Small, Beautiful, Yet Difficult: Energy Plus Renovation in Small Social Housing Companies
Social housing represents a particular challenge of creating sustainable buildings. Large portfolios of post second world war concrete blocks type of building is the epitome of this issue. They are in serious need of renovation to meet future demands of energy consumption and sustainability. This even involves the important aspect of social sustainability. At a time new energy producing renewable technologies represent important contributions to the mitigation of these challenges. This is also the case in Sweden. However, here, beneath the dominant agenda of suburbs to large cities, a series of small social housing company actually operate which have similar issues, yet receive far less attention. The aim of this contribution is to discuss challenges of carrying out energy plus renovation of small social housing companies in Sweden and to present a possible roadmap for meeting the challenges. The theoretical framework draw on conceptualisations of small organisations characteristics, building research on small clients and political science approaches to the role of regulation. The empirical material has been gathered through collaboration with one company and its network among other small housing companies in its area. Research collaboration extends over a year of study. The results show that the limited resources of small social housing companies has to be mitigated through developing a new financial model enabling the rent to stay stable, providing extra manpower in the purchasing process and a network for identifying energy producing and less consuming technologies for the renovation. A roadmap for carrying out renovation is suggested involving all phases of purchasing and operating renovated building blocks. The roadmap suggest moreover systematic involvement of tenants in the process.
Social housing energy renovation roadmap
Christian KOCH Anders LUTTEMAN
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
国际会议
2017世界可持续建筑环境大会(the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference)
香港
英文
635-640
2017-06-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）