A Tool for Sourcing Sustainable Building Renovation: The Energy Efficiency Maturity Matrix

Christian Stenqvist,Per-Otto Bengtsson,Susanne Nielsen

doi:10.3390/su10051674

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: May 22, 2018
Citations: 4	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Lund University

Abstract

The success of sustainable building renovation is inevitably dependent on the capabilities of the involved stakeholders throughout the entire project. Therefore, any building client with intentions of sustainable building renovations must reflect on sourcing the adequate capabilities for a sustainable renovation project. The question in focus is: how to facilitate a sourcing strategy for energy-efficient sustainable building renovation and maintenance. This study on energy efficiency implementations shows that even in developed countries like Sweden, where energy efficiency is regulated by the EU, national legislation and other public policies, the municipal facilities management organizations need process guidance to navigate in decisions regarding in-house capabilities and collaboration with external service providers. A dialogue tool for the sourcing process, the energy efficiency maturity matrix, is developed to support future sourcing processes for energy-efficient buildings as a prominent part of the broader field of sustainable building renovation and maintenance. The future will show when building clients to a larger extent will embrace sourcing strategies instead of mainly focusing on specific technical improvements. The new International standards for facilities management (ISO18480 series) might support this change process, as it includes a sourcing approach, from a strategic level to an operational level, to add more value and to optimize costs.

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The residential and service sector, to which most of the building space belongs, accounts for almost 40% of the EU-28 final energy consumption [1]
The greater challenge, as partially addressed by the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) [3] and the preceding Energy Service Directive (ESD) [4], is how to achieve major improvements in energy performance in the existing building stock, which may be operational for decades or centuries to come
Unless this issue is well addressed through Energy Efficient Facilities Management (EEFM), creating a surge of renovations and daily operations that lead to considerable improvement in energy performance, the sector will fail to make the necessary contributions towards long-term energy-efficient and low carbon sustainable development with adverse effects on the economy, environment and social welfare

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The residential and service sector, to which most of the building space belongs, accounts for almost 40% of the EU-28 final energy consumption [1]. The greater challenge, as partially addressed by the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) [3] and the preceding Energy Service Directive (ESD) [4], is how to achieve major improvements in energy performance in the existing building stock, which may be operational for decades or centuries to come Unless this issue is well addressed through Energy Efficient Facilities Management (EEFM), creating a surge of renovations and daily operations that lead to considerable improvement in energy performance, the sector will fail to make the necessary contributions towards long-term energy-efficient and low carbon sustainable development with adverse effects on the economy, environment and social welfare. Providers of energy-efficient products and services need to be responsive to customer demands and create competitive offers and business models that overcome persistent market barriers [6]

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