Barriers to domestic retrofit: learning from past home improvement experiences
Barriers to domestic retrofit: learning from past home improvement experiences
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家庭装修的障碍:借鉴过去的家庭装修经验
DOI:
10.1002/9781118273463.ch14
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
V. Mitchell
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作者:
Becky Mallaband;V. Haines;V. Mitchell
If the UK is to meet its carbon reduction targets, it will be necessary to retrofit energy
saving measures into the majority of homes. With approximately three quarters of the
houses that will exist in 2050 already built, this presents an enormous task. Whilst
retrofit of social housing can be undertaken at scale, encouraging people who are owner
occupiers to make changes to their homes presents more of a challenge. Within this
owner occupier group there are 4.5million homes that are also hard to treat, having solid
walls, and so many of the retrofit measures available will not be suitable. This paper
reports case study research based on 20 UK owner occupier households. It presents the
results of a thematic analysis based on semi–structured interviews with the 34 adult
members of the households that explored the home improvement experiences of the
participants from when they brought the house. The barriers that deter people from
making improvements to their homes and therefore implementing energy efficiency
measures are presented. The findings highlight a range of interrelated and sometimes
rather intangible barriers to making home improvements to older, hard to treat
properties. It is essential for these sometimes subtle issues to be understood in order for
policy makers to suitably engage home owners in taking up energy saving measures and
to inform the requirements for skilled professionals and their involvement in the
process.
DOI:
10.1504/jdr.2012.046138
发表时间:
2012
期刊:
J. of Design Research
影响因子:
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作者:
Haines V
通讯作者:
Haines V