Re-interpreting Regulations: Architects as Intermediaries for Low-carbon Buildings

Fischer, Jan; Guy, Simon

doi:10.1177/0042098009344228

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“…Inter-organizational governance: middle-out change Inter-organizational activities, particularly between dissimilar groups (e.g., landlords and tenants), are often conceptualized as a space where 'intermediaries' serve an important role (Fischer & Guy, 2009;Moss, 2009;Moss, Medd, Guy, & Marvin, 2009). Janda and Parag (2013) and Parag and Janda (2014) augment this literature with new perspectives on 'middle actors', including designers, building professionals and commercial real estate (property) companies.…”

Section: Corporate Environmental Governance (Ceg) and Voluntary Envirmentioning

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The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

Janda

Bright

Patrick

et al. 2016

Building Research & Information

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Section: Corporate Environmental Governance (Ceg) and Voluntary Envirmentioning

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The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

Janda

Bright

Patrick

et al. 2016

Building Research & Information

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“…Their role in interpreting, applying and influencing low carbon building regulation in the UK has been recognised [20]. We note, however, that for much domestic retrofit activity, this design and professional expertise is rarely drawn upon and although an architectural technician may draw up plans to fulfil local permitting requirements, much of the design detail often emerges through the construction and installation process.…”

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Outside influence – Some effects of retrofit installers and advisors on energy behaviours in households

Owen

Mitchell

2015

Indoor and Built Environment

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We analyse qualitative data from home energy retrofit projects in England, looking beyond the boundaries of the building and its design for human behavioural influences on home energy use. We recognise that energy use is not solely determined by the decisions of building users or designers, but that intermediaries involved in energy retrofit may also be influential. Our focus is on retrofit which encompasses a range of changes to existing buildings to alter energy use.Decisions to incorporate new energy technologies into the home (both energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies), and how these technologies are then used, are shaped by the advice and action of energy efficiency advisers and energy 2 technology installers (intermediaries). Understanding the nature of this influence, and how it might be directed to increase energy efficient behaviours, is an overlooked opportunity. We found that influence was greatest at the pre-installation stage, and that influence which could be exercised post-installation was not realised. We conclude that by recognising how the role and influence of intermediaries varies at each stage of the retrofit process, policy and action can be identified to enhance the contribution intermediaries can make to changing behaviours and reducing domestic energy use. [197 words]

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“…However, discussions about climate adaptation-as opposed to, for instance, highly standardized responses-may be an example of "conflict about professional remit … hidden within apparent conflict over technical issues" (Fischer andGuy, 2009, page 2590).…”

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Concern and Confidence. Architects Making Sense of Climate Adaptation

Tøsse

2014

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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Drawing on the analytical concept of 'sensemaking' as defined by Weick [1995, Sensemaking in Organizations (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA)], and on scholarship concerning discourses on architect identity and the regulatory context of architecture, in this paper I examine how architects make sense of the issue of climate adaptation.I found that discourses on architects' identity and context appeared to shape the way climate adaptation was made sense of, rather than the other way around. Also, architect identity and contextual factors were more important in architects' sensemaking than features of the climate adaptation issue itself. Most important among the identity-related element of architects' sensemaking was the conception of architects' expertise as holistic-encompassing both aesthetic-creative and technical-craft-related dimensions. Among contextual factors in architects' sensemaking, national building regulations and the industry's focus on cost efficiency were the most central.

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Re-interpreting Regulations: Architects as Intermediaries for Low-carbon Buildings

Cited by 77 publications

References 23 publications

The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

Outside influence – Some effects of retrofit installers and advisors on energy behaviours in households

Concern and Confidence. Architects Making Sense of Climate Adaptation

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