Working with models: Social and material relations entangled with energy efficiency modelling in Sweden

Eidenskog, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.07.008

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“…Increasing the sample size by including more cases in Denmark and internationally could yield more nuanced insights that would be more applicable across a broader geographical context. Including an ethnographic analysis would also provide a valuable addition to this paper, considering that the scholarship concerning energy model utilization from that perspective is very scarce [72]. However, expanding the paper with ethnographic approach would require a new research design containing extensive participant observation and additional data collection.…”

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Too complicated and impractical? An exploratory study on the role of energy system models in municipal decision-making processes in Denmark

Amer

Gregg²,

Sperling

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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Section: Future Opportunitiesmentioning

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Too complicated and impractical? An exploratory study on the role of energy system models in municipal decision-making processes in Denmark

Amer

Gregg²,

Sperling

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Energy modelling is closely entangled with social and material practices and can black-box elements but also make them visible. To exemplify: energy models can show if the choice of a specific window type by the architect can live up to set energy efficiency goals [29]. This can create tensions between architectural designs goals and energy efficiency objectives, which can act as learning opportunities for all actors involved.…”

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Passive houses as affiliative objects: Investment calculations, energy modelling, and collaboration strategies of Swedish housing companies

Niskanen

Rohracher

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Based on the Vallda Heberg project and the Lambohov project, I argue that building energy model software is not only a simulation tool but also a communication tool useful for coordinating the building project between different professions. Such a tool might even help inexperienced developers learn about how material choices affect building energy behaviour (Eidenskog 2017). Improved communication could lead to the development of passive house networks and an environment facilitating these types of buildings.…”

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Mainstreaming av passivhus : En studie av energieffektiva bostadshus i Sverige

Niskanen

2018

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has shown that stabilizing the increase of global mean temperature below 2°C relative to pre-industrial levels entails a fundamental global challenge (IPCC 2014). With billions of people vulnerable and hundreds of millions at extreme risk from weather-related disasters, climate change poses a great threat to individuals as well as to social and political stability. Climate change has been described by Nobel peace prize winner Wangari Maathai as a "life or death" threat conducted in "a new global battlefield" (Vidal 2009:2). Continuing with business as usual is associated with unfathomable risks and great uncertainties for human life (IPCC 2014). Increased greenhouse gas emissions have been a major cause of the very large late 20th-century warming (Crowley 2000). The sources of these emissions are anthropogenic (i.e., human) activities. The industry sector (especially electricity and heat generation), agriculture, forestry, and other land use industries have contributed two-thirds of global emissions (IPCC 2015). Transportation contributes 14% and buildings contribute 6% of all emissions. In Sweden, 18% of greenhouse gas emissions comes from buildings, an amount equivalent to the transportation sector (Informationscentrum för hållbart byggande 2018). Clearly, a continuation of business as usual in the housing sector is not sustainable. According to leading advocates, a transition to low carbon housing will require very energy efficient buildings on a wide scale, both in developed and developing countries (International Energy Agency 2017). From a climate change perspective, efficient buildings are deemed to be crucial since they lower the overall demand To capture the interrelationships of technical and social elements in the process of mainstreaming, these interrelationships are studied as 'socio-technical' phenomena. A socio-technical perspective entails an approach to the construction and development of buildings emphasizing that technological choices, such as adopting passive house standards and practices, depend on how technologies are embedded in social, political, and economic organizations (Rohracher 2001). This means that institutions and technologies in the housing sector are understood to develop closely in parallel (Nykamp 2017), and advocates of energy efficient buildings adapt their strategies in line with changing social and technological circumstances in the housing sector (Guy & Shove 2000). In socio-technical research, a key interest is how emerging technologies, such as passive houses, co-evolve with institutional change. A study of mainstreaming as situates the thesis within previous research on sustainable buildings in general and passive houses in specific with a focus on socio-technical perspectives. The chapter presents strengths and weaknesses of previous research, how previous research is used, and what this thesis can contribute with in this context. Chapter 4: Theoretical framework presents the theoretical perspective...

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Working with models: Social and material relations entangled with energy efficiency modelling in Sweden

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Too complicated and impractical? An exploratory study on the role of energy system models in municipal decision-making processes in Denmark

Too complicated and impractical? An exploratory study on the role of energy system models in municipal decision-making processes in Denmark

Passive houses as affiliative objects: Investment calculations, energy modelling, and collaboration strategies of Swedish housing companies

Mainstreaming av passivhus : En studie av energieffektiva bostadshus i Sverige

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