A complex system perspective of sustainable, green innovation in housing planning processes and housing investment
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet - Institutionen för skogens produkter |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 470 000 |
| Project duration | September 2013 - January 2014 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
In our era of climate change, the aim of this research was to assess the lessons learned from innovative actors which enables changes in building investments behaviours that reduce both the climatic footprint of the construction process as well as the life cycle energy needs of the building. We have assessed the lessons learned from the Scottish public procurement and building sector acotrs - and two publically owned property management organisations in Sweden.
Results and expected effects
Our key result is proactive procurement approaches can avoid and even reverse Sweden´s escallating building costs. Innovative procurement approaches also mean property management organisations can benefit from lower lifecycle costs. Nonetheless, organisations ought to engage in widespread dialogues with a diverse range of supplying actors in order to source from innovative suppliers and prepare the basis for suppliers to innovate. These findings can be used by publically owned property management organisations to develop their organisations and procurement practices.
Approach and implementation
Our research stages were to: 1.Assess the building procurement practices of two publically owned property management organisations 2.Conduct a desk survey, phone interviews and study visit to Scotland, where building approaches predominately make use of factories to produce timber building elements 3. Develop an action research plan for a property management organisation to cope with a lack of suppliers of cost effective, green building solutions. This involves dialogue conference approaches to stimulate actors to jointly develop new, mutually beneficial, ways of working.