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Chen, L, Yuan, B and Wang, X (2024) Simulation analysis of the constraints on the green retrofit of existing buildings and strategies for its promotion: a hybrid method based on ISM and SD. Building Research & Information, 52(05), 515–32.
Gallego Sánchez-Torija, J, García López, C and Fernández Nieto, M A (2024) Energy, water and economic savings by changing habits of users in twelve schools in Spain. Building Research & Information, 52(05), 596–609.
Kurvinen, A, Huovari, J, Lahtinen, M, Sen, T and Saari, A (2024) A dynamic model for estimating the long-term need for repairs and renovations in residential buildings. Building Research & Information, 52(05), 533–50.
Moradi, S, Hirvonen, J and Sormunen, P (2024) A qualitative and life cycle-based study of the energy performance gap in building construction: Perspectives of Finnish project professionals and property maintenance experts. Building Research & Information, 52(05), 564–76.
Sajjad, M, Jayasinghe, C and Perera, P (2024) Damage assessment automation for single storey detached masonry houses: a probabilistic approach. Building Research & Information, 52(05), 551–63.
Wingrove, K, Heffernan, E and Daly, D (2024) Increased home energy use: unintended outcomes of energy efficiency focused policy. Building Research & Information, 52(05), 577–95.
Winkler, C, Perez Vico, E and Widén, K (2024) Challenges to business ecosystem alignment when implementing solar photovoltaic systems in the Swedish built environment. Building Research & Information, 52(05), 497–514.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: Business ecosystem; innovation implementation; solar photovoltaic; construction;
- ISBN/ISSN: 0961-3218
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2256435
- Abstract:
Implementing solar photovoltaic systems in the built environment (BEPV) is critical for the construction sector’s contribution to mitigating climate change. While previous studies give various insights into innovation implementation, the challenges to value co-creation by construction actors remain underexplored. By studying the alignment of business ecosystems implementing BEPV in the Swedish built environment, we address this need. Drawing on the cumulative experience of construction actors, this study demonstrates how knowledge mislocation, knowledge deficits, cultural discrepancies, insufficient building codes, frequently changing regulations, and implementing a highly embedded innovation can disturb ecosystem alignment. The study contributes to the ecosystem literature, scholarly discussions of innovation implementation in complex construction projects, and the PV diffusion literature by offering insights into the realignment of ecosystems involving value co-creation by actors from previously unconnected industries. The study links PV diffusion research to the construction management literature by exploring the cumulative experience of implementation at the micro level. We highlight the significant industry reconfigurations required to accommodate a deeply embedded technological innovation, reconfigurations going beyond the challenges of implementing systemic innovations encumbered by fewer material dependencies. We also emphasize the critical importance of industrial interaction, coordination, and learning to accelerate the sustainability transition.