Oliver, A and Pearl, D S (2018) Rethinking sustainability frameworks in neighbourhood projects: A process-based approach. Building Research & Information, 46(5), pp. 513-527. ISSN 0961-3218
Abstract
A process-based approach is used to examine the deployment of two neighbourhood-scale sustainability assessment systems and their tools in two European cities. It explores how these sustainability assessment systems and their tools are contextualized within a larger design and planning process by considering how stakeholders collaborate, how they set design problems, how they make decisions and how they propose design solutions in the early design phases. Specifically, using interviews conducted with key project actors in Malmö, Sweden, and Barcelona, Spain, this paper examines how the sustainability assessment systems in each respective case study were framed, and how this framing impacted upon the design process. A key finding is that how sustainability assessment systems are framed has just as significant an impact as the nature of the tools, especially on the processes entailed. Community participation can have a strong, positive impact on the design process and on outcomes. The case studies confirm that context and players cannot be divorced from tools.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BREEAM-C; collaboration; community participation; ecological urbanism; neighbourhood; planning; stakeholders; sustainability assessment systems |
| Index terms: | community participation, Spain, Sweden, BREEAM accreditation, design phase, planning process, case study, framing, design process, collaboration, sustainability assessment, urbanism, interview |
| Subjects: | conceptual models, participation process, data collection methods, Geography, design methods, project controls, environmental policy, professional practice, cities and urban places, management, sustainability assessment |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Stakeholder Management, Time Control, Urban Studies, Geographical Context, Organizational Design, Sustainability, Design Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCE |
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