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Building change :Effects of professional culture and organizational context on energy efficiency adoption in buildings.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Building change :
Reminder of title:	Effects of professional culture and organizational context on energy efficiency adoption in buildings.
Author:	Janda, Kathryn Bess.
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Chair: Gene I. Rochlin.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-03, Section: B, page: 1240.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-03B.
Subject:	Engineering, Environmental.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9922891
ISBN:	0599224622

Building change :Effects of professional culture and organizational context on energy efficiency adoption in buildings.
Janda, Kathryn Bess.

Building change :Effects of professional culture and organizational context on energy efficiency adoption in buildings.[electronic resource] - 219 p.

Chair: Gene I. Rochlin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1998.

Despite the apparent benefits of energy-efficient buildings, energy efficiency measures have not been widely adopted by the building industry. My dissertation addresses the question “If energy efficiency is such a good idea, why isn't there more of it?” by studying the two professional groups that have the most influence over building design: architects and engineers. My hypothesis is that the professional cultures and organizational contexts of building designers can and do influence the achievable potential for energy efficiency in buildings. “Professional culture” describes what architects and engineers are generally taught (both directly and indirectly) to want in a building. “Organizational context” refers to where and how an individual architect or engineer does his or her work. Two utility-funded demand-side management projects provide data for this effort. I use technologies, designers, and decisions from these projects to explore the effects of engineering-economic information, professional culture, and organizational context on energy efficiency adoption. My results show that even in situations where cost and information barriers are overcome, professional culture and organizational contexts affect energy efficiency adoption. My conclusions recommend treating energy efficiency in the built environment as a socio-technical problem, not an engineering-economic one. To improve energy efficiency adoption in the short term, efficiency advocates should focus on organizational context, matching efficient technologies with the firm types most likely to adopt them. To generate market transformation in the long term, efficiency advocates should focus on educating future generations of designers to include efficiency in their professional cultures.

ISBN: 0599224622Subjects--Topical Terms:

212478
Engineering, Environmental.

Building change :Effects of professional culture and organizational context on energy efficiency adoption in buildings.
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