Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative Exploration
Energy retrofitting of existing residential buildings has a great potential to achieve a sustainable future. One important way to reach this potential is to understand homeowners’ retrofit behaviors due to their crucial roles in retrofit adoption and retrofit effects. Despite many attempts, research...
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| description | Energy retrofitting of existing residential buildings has a great potential to achieve a sustainable future. One important way to reach this potential is to understand homeowners’ retrofit behaviors due to their crucial roles in retrofit adoption and retrofit effects. Despite many attempts, researchers and governments still know less about the holistic profile of homeowners’ retrofit behaviors, which brought little success in trigging renovation activities and achieving expected retrofit effects. This study tries to fill this research gap by a comprehensive review of the body of existing research. A keyword-based scientometric analysis was performed based on a set of 152 journal articles. By further refining keywords, main research domains pertaining to investment-decision-energy behaviors, policy instruments, retrofit types, construction & services, and methods & methodologies were mapped to show relevant research knowledge and research topics. Based on these research results, a further integrated framework was developed, which explains homeowners’ retrofit behaviors in a systematic way of cross-disciplinary knowledge interactions. Furthermore, implications for retrofit policies in existing buildings were provided. This study is useful for facilitating future research to deepen homeowners’ retrofit behaviors, and also provides valuable references for policy makers to successfully promote home energy retrofit. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bfd52a72ce6448e8a8211dbdff5a15752023-11-22T01:52:04ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092021-06-0111727310.3390/buildings11070273Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative ExplorationGuo Liu0Yongtao Tan1Zhijia Huang2School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan 243002, ChinaSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001, AustraliaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan 243002, ChinaEnergy retrofitting of existing residential buildings has a great potential to achieve a sustainable future. One important way to reach this potential is to understand homeowners’ retrofit behaviors due to their crucial roles in retrofit adoption and retrofit effects. Despite many attempts, researchers and governments still know less about the holistic profile of homeowners’ retrofit behaviors, which brought little success in trigging renovation activities and achieving expected retrofit effects. This study tries to fill this research gap by a comprehensive review of the body of existing research. A keyword-based scientometric analysis was performed based on a set of 152 journal articles. By further refining keywords, main research domains pertaining to investment-decision-energy behaviors, policy instruments, retrofit types, construction & services, and methods & methodologies were mapped to show relevant research knowledge and research topics. Based on these research results, a further integrated framework was developed, which explains homeowners’ retrofit behaviors in a systematic way of cross-disciplinary knowledge interactions. Furthermore, implications for retrofit policies in existing buildings were provided. This study is useful for facilitating future research to deepen homeowners’ retrofit behaviors, and also provides valuable references for policy makers to successfully promote home energy retrofit.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/11/7/273existing residential buildingsenergy retrofitknowledge mappingintegrative framework |
| spellingShingle | Guo Liu Yongtao Tan Zhijia Huang Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative Exploration Buildings existing residential buildings energy retrofit knowledge mapping integrative framework |
| title | Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative Exploration |
| title_full | Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative Exploration |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative Exploration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative Exploration |
| title_short | Knowledge Mapping of Homeowners’ Retrofit Behaviors: An Integrative Exploration |
| title_sort | knowledge mapping of homeowners retrofit behaviors an integrative exploration |
| topic | existing residential buildings energy retrofit knowledge mapping integrative framework |
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