scale businesses. Leadership-wise, the respondents may be divided into two types: those by the housing industry and those by the forestry or wood producing industry. They aim to conserve natural environment while trying to create closeness between producers and customers. It is to be noted that the number of houses respectively supplied by 68.2% of the organizations in a year averaged only less than ten. More than 60% of the wood used by many respondents were locally produced, but about half of the organizations used imported wood either limited by budget or otherwise. A problem cited by 60.4% was the difficulty of obtaining customers. The direct participation by wood producers in the housing industry may lead to an increased use of domestic wood. However, the organizations are divided into those led by the housing industry and those by the wood producers. Therefore, it will be necessary to clarify the commonness as well as the differences between the two in terms of their structure and housing philosophy.