Developing a roadmap to overcome barriers to energy efficiency in buildings using best worst method

Gupta, Parmarth; Anand, S.; Gupta, H.C.

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2017.02.005

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“…Scholars have used this method since then to identify enablers of technological innovation in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India [31], utilizing this method for the supplier selection life cycle [32], to evaluate the external forces affecting the sustainability of the oil and gas supply chain [33], or even wielding this tool in order to develop a roadmap to overcome barriers to energy efficiency in buildings [34]. Recently, intuitionistic fuzzy multiplicative BWM has been proposed by [35] to extend the method's use to uncertain circumstances.…”

Section: Best-worst Methodology (Bwm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Novel Hybrid Approach for Technology Selection in the Information Technology Industry

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High-tech companies are rapidly growing in the world. Research and development (hereafter R&D) department strength is the main asset that allows a firm to achieve a competitive advantage in high-tech businesses. The allocated budget to this sector is finite; thus, integration, human resource, risk and budget limitations should be considered to choose the most valuable project in the best portion of time. This paper investigates a case study from a high-tech company in Iran to prioritize the most attractive technologies for the R&D department. The case consists of twenty three technology options and the goal is to find the most attractive projects to sort them out for implementation in the R&D department. In this research, scholars proposed the best-worst method (henceforth BWM) to find the weight of the criteria of the attractive technologies in first step and utilize the newly developed method total area based on orthogonal vectors (henceforward TAOV) to sort the selected technologies based upon the identified criteria. Project integration is one of the least-noticed subjects in scientific papers; therefore, the researchers presented a zero or one linear programming (ZOLP) model to optimize and schedule the implementation procedure on the project risk, budget and time limitation simultaneously. The results indicate that starting few but attractive projects in the first years and postponing the rest to the future, helps a firm to manage funds and gain profit with the least amount of risk.

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A Novel Hybrid Approach for Technology Selection in the Information Technology Industry

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“…[37,38] The exacerbation of energy is not tightly associated with the daily life quality of residents. [39,40] The concepts of green lifestyle and green consumption are not fully popularized. [4,40] There is no strong need for high-performance buildings from home-buyers' perspectives.…”

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“…The performance of building materials cannot meet the strictest requirement in the market. [39] The promotion of insulation performance of building materials contradicts its promotion of the fire-preventing performance. [41] The adoption of high-performance building materials leads to a great incremental cost.…”

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Major Barriers to the New Residential Building Energy-Efficiency Promotion in China: Frontlines’ Perceptions

Zhu

Qin

2019

Energies

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The energy-efficiency promotion of new residential buildings in China has achieved great progress in the past three decades. However, the expected policy outcomes cannot be fully achieved due to the barriers in the policy-making and implementation process. Whereas governments play a critical role in policy formation, perceptions of stakeholders involved in the building life cycle and the industrial value chain (such as developers, design institutes and relevant material manufactures) are fundamental to the successful implementation. To collect and identify the barriers of significant influence on the industry from stakeholders’ perspectives, this paper used a nationwide institutes’ questionnaire to collect stakeholders’ voices regarding the barriers, the corresponding popularity and the severity. All the barriers were categorized according to institutions’ scorings through cluster analysis. The relationships between barriers were also analyzed according to the framework based on policy cycle and policy environment. Results indicated that the core problem is the ineffectiveness translating energy savings into benefits and profits. Accordingly, three major barriers were identified, namely the (1) unsatisfied policy design and implementation; (2) stakeholders’ lack of implementation capacity in developing and constructing high-performance new residential building projects and adopting relevant technologies; and (3) insufficient legalization of relevant market. Other identified barriers either were those not agreed by all institutions, or those could be eliminated easily after the removal of the above three barriers.

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“…Most of the literature studies refer to the energy efficiency gap in the industrial sectors such as textile [44], household [38], paper [42], ceramics [31], and construction [15] industries. Financial matters related with investing into energy efficiency are also discussed in several studies [4,9,34,36,43].…”

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The Energy Efficiency Gap in Turkish Maritime Transportation

Konur

Bayraktar

Pamık

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Polish Maritime Research

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The Turkish Merchant Shipping Industry has recently witnessed an increasing awareness of the importance to minimize environmental pollution and fuel oil consumption. Together with certain non-governmental organizations and media concerns about environmental protection, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has been strict on controlling undesirable effects on the environment and, consequently, forcing shipping companies to minimize their emissions. Besides, today’s highly advanced technology companies over the world have developed various innovative systems that can be utilized to minimize carbon emission, thus giving assurance to relevant investors that their investments are most likely to turn out well with a considerable financial gain in the short or long term. Despite all such favorable developments, in a general look, shipping companies seem reluctant in making use of technologies providing efficiency in energy consumption. This reluctance has eventually brought about the term “Energy Efficiency Gap”. This research conducts a questionnaire, created by Acciaro et al. [1], among the shipping companies in Turkey. 20 respondent companies, who represent 26 percent of the Turkish owned merchant marine fleet of over 1000 gross tonnage in terms of deadweight cargo capacity, participated in the research. The Pearson correlation analysis was used, and interpretations were made according to the obtained statistical values. The aim of the research was to identify reasons and points restraining the use of new technologies regarding energy efficiency, as well as to develop proposals for the innovators in this field about how to overcome this handicap concerning technical and managerial aspects of gaining energy efficiency.

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Developing a roadmap to overcome barriers to energy efficiency in buildings using best worst method

Cited by 144 publications

References 73 publications

A Novel Hybrid Approach for Technology Selection in the Information Technology Industry

A Novel Hybrid Approach for Technology Selection in the Information Technology Industry

Major Barriers to the New Residential Building Energy-Efficiency Promotion in China: Frontlines’ Perceptions

The Energy Efficiency Gap in Turkish Maritime Transportation

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