Barriers and drivers of sustainable building adoption and influencing factor dynamics: A systematic review and meta-analysis

IF 16.3 1区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI:10.1016/j.rser.2025.116361

Dilshi Dharmarathna , Victor Bunster , Peter Graham

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A holistic and collaborative approach is urgently needed to decarbonise the building sector and achieve Net Zero Carbon (NZC) targets in alignment with the Paris Agreement. What factors enable or hinder sustainable building (SB) from becoming mainstream practice? In response, this study conducted a systematic literature review and meta-analysis, which included a content analysis and influencing factor dynamics analysis of 49 high-quality articles. 60 barriers and 69 drivers of SB were identified and categorized them into seven groups informed by prior studies and the “Race to Zero Built Environment System Map”: Government related, Social related, Financial related, Technical related, Technology related, Knowledge related, and Environmental related. Based on the mean citation index, the three most significant barrier categories limiting SB include Financial/economy, Social/societal/cultural and Knowledge/training/research. The most significant driver categories enabling SB were identified as Knowledge/training/research, Social/societal/cultural and Technical/professional/market. Temporal analysis presented the evolution of the barrier and drivers of SB over the years.

Pareto analysis highlighted the most significant barriers and drivers within each category. Notably, this study used statistical analyses to explore and map associations between SB barriers and drivers, as well as the built environment stakeholders, socio economic statuses, and geographic locations. Furthermore, this study highlighted potential theoretical, practical and policy related intervention points and implications for mitigation measures. This in-depth, holistic and integrated understanding of barriers and drivers of SB serves as an informative tool to the research community and future policy development. This study uniquely integrates Pareto analysis, temporal mapping, with stakeholder and contextual influential factor association analysis to prioritize and relationally map the dynamics of SB barriers and drivers.

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可持续建筑采用的障碍和驱动因素及其影响因素动力学：系统回顾和元分析

迫切需要一种整体和协作的方法来实现建筑行业的脱碳，并根据《巴黎协定》实现净零碳（NZC）目标。什么因素促使或阻碍可持续建筑成为主流实践？为此，本研究对49篇高质量文章进行了系统的文献综述和meta分析，包括内容分析和影响因素动态分析。根据前人的研究和“奔向零建筑环境系统地图”，本文确定了60个障碍和69个驱动因素，并将其分为7类：政府相关、社会相关、金融相关、技术相关、技术相关、知识相关和环境相关。基于平均被引索引，三个最重要的障碍类别分别是金融/经济、社会/社会/文化和知识/培训/研究。最重要的驱动因素类别是知识/培训/研究、社会/社会/文化和技术/专业/市场。时间分析显示了多年来SB的屏障和驱动因素的演变。帕累托分析强调了每个类别中最重要的障碍和驱动因素。值得注意的是，本研究使用统计分析来探索和绘制SB障碍与驱动因素、建筑环境利益相关者、社会经济地位和地理位置之间的关联。此外，本研究强调了与缓解措施有关的潜在理论、实践和政策干预点及其影响。本文对生物合成的障碍和驱动因素进行了深入、全面和综合的理解，为研究界和未来的政策制定提供了信息工具。本研究独特地将帕累托分析、时间映射、利益相关者和上下文影响因素关联分析结合起来，对SB障碍和驱动因素的动态进行优先排序和关系映射。

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 工程技术-能源与燃料

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31.20

自引率

5.70%

发文量

1055

审稿时长

62 days

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