Beyond National Building Regulations: Exploring Public-Private Negotiations Over Sustainability Requirements
2019 (English)In: Proceedings 35th Annual ARCOM Conference / [ed] C. Gorse; C. J. Neilson, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , 2019, p. 740-749Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Municipalities in Sweden govern construction projects on municipal land through requirements that sometimes go beyond national building regulations in order to advance sustainable building practices. The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of negotiating such project specific requirements for construction projects built by private housing developers on municipal land. The paper builds on a case study of an innovative urban development programme in Stockholm where interviews with private housing developers and municipal representatives and observations of meetings, seminars and forums were conducted. Emerging negotiations between the municipality and private housing developers over project specific requirements set by the municipality were explored and analysed using the concepts of product and process innovation. Findings reveal that housing developers try to remove or change those requirements that are considered to increase costs, increase risks and decrease the value of their final product. This paper illustrates how project requirements for construction projects on municipal land are dependent upon early phase negotiations between the municipality and housing developer.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association of Researchers in Construction Management , 2019. p. 740-749
Keywords [en]
municipality, innovation, sustainability, negotiations, procurement
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Construction Management and Building Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-86148Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85077123775OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-86148DiVA, id: diva2:1575257
Conference
35th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds, UK, September 2-4, 2019
Note
ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-099554634-9
2021-06-292021-06-292021-06-29Bibliographically approved