Akotia, J;
Opoku, A;
Egbu, C;
Fortune, C;
(2016)
Exploring the knowledge 'base' of practitioners in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects.
Construction Economics and Building
, 16
(2)
pp. 14-26.
10.5130/AJCEB.v16i2.4892.
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Abstract
In recent years, sustainable regeneration has been recognised as being of major economic and social concern in the world. In the UK for instance, government has initiated a number of policies and evaluation methods to deal with some of the environmental problems associated with regeneration projects. However, the post construction evaluation of these projects has often resulted in them being seen as not achieving their set objectives. Attempts aimed at evaluating the impact of sustainability by built environment practitioners have primarily been limited to their assessment of the projects’ potential environmental impacts, with the associated socio-economic impacts being neglected. There has not been any well-defined built environment research that has been able to deal holistically with the broader issues of sustainability in terms of benefits/impacts of the regeneration projects to the communities concerned. The findings of an exploratory study that adopted a semi-structured interview approach for data collection, to explore the knowledge and understanding of fifteen practitioners who are often involved in the delivery of these projects are presented. The findings reveal a lack of knowledge and understanding of sustainability as well as structured mechanism/practices for evaluating the socio-economic sustainability factors in relation to regeneration projects.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring the knowledge 'base' of practitioners in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5130/AJCEB.v16i2.4892 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v16i2.4892 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The authors 2016. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
| Keywords: | Knowledge and understanding, practitioners, sustainability benefit, sustainable regeneration |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1534871 |
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