Use of wood products in multi-storey residential buildings: views of Swedish actors and suggested measures for an increased use

Markström, Emillia; Kuzman, Manja Kitek; Bystedt, Anders; Sandberg, Dick

doi:10.1080/17480272.2019.1600164

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“…Other stakeholders Peters et al 2020;Stern et al 2018;Jones et al 2018;Gosselin et al 2018;Hurmekoski et al 2015;Vihemäki et al 2020;Bysheim and Nyrud 2009;Mahapatra et al 2012;Hemström et al 2017;Markström et al 2019;Toppinen et al 2019b Institutional changes…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multi-party environment, loose-couplings (lack of stable partnerships & collaboration); Limited number of industry actors; Mismatch in influence and material preferences among stakeholders; Conflict of interest; Lack of collaboration / co-operation; Fierce competition Developers; Project actors; Other stakeholders Toppinen et al 2019a;Riggio et al 2020;Franzini et al 2018;Markström et al 2019;Toppinen et al 2019b Mahapatra et al 2012;Riggio et al 2020;Mallo and Espinoza 2015;Roos et al 2010;Markström et al 2018;Franzini et al 2018;Markström et al 2019 Institutional changes…”

Section: Competitiveness Of Wmc (Especially Technical Infrastructure);mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

Jussila¹,

Nagy²,

Lähtinen³

et al. 2022

Silva Fenn.

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Climate change sets high pressures on the construction industry to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Due to the carbon storage properties and potential to use renewable resources efficiently, wooden multi-storey construction (WMC) is an interesting alternative for the construction industry to enhance sustainable development combined with the aesthetic and well-being benefits of wood perceived among many consumers. For forest industry firms, industrial wood construction is a possibility to seek for business opportunities and bring socio-economic benefits for local economies. Despite positive drivers, WMC still remains a niche even in the forest-rich countries.The purpose of our study is to add understanding on the WMC market development by conducting a systematic literature analysis on international peer-reviewed studies from the past 20 years. Our special focus is on the role of WMC in the housing markets studied from the perspectives of the demand, supply and local governance factors. As specific aims, we 1) synthesize the key barriers and enabling factors for the WMC market growth; 2) identify the actors addressed in the existing studies connected to the WMC market development, and 3) summarize research methods and analytical approaches used in the previous studies. As a systematic method to make literature searches in Web of Science and Scopus for years 2000â2020, we employed PRISMA guidelines. By using pre-determined keywords, our searches resulted in a sample of 696 articles, of which 42 full articles were after selection procedure included in-depth content analysis. Our results showed cost-efficiency gains from industrialized prefabrication and perceived sustainability benefits by consumers and architects enabled a WMC market diffusion. The lack of experiences on the WMC, and path dependencies to use concrete and steel continue to be key barriers for increased WMC. Although our research scope was the global WMC market development, most of the literature concerned the Nordic region. The key actors covered in the literature were businesses (e.g., contractors, manufacturers and architects) involved in the wood construction value-chains, while residents and actors in the local governance were seldomly addressed. Currently, case studies, the use of qualitative data sets and focus on the Nordic region dominate the literature. This hinders the generalizability of findings in different regional contexts. In the future, more research is needed on how sustainability-driven wood construction value-chains are successfully shaping up in different geographical regions, and how they could challenge the dominant concrete-based construction regime.

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Section: Competitiveness Of Wmc (Especially Technical Infrastructure);mentioning

confidence: 99%

Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

Jussila¹,

Nagy²,

Lähtinen³

et al. 2022

Silva Fenn.

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“…The results in this study can offer some guidance to the environmental impact studies of the other zero energy or low energy building projects in Sweden. Concrete is the most popular prefabricated material for multi-dwelling buildings in Sweden [61]. By choosing the concrete frame building as the target case, the results of the study can be applied to the majority of prefabricated multi-dwelling buildings.…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of Different Prefabricated Rates for Building Construction

Wang

Sinha

2021

Buildings

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In recent years, Sweden has promoted prefabricated buildings supporting the increasing of prefabricated rates in buildings with precast components, in order to reduce the environmental problems caused by the construction sector. This study, focusing on the construction activities, examines how the increasing prefabricated rate could influence the environmental impacts of the construction sector. This study conducts a cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment (LCA) of a reference building with a prefabricated rate of 26% in the Stockholm Royal Seaport, and compares nine scenarios with prefabricated rates, ranging from 6% to 96%. The results indicate the water footprint decreases, but the total energy footprint and carbon footprint increase as the prefabricated rate increases. Among other impacts, terrestrial ecotoxicity shows the biggest increase with an increase of the prefabricated rate. This study reveals that material extraction is the largest influencing factor, causing a water footprint when the prefabricated rate increases. The impact changes in the energy footprint, carbon footprint, and terrestrial ecotoxicity, and are primarily determined by transport and are sensitive to transport distance and vehicle types.

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“…In the literature, many studies have been carried out on the ecological, technological, economic, and social aspects of engineered wood products and various technical solutions in buildings [22]; while there is a relatively limited number of studies concentrating on the EWPs for construction from the stakeholders' perspective (e.g. [11,16,[20][21][22][23][24][25]).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions, Attitudes, and Interests of Architects in the Use of Engineered Wood Products for Construction: A Review

Ilgın¹,

Karjalainen²

2022

Engineered Wood Products for Construction

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Increased use of engineered wood products (EWPs) and thus decreasing share of non-biobased materials such as concrete reduces the impact of buildings on the climate by mitigating the primary energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in construction. A construction project includes many parameters, where the selection of construction material is one of the crucial decisions with its numerous criteria e.g. cost, strength, environmental impact. Furthermore, this complicated process includes different parties such as architects, engineers, contractors. Architects are among the key decision-makers in material selection, and their perceptions influence what they propose and hence an increase in wood construction. In literature, many studies have been conducted on the technological, ecological, economic aspects of EWPs, while limited studies are focusing on EWPs for construction from stakeholders’ perspective. In this chapter, architects’ attitudes towards the use of EWPs in buildings were scrutinized.

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Use of wood products in multi-storey residential buildings: views of Swedish actors and suggested measures for an increased use

Cited by 17 publications

References 37 publications

Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

Life Cycle Assessment of Different Prefabricated Rates for Building Construction

Perceptions, Attitudes, and Interests of Architects in the Use of Engineered Wood Products for Construction: A Review

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