TY - JOUR
T1 - In search of sustainable construction
T2 - the role of building environmental assessment methods as policies enforcing green building
AU - Leiringer, Roine
AU - Gottlieb, Stefan Christoffer
AU - Fang, Yan
AU - Mo, Xiaoyu
N1 - This work was supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (GRF: Project No. HKU 17250116).
PY - 2022/1/10
Y1 - 2022/1/10
N2 - Over the past 20 years, building environmental assessment methods (BEAMs) have been promoted as a means to achieve more sustainable and environmentally friendly (green) buildings, as well as more sustainable practices in the building process at large. These schemes have come to be considered as effective mechanisms to transform building markets and are seen to play a significant role in the mainstreaming of green building practices. In many countries, BEAMs are now used as policy instruments and are increasingly being mandated across a variety of public, but also private, sector projects. In this paper, we examine BEAMs as policy instruments and explore their potential to affect change in construction. Drawing on the theory of strategic action fields, and using the case of HK-BEAM, we discuss the origins, development and application of BEAMs and the limited impact that their mandate has on construction practice. The paper concludes with reflections on the need to further our understanding of how the construction sector works and who has the power, and the will, to make changes in construction practice happen.
AB - Over the past 20 years, building environmental assessment methods (BEAMs) have been promoted as a means to achieve more sustainable and environmentally friendly (green) buildings, as well as more sustainable practices in the building process at large. These schemes have come to be considered as effective mechanisms to transform building markets and are seen to play a significant role in the mainstreaming of green building practices. In many countries, BEAMs are now used as policy instruments and are increasingly being mandated across a variety of public, but also private, sector projects. In this paper, we examine BEAMs as policy instruments and explore their potential to affect change in construction. Drawing on the theory of strategic action fields, and using the case of HK-BEAM, we discuss the origins, development and application of BEAMs and the limited impact that their mandate has on construction practice. The paper concludes with reflections on the need to further our understanding of how the construction sector works and who has the power, and the will, to make changes in construction practice happen.
KW - Building environmental assessment methods
KW - Construction reform
KW - Industry self-regulation
KW - Policy instruments
KW - Sustainable construction
KW - Building environmental assessment methods
KW - Construction reform
KW - Industry self-regulation
KW - Policy instruments
KW - Sustainable construction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122678735&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01446193.2021.2021259
DO - 10.1080/01446193.2021.2021259
M3 - Journal article
VL - 40
SP - 104
EP - 122
JO - Construction Management and Economics
JF - Construction Management and Economics
SN - 0144-6193
IS - 2
ER -