2013
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2013.838212
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Understanding and actioning BRE environmental assessment method: a socio-technical approach

Abstract: The following research applies a socio-technical approach to an original study of the role of BRE environmental assessment method (BREEAM) in sustainable building practice. The primary objective is to gain insight into what facilitates and what weakens professional associations to implement a sustainability agenda in a building project. It focuses on understanding different sets of meaning which underlie engagement with BREEAM and how BREEAM is actioned. To do this, the research framework draws on social netwo… Show more

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“…Actors are any unit of two: e.g., an individual to an organization, to a company, to a patent; the relationship formed between two actors is a link, a dyadic characteristic that exists when both actors maintain mutual connection [19]. For Spinks [20], actors can refer to SNA as a strategic viewpoint to take "proactive measures to strengthen network ties," voicing their norms, ideals, and opinions with their effect over others. Similarly, Dale and Newman [21] believe that the lack in both coherent dialogue and an ethos of sustainable development among stakeholders (i.e., the "gridlock") can be mitigated via key individuals who connect different members of the network.…”
Section: Social Network Analysis and Community Organizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Actors are any unit of two: e.g., an individual to an organization, to a company, to a patent; the relationship formed between two actors is a link, a dyadic characteristic that exists when both actors maintain mutual connection [19]. For Spinks [20], actors can refer to SNA as a strategic viewpoint to take "proactive measures to strengthen network ties," voicing their norms, ideals, and opinions with their effect over others. Similarly, Dale and Newman [21] believe that the lack in both coherent dialogue and an ethos of sustainable development among stakeholders (i.e., the "gridlock") can be mitigated via key individuals who connect different members of the network.…”
Section: Social Network Analysis and Community Organizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Essentially this indicates that rating systems are not equally accessible to all neighborhoods and they privilege localities, or groups that have greater financial and political resources to invest in them [60]. This restricts projects from certification that would otherwise have been sustainable [61]. Of the 370 LEED-ND applications submitted for the pilot programme in 2009, only 238 could afford the costs associated with accreditation and the other 138 projects rescinded their applications [62].…”
Section: What This Means For Urban Regenerationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the rating calculation methods are explicit, the interpretation of these ratings is subjective, and, the way these are understood is not consistent (Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008). However, there is a market tendency to consider buildings with high ratings for environmental performance as sustainable (Spinks, 2015;Van de Wetering and Wyatt, 2011), and, typically, a prime real estate (Rydin, 2016). The benefit of environmental ratings and the inferred "green value" to investors and developers has been investigated in literature since the turn of the century, with occupier perceptions coming more to the fore in recent years.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%