Sustainable Building Renovation: Proposals for a Research Agenda

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify research gaps and potential new topics for research in relation to the management of sustainable building renovation. The paper is based on a literature review of current research on sustainable building renovation. It analyses the research to pinpoint main focus areas and strengths, as well as identifying areas of weakness and research gaps, which are seen as potential topics for new research. The emphasis is on comprehensive renovation projects of buildings with a holistic sustainability approach. The analysis focuses on the management and process aspects in relation to planning, decision-making, conducting, and evaluating renovation projects. The result is a proposal for new research topics for sustainable building renovation. The current research shows a dominating focus on developing new tools for design support and measuring environmental performance, while there is limited research on developing strategies for renovation and improving the productivity of renovation processes. Out of the three pillars of sustainability, social sustainability is the least defined, and there is a need to develop methods to make a holistic prioritization and evaluation of all aspects of sustainability.

Evaluation of Sustainable Energy Development Progress in EU Member States in the Context of Building Renovation

“…Greater comfort [9,19,30] Social norms [12,31] Personal benefits (e.g., image) [7,9] Diverging priorities [12] Preconceived attitudes towards efficiency and saving [7] Environmental Technical and industrial Contribution to protection from global warming [7] Lack of innovative technical solutions [7,10,12] Promotion of renewable energy [7] Lack of consistent and standardized solutions [12] Possible damage to buildings [12] Administrative and regulatory Complicated administrative requirements, time costs [7,11] Complicated dealing with contractors and sub-contractors [7] Overlapping laws [11] Supply-side Insufficiently structured and specialized supply [9] Lack of knowledge and skills possessed by construction professionals [10][11][12] Fragmentation of the supply chain [10] Source: Compiled by the authors.…”

Preventive Maintenance Model for National School Buildings in Indonesia Using a Constraint Programming Approach

“…Equation (9) indicates that all buildings must be above 0 BCI value. The limited maintenance budget condition is described in the constraint Equation (10), where f j represents the total available maintenance budget every year, and c ik represents the maintenance cost. The details for maintenance cost (c ik ) for each building and annual maintenance budget (f j ) are provided in Table A1 in the Appendix A.…”

“…This study adopts school buildings as a case study to discuss different aspects of building maintenance problems since school buildings are high-priority public facilities to preserve from the public asset management point of view. Given the importance of educational facility preservation, some nations have emphasized the renovation of existing school buildings and launched school building modernization programs to ensure building sustainability [7][8][9][10]. Meanwhile, the maintenance of school buildings in Indonesia remains a scattershot affair [11].…”

Navigating the logics of changing public facilities management

“…It has been recognized that PFMOs need to develop new kinds of (strategic) organizational capabilities (Junghans, 2013; Olsson et al , 2015; Ramskov-Galamba and Nielsen, 2016; Svensson, 2018; Jensen et al , 2018; Bröchner et al , 2019; Pardalis et al , 2019) to manage this growing number of challenges. However, little is known about how such work is conducted in practice and how PFMOs’ officials are conditioned by the specifics of the multiple logics milieu (Galamba et al , 2012; Hill et al , 2013; Boyd and Schweber, 2017; Campbell, 2017; Castán Broto, 2019).…”