“The impact of Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF’s) on sustainable housing in Poland”
Creators: name: Piech, Jakub
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330110
subject: Sustainable architecture

description: Construction of residential buildings is rapidly growing, resulting in consuming huge amounts of natural resources, water and energy and consequently contributing to greenhouse gas emission, waste production and water and air pollution. While a single-family house as a single object has the minuscule negative environmental impact, the total effect of the single-family building industry (SFB), however, cannot be unnoticeable and underestimated. This study investigates the engagement of the researchers in the area of sustainable residential building and attempts to identify the Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs) involved in the successful development of sustainable residential building. The main aim of the thesis is to formulate the recommendation for Polish sustainable SFB. Both, the comprehensive, integrative literature review of the articles published between 2015 and 2021 as well as initial unsystematic literature search allowed to determine regulatory, economic, sociocultural, and technological EEFs impacting the development of the sustainable SFB. The case study of Polish achievements in the implementation of the sustainable practices into the SFB industry allowed to specify the areas in need of the improvements. In Poland, as in many countries, the sustainable SFB is in the “take-off” phase. Over the past two years, significant efforts have been made by governments, municipalities and other non-government organizations and other parties to support sustainable building. However, moving to the next “acceleration” stage, allowing to make the sustainable building to become mainstream, requires well organized and focused activities. The growing market demand could accelerate the adoption of the sustainable housing. The following findings have emerged from the thesis. First of all, the most important aspects to focus on in the next future, are to increase the awareness of the investors and professionals, smart marketing of the sustainable products, attractive costs of the sustainability solutions and easy access to the sustainable services. Secondly, the idea of the sustainable building should be broadly communicated alongside with the clear explanation of the individual profits and benefits. Furthermore, the competitive prices could be achieved by the support of the manufacturers and eco-innovations. However, the decrease of the investment costs could be also achieved by the incentives for the investors choosing the sustainable products, which currently are not available in Poland. Moreover, the green mortgages could be also the driver to the sustainable choices, if they are beneficial (worth of the efforts) and properly advertised. Finally, the sufficient number of the skilled and reliable tradesmen, engineers and architects is the foundation of the high-quality services and their availability. That is why the early vocational education of the sustainable construction workers should be introduced as well as a mandatory subject of the sustainable construction for professionals. The government and organizations aiming in the faster implementation of the sustainable housing are likely to find this thesis useful for the near future activities. The findings of this research enable researchers to design their studies accordingly and consequently contribute to the acceleration of the sustainable building adoption.