Sustainable Provision of School Buildings in The Netherlands: An Empirical Productivity Analysis of Local Government School Building Operations

Building operations and construction are responsible for a large part of global energy use carbon dioxide emissions. In this paper, we present an analysis the efficiency productivity provision school buildings by Dutch municipalities. A cost function is estimated years 2005–2016 using stochastic frontier methods based on data The results indicate that inefficiency unproductiveness substantial. more appropriate scale, detailed performance benchmarking including incentives innovative behaviour may result in sustainable less emission dioxide.