A co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomes
<p>Energy consumption in buildings is a large contributor to global CO2 emissions. Renovations of existing buildings can reduce their impact by integrating technologies which increase efficiency or generate renewable energy on-site. Doing this well and at scale is a collective action problem,...
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| author | Killip, G Owen, A Morgan, E Topouzi, M |
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| description | <p>Energy consumption in buildings is a large contributor to global CO2 emissions. Renovations of existing buildings can reduce their impact by integrating technologies which increase efficiency or generate renewable energy on-site. Doing this well and at scale is a collective action problem, which transcends the agency of individual entrepreneurs.</p><p> This paper reports a cross-case comparison of four previous studies focused on low-energy renovation of housing, using a co-evolutionary framework in which five systems are mutually interdependent: ecosystems, technologies, user practices, business strategies, and institutions. Innovations across the five systems are described in terms of variations, selection pressures and transmission.</p><p> The analysis serves a dual purpose: to draw out common themes from the four previous studies, and to reflect on how well the co-evolutionary framework accounts for innovation in the particular field of housing renovation for low-energy outcomes. Business strategies emerge as an important (and often neglected) source of innovation. The framework generally accounts for innovation in this area quite well, although two important issues are a less easy fit: the use of energy (and other finite resources) is rather indirectly accounted for by the term ‘ecosystems’; and the complexity of interactions between multiple users, businesses and technologies is partly elided.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:fa005cc4-c573-4151-8a4e-bfdd46374ef62022-03-27T13:02:16ZA co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:fa005cc4-c573-4151-8a4e-bfdd46374ef6Symplectic Elements at OxfordSAGE Publications2018Killip, GOwen, AMorgan, ETopouzi, M<p>Energy consumption in buildings is a large contributor to global CO2 emissions. Renovations of existing buildings can reduce their impact by integrating technologies which increase efficiency or generate renewable energy on-site. Doing this well and at scale is a collective action problem, which transcends the agency of individual entrepreneurs.</p><p> This paper reports a cross-case comparison of four previous studies focused on low-energy renovation of housing, using a co-evolutionary framework in which five systems are mutually interdependent: ecosystems, technologies, user practices, business strategies, and institutions. Innovations across the five systems are described in terms of variations, selection pressures and transmission.</p><p> The analysis serves a dual purpose: to draw out common themes from the four previous studies, and to reflect on how well the co-evolutionary framework accounts for innovation in the particular field of housing renovation for low-energy outcomes. Business strategies emerge as an important (and often neglected) source of innovation. The framework generally accounts for innovation in this area quite well, although two important issues are a less easy fit: the use of energy (and other finite resources) is rather indirectly accounted for by the term ‘ecosystems’; and the complexity of interactions between multiple users, businesses and technologies is partly elided.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Killip, G Owen, A Morgan, E Topouzi, M A co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomes |
| title | A co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomes |
| title_full | A co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomes |
| title_fullStr | A co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomes |
| title_full_unstemmed | A co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomes |
| title_short | A co-evolutionary approach to understanding construction industry innovation in renovation practices for low carbon outcomes |
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