Potential Solutions to Common Barriers Experienced during the Delivery of Building Renovations for Improved Energy Performance: Literature Review and Case Study

Cattano, Corey; Valdes-Vasquez, Rodolfo; Plumblee, Jeffery M.; Klotz, Leidy

doi:10.1061/(asce)ae.1943-5568.0000126

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“…The world is taken to be very complex, problematical, and mysterious. However, according to Checkland (2000), the process of inquiry into it, is assumed that, can itself be organized as a learning system. Thus, the use of the word 'system' is no longer applied to the world, it is instead applied to the process of our dealing with the world.…”

Section: Hard and Soft Systems Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the use of the word 'system' is no longer applied to the world, it is instead applied to the process of our dealing with the world. It is this shift of systemicity (or 'systemness') from the world to the process of inquiry into the world which is the crucial intellectual distinction between the two fundamental forms of systems thinking, 'hard' and 'soft' (Checkland, 2000). Systems thinking exploit a variety of methods that can be distincted into hard systems and soft systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…BPIE (2011) reported the existing barriers in this context including headlines such as 'financial', 'institutional & administrative', 'awareness, advice & skills' and 'separation of expenditure and benefit' (these have been elaborated further in section 2.6). Further, a list of five main constraints that building renovation projects face from pre-retrofit to post-retrofit stages were explored by Cattano et al (2013), including:…”

Section: A Brief Description Of the Current Barriers In A Building Rementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) was developed by Checkland in the 1970s as a strategy for handling complex problems, including those involving socio-technical systems (Checkland et al, 1999). Instead of being based upon the paradigm of "optimization", it is rather founded on the paradigm of "learning".…”

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“…Instead of being based upon the paradigm of "optimization", it is rather founded on the paradigm of "learning". The original methodology can be described as a seven-stage process of analysis which uses the concept of a human activity system as a means of getting from "finding out" about a situation to "taking action" to improve the situation (Checkland et al, 1999). The essence of stages 1 and 2 is to find out what the problem is.…”

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A multi-methodology and sustainability-supporting framework for implementation and assessment of a holistic building renovation: Implementation and assessment of a holistic sustainable building renovation

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Future building renovation concerns more holistic perspectives related to the sustainability seen in a wider range of objectives/criteria facilitated by the renovation scenarios. Renovation should be a means of improving and developing buildings to meet the needs and challenges of the future and of making homeowners and tenants less vulnerable due to rising energy costs in the future. There is a great potential for reducing energy consumption in existing buildings. However, that does not mean compromising on the quality and architectural values that make the buildings special. Therefore, existing buildings cannot simply be renovated, but must undergo a deep transformation to comply with wider range of objectives/criteria. That includes and addresses the "hard" objectives/criteria (quantitative/measurable criteria such as energy consumption or energy generation) and the "soft" objectives/criteria (qualitative/immeasurable criteria such as spatial quality) in parallel. These objectives both can be achieved, if holistic renovation scenarios are generated each time the buildings are renovated by focus on addressing both the mentioned objectives/criteria. In this framework, the major difference between a deep building renovation and an ordinary one is a commitment to a holistic approach in which objectives/criteria are targeted early in the design stages and subsequently are considered for their interdependence throughout sustainability perspectives.A review of recent research has revealed that the present efforts on sustainable objectives fulfilment in renovation projects are not sufficient. It demonstrates compounding the typical challenges of a sustainable retrofitting from theory to implement stages is lack of an appropriate design methodology. It should take into account retrofitting projects initially in order to interact with the different stakeholders and then to embark on the sustainability objectives/criteria in its full sense. It should assist to identify, manage, and evaluate the holistic objectives among various alternative retrofitting solutions during the early design stages. In this perspective, the present thesis has been developed according to the following objectives: a) It primarily considers building renovation as a complex messy/wicked problem. As such, it gives details on how combinations of methods that are parts of SSM (Soft Systems Methodologies) and MCDM (Multi Criteria Decision Making Methods) are able to cope with its complexity. It consequently develops a methodology, which is entitled Holistic Multi-methodology for Building Renovation -HMSR. The HMSR serve as a means to structure retrofitting problems in accordance with the sustainability in its full sense to support the decision-making and help to develop most appropriate retrofitting scenarios. b) It addresses a new simplified holistic sustainability decision-making support framework, which applies to the structures of the built environment for building renovation projects. The developed framework can be applied during differe...

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Section: Hard and Soft Systems Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Hard and Soft Systems Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Brief Description Of the Current Barriers In A Building Rementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Strategic Assumptions Surfacing and Testing (Sast) (Based Onmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Strategic Assumptions Surfacing and Testing (Sast) (Based Onmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Simulating Energy Renovation Towards Climate Neutrality. Digital Workflows and Tools for Life Cycle Assessment of Collective Housing in Portugal and Sweden

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Potential Solutions to Common Barriers Experienced during the Delivery of Building Renovations for Improved Energy Performance: Literature Review and Case Study

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

A multi-methodology and sustainability-supporting framework for implementation and assessment of a holistic building renovation: Implementation and assessment of a holistic sustainable building renovation

A multi-methodology and sustainability-supporting framework for implementation and assessment of a holistic building renovation: Implementation and assessment of a holistic sustainable building renovation

Simulating Energy Renovation Towards Climate Neutrality. Digital Workflows and Tools for Life Cycle Assessment of Collective Housing in Portugal and Sweden

An approach towards sustainable renovation—A tool for decision support in early project stages

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