MACRO-LEVEL CHANGES: A VOLUNTARY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM TO INFLUENCE THE DANISH BUILDING INDUSTRY

IF 0.7 4区艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE

Journal of Green Building Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.3992/jgb.17.4.19

Amalie Palme Hammershøy, P. S. Nielsen, Nanna Brøgger Overgård

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Abstract

The challenge of quantifying sustainability is continuously debated in the building industry. There is an increased need for quantitative solutions to be developed for measuring and comparing performance. The Danish government has proposed a voluntary sustainability program to lift the bottom of the industry with regard to sustainability performance. This study evaluates the possibilities of increasing the sustainability reference level in the building industry based on expert interviews. The study was framed upon the multi-level perspective as a theory to describe the transition to sustainability. The results indicated that existing knowledge and experience within the topics of the regulatory changes is high in the industry. Therefore, the impact of the changes would not be very effective if they are not sufficiently innovative or demanding. Regarding the effect of the voluntary sustainability program, it was found that the program is not very ambitious and likely to only have an impact on companies with a lower level of ambition in terms of sustainable initiatives. The hope, however, is that it will keep raising the level of sustainability.

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宏观层面的变化:一项影响丹麦建筑业的自愿可持续性计划

量化可持续性的挑战一直是建筑行业争论的焦点。现在越来越需要开发定量的解决方案来衡量和比较绩效。丹麦政府提出了一项自愿的可持续发展计划，以提升该行业在可持续发展绩效方面的底线。本研究在专家访谈的基础上，评估了提高建筑行业可持续性参考水平的可能性。本研究以多层次视角作为理论框架来描述向可持续发展的过渡。结果表明，现有的知识和经验的主题内的监管变化是高的行业。因此，如果没有足够的创新或要求，变革的影响将不会非常有效。关于自愿可持续发展计划的影响，我们发现该计划不是很雄心勃勃，可能只对那些在可持续发展举措方面雄心较低的公司产生影响。然而，希望在于它将继续提高可持续性水平。

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Journal of Green Building ARCHITECTURE-

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2.30

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7.10%

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期刊介绍： The purpose of the Journal of Green Building is to present the very best peer-reviewed research in green building design, construction, engineering, technological innovation, facilities management, building information modeling, and community and urban planning. The Research section of the Journal of Green Building publishes peer-reviewed articles in the fields of engineering, architecture, construction, construction management, building science, facilities management, landscape architecture, interior design, urban and community planning, and all disciplines related to the built environment. In addition, the Journal of Green Building offers the following sections: Industry Corner that offers applied articles of successfully completed sustainable buildings and landscapes; New Directions in Teaching and Research that offers guidance from teachers and researchers on incorporating innovative sustainable learning into the curriculum or the likely directions of future research; and Campus Sustainability that offers articles from programs dedicated to greening the university campus.