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- Femenias, Paula, 1966
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Accepting the Challenge: Interpretation and Implementation of Sustainable Building in the Swedish and the Dutch Building Sectors
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Ingår i: I Proceedings of Sustainable Building 2002 International Conference – “The Challenge, The Knowledge, The Solutions”, September 23-25 2002. Olso, Norway..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents an interview study with 27 actors in the Swedish and the Dutch building sector (architects, clients, and environmental consultants) conducted in 2001-2002. The study show how these actors have interpreted, assimilated, and rendered meaning to the issue of sustainable building through their daily work. Results show that sustainable building is on its way to becoming a known and used concept but still on a low level and mainly individual interpretations. The respondents emphasizes on other than merely environmental issues in the concept of sustainable building. Several Swedish respondents focus on social aspects and small scale local solutions. Dutch respondents reflect a more unified image in which official guidelines are more present than their Swedish colleagues. Social issues are less reflected and, instead, building issues are addressed. In the Netherlands, there are indications that an already established idea of sustainable building can come into conflict with personal ideals of sustainable building, such as health and comfort. The paper show that there is a risk on the one hand that the interpretation is too narrow excluding initiatives on a broad level, on the other hand there are tendencies that the concept is widening and thus a risk that the concept is watered out. The paper presents support and obstacles to sustainable building on three levels: society, the building sector and the building project. The respondents put forward built examples (demonstration projects) as one main support to sustainable building. Other main support is political support (on a national and a local level), tax incentives/regulation, energy/water prices, information, guidelines, tools, cooperation, and education. An economic regression is by several respondents seen as supportive as this stimulates creativity. Several respondents would prefer stronger building codes. In Sweden, conservatism, opposing forces, power structures and structural problems in the building sector are seen as major obstacles.
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- Femenias, Paula, 1966
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Demonstration Projects for Sustainable Building: Towards a Strategy for Sustainable Development in the Building Sector based on Swedish and Dutch Experience
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores demonstration projects as a potential strategy for supporting processes towards sustainable development in the building sector through making mainstream building more sustainable. The research question has been approached in four empirical studies carried out in Sweden and the Netherlands, which study demonstration projects for sustainable housing from different perspectives. These are: 1) two case studies, 2) qualitative interviews with key actors, 3) a study of the image conveyed by the Swedish trade press, and 4) a study of the image conveyed by The Swedish Architectural Review. The findings are discussed using a framework presenting the notions of sustainable development and sustainable building, conditions for learning and development in the building sector as well as the findings from earlier research in the field. The thesis indicates that demonstration projects have an important role in the processes towards sustainable development in the building sector. The demonstration project provides real-world data, makes sustainable building a tangible and visible concept and is a means of learning through doing for the actors involved. The demonstration project becomes a reference to what sustainable building is and how this can be accomplished. The demonstration project has the potential of becoming a strategy for systematic successive learning and development on the path to reaching long-term abstract objectives for sustainable development through realistic advancements and in accordance with conditions for learning and development in the building sector. However, in order to become an effective strategy, deficiencies in contemporary demonstration projects have to be solved. This concerns the lack of incentives and interest for learning; deficiencies in the production of reliable and useful information; and the lack of institutions for information dissemination. The fact that demonstration projects are handled as special projects also impedes their influence on mainstream building. Moreover, ideals in contemporary demonstration projects often fail to address ideals and interests among actors in the building sector. The thesis provide a basis for the enhanced understanding and use of demonstrations projects, both from a theoretical and a practical view, and discusses the production and dissemination of reliable and useful information as well as factors that will affect the influence of demonstration project on mainstream building.
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