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Assessment of sustainability aspects when making pre-renovation decisions
A considerable amount of Europe’s building stock needs to be renovated. The most common reasons for carrying out renovations are acute technical issues or the expiring life span of a building or its components. Other common reason for building owners to carry out renovations in their building stock are high costs for maintenance and operation, and a high energy demand. Furthermore, the construction and real estate sector have been found to be among the greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and energy use and to increase the incentive to renovate the European Union (EU) has a strategy that include the initiative “Renovation wave”. Approximately one third of all multi-family buildings in Sweden need to be renovated, especially multi-family buildings and schools constructed during the record years. Buildings can be seen as our most complex and durable consumer goods. Subsequently, in renovation projects, decision-making is also a complex matter and during the initial evaluation phase of a renovation project it has been seen that there is a lack of time, knowledge, information and tools to make decisions. The hypothesis in this thesis is “Building owners do not, in a systematic way, take into account and manage sustainability aspects in pre-renovation decisions”. The hypothesis was investigated by seven studies that have been carried out by using different methods, such as case studies, surveys, action research, documentation, and literature studies as well as life cycle assessments including scenario and sensitivity assessments.First a literature review on different renovation strategies that could support in including sustainable aspects systematically within the areas of economy, environment and social was conducted. The review showed that there are several strategies to support decisions of sustainability aspects in a renovation process. The problem does not seem to be lack of strategies but rather the implementation of existing strategies as well as continuous development of the ...
Assessment of sustainability aspects when making pre-renovation decisions
A considerable amount of Europe’s building stock needs to be renovated. The most common reasons for carrying out renovations are acute technical issues or the expiring life span of a building or its components. Other common reason for building owners to carry out renovations in their building stock are high costs for maintenance and operation, and a high energy demand. Furthermore, the construction and real estate sector have been found to be among the greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and energy use and to increase the incentive to renovate the European Union (EU) has a strategy that include the initiative “Renovation wave”. Approximately one third of all multi-family buildings in Sweden need to be renovated, especially multi-family buildings and schools constructed during the record years. Buildings can be seen as our most complex and durable consumer goods. Subsequently, in renovation projects, decision-making is also a complex matter and during the initial evaluation phase of a renovation project it has been seen that there is a lack of time, knowledge, information and tools to make decisions. The hypothesis in this thesis is “Building owners do not, in a systematic way, take into account and manage sustainability aspects in pre-renovation decisions”. The hypothesis was investigated by seven studies that have been carried out by using different methods, such as case studies, surveys, action research, documentation, and literature studies as well as life cycle assessments including scenario and sensitivity assessments.First a literature review on different renovation strategies that could support in including sustainable aspects systematically within the areas of economy, environment and social was conducted. The review showed that there are several strategies to support decisions of sustainability aspects in a renovation process. The problem does not seem to be lack of strategies but rather the implementation of existing strategies as well as continuous development of the ...
Assessment of sustainability aspects when making pre-renovation decisions
Farsäter, Karin (Autor:in)
28.04.2022
TVIT; 22(1005) (2022) ; ISSN: 1652-6783
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
690
Making decisions for sustainability and affordability
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