Sustainable development policy perceptions and practice in the UK social housing sector

Carter, Kate; Fortune, Christopher Joseph

doi:10.1080/01446190600922578

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“…The findings confirm what has been established by the literature, which indicated that the concept of sustainable development has been misunderstood (Carter and Fortune, 2007) and perceived differently (Preuss, 2009). The literature emphasised the need to develop a common understanding of the individual features of sustainabledevelopment policies and how these are addressed at the building-project level (Carter and Fortune, 2007).…”

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“…The literature emphasised the need to develop a common understanding of the individual features of sustainabledevelopment policies and how these are addressed at the building-project level (Carter and Fortune, 2007). The findings also confirm the lack of a balanced approach in terms of the consideration given to the dimensions of sustainability, an issue that has been frequently indicated in the literature (Carter and Fortune, 2007).…”

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confidence: 73%

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Enabling sustainable construction in UK public procurement

Sourani¹,

Sohail

2013

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management,

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Citation: SOURANI, A. and SOHAIL, M., 2013. Enabling sustainable construction in UK public procurement. Proceedings of the ICE -Management, Procurement and Law, 166 (6), Additional Information:• Sustainable construction is about achieving a balance between the social, economic and environmental aspects of construction so that the costs and the benefits, evaluated along these three dimensions, are optimised. Whereas official reports published in the UK have reflected the increasing emphasis on addressing sustainability principles in procurement, the literature suggests that there has been relatively little research on sustainable procurement in the public sector. The aim of this paper is to provide an agreed, comprehensive and evidence-based research into the factors that enable UK public clients to better address sustainable construction in developing procurement strategies.Seeking triangulation, the investigation was conducted using a Delphi exercise and semi-structured interviews/ discussions which involved sustainability professionals and experts. As a result, 41 factors considered to be important for UK public clients to better address sustainable construction in developing procurement strategies were identified.These were categorised into knowledge and perception factors, organisational and management factors, political and regulative factors, logistical factors, contractual factors, instrumental factors, strategic factors and financial factors.

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Enabling sustainable construction in UK public procurement

Sourani¹,

Sohail

2013

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management,

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“…The ambiguity of what constitutes sustainability was also identified as a major problem in the works done by Evans and Jones, (2008) and Brandon and Lombardi, (2011). Much of the sustainable construction literature has shown that sustainability issues have not been well understood and translated into practice by practitioners (Carter and Fortune, 2007). Many of the misapplications of sustainability contents in regeneration projects arise from practitioners' appreciation of sustainability issues.…”

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Exploring the knowledge ‘base’ of practitioners in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects

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Egbu

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In recent years, sustainable regeneration has been recognised as being of major economic and social concern in the world. In the UK for instance, government has initiated a number of policies and evaluation methods to deal with some of the environmental problems associated with regeneration projects. However, the post construction evaluation of these projects has often resulted in them being seen as not achieving their set objectives. Attempts aimed at evaluating the impact of sustainability by built environment practitioners have primarily been limited to their assessment of the projects’ potential environmental impacts, with the associated socio-economic impacts being neglected. There has not been any well-defined built environment research that has been able to deal holistically with the broader issues of sustainability in terms of benefits/impacts of the regeneration projects to the communities concerned. The findings of an exploratory study that adopted a semi-structured interview approach for data collection, to explore the knowledge and understanding of fifteen practitioners who are often involved in the delivery of these projects are presented. The findings reveal a lack of knowledge and understanding of sustainability as well as structured mechanism/practices for evaluating the socio-economic sustainability factors in relation to regeneration projects.

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“…It has been asserted that sustainability appraisal frameworks used in the built environment must address economic, environmental, and social impacts in order to ensure continued sustainable development after regeneration [6]. However, there are gaps in sustainability frameworks in practice [7], and it has been argued that many frameworks sacrifice social and economic factors at the expense of the environment [8]. Some assessment methods have been described as either too diverse from other methods [9], inadequate [10], lacking in important elements [11] or even concerning [12].…”

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Assessing the Value of Housing Schemes through Sustainable Return on Investment: A Path towards Sustainability-Led Evaluations?

Dean¹,

Trillo

Bichard

2017

Sustainability

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The 2016 United Nations (UN) New Urban Agenda clearly reaffirms the concept that sustainable cities require intertwined environmental and social sustainability. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11—“Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”—sets (as a primary target) the provision of sufficient affordable housing. Despite the central role that housing plays in ensuring sustainability and the importance of both environmental and social pillars in ensuring sustainable development, current evaluative methods that support decision making on social housing interventions fail to capture all of the socio-environmental value contained in the UN SDG 11. This paper addresses the issue by demonstrating how Sustainable Return on Investment can successfully describe and analyse a range of externalities related to the sustainable value generated by social housing regeneration schemes. To achieve this goal, a single case study strategy has been chosen. Two extant projects—a high-rise housing scheme and an environmental-led program developed by City West Housing Trust (a nonprofit housing association based in the Manchester area)—have been assessed in order to monetise their social and environmental value through different methods. The findings show that, historically, the environmental and social value of regeneration schemes have been largely disregarded because of a gap in the evaluation methods, and that there is room for significant improvement for future evaluation exercises.

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Sustainable development policy perceptions and practice in the UK social housing sector

Cited by 33 publications

References 8 publications

Enabling sustainable construction in UK public procurement

Enabling sustainable construction in UK public procurement

Exploring the knowledge ‘base’ of practitioners in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects

Assessing the Value of Housing Schemes through Sustainable Return on Investment: A Path towards Sustainability-Led Evaluations?

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