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TY - JOUR
T1 - Local variants of mobile sustainable building assessment models: the marketization and constrained mutation of BREEAM ES
AU - Faulconbridge, James
AU - Yalciner, Sercan
N1 - Date of Acceptance: 28/04/2015 Acceptance letter is uploaded as document with access to pure backend users only
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The globalization of sustainable building assessment models is now a familiar topic, as are related debates about the degrees of local sensitivity of such models. The contribution of this paper is to examine empirically the way marketization affects the mutation of models as they travel, and the implications of this for local sensitivity. By marketization we mean the effects when both a market for models emerges, and the adoption of a model acts as a means for an organization or city to gain competitive advantage over rivals. Using the case of one sustainable building assessment model, the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Model (BREEAM), and its movement from the UK to Spain and transformation into BREEAM ES, the paper reveals the important ways that marketization can constrain mutation. Using Callon’s ideas about translation, we show that the model was translated in a way designed to minimize adaptations to local context in order to maximise the comparability of buildings assessed using BREEAM ES with building assessed using other variants of the BREEAM model. This suggests, we claim, that marketization is a significant reason for the outcomes of the mobility of BREEAM being the opposite of that observed in many previous studies where a model’s name stays the same but its content and the practice of implementation varies.
AB - The globalization of sustainable building assessment models is now a familiar topic, as are related debates about the degrees of local sensitivity of such models. The contribution of this paper is to examine empirically the way marketization affects the mutation of models as they travel, and the implications of this for local sensitivity. By marketization we mean the effects when both a market for models emerges, and the adoption of a model acts as a means for an organization or city to gain competitive advantage over rivals. Using the case of one sustainable building assessment model, the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Model (BREEAM), and its movement from the UK to Spain and transformation into BREEAM ES, the paper reveals the important ways that marketization can constrain mutation. Using Callon’s ideas about translation, we show that the model was translated in a way designed to minimize adaptations to local context in order to maximise the comparability of buildings assessed using BREEAM ES with building assessed using other variants of the BREEAM model. This suggests, we claim, that marketization is a significant reason for the outcomes of the mobility of BREEAM being the opposite of that observed in many previous studies where a model’s name stays the same but its content and the practice of implementation varies.
KW - BREEAM
KW - Globalization
KW - Sustainable building
KW - Marketization
U2 - 10.1111/glob.12083
DO - 10.1111/glob.12083
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 360
EP - 378
JO - Global Networks
JF - Global Networks
SN - 1470-2266
IS - 3
ER -