Data for 'Going active: How do people envision the next generation of buildings?'


YEAR: 2022

COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Elli Nikolaidou

License: CC BY 4.0


These four Excel files reflect the responses of stakeholders to the following questions:
1) What is missing from existing regulations and standards?
2) What is an Active Building?
3) How should the performance of Active Buildings be assessed?
4) What are the challenges to the popularisation of Active Buildings?

Each Excel file contains four columns:
1) Person:	Numbers 1-30 reflect the industry experts and numbers 31-60 reflect the academics and researchers.
2) Criterion:	Numbers reflect the most popular responses and hence vary from one question to another (see a detailed list below).
3) Group:	0 stands for industry and 1 for academia.
4) Response:	0 means that this option was not selected by a given person and 1 that it was selected.

Here are the most popular responses to each question (in alphabetical order):
1) What is missing from existing regulations and standards?
	1: absolute performance targets
	2: incentives/commitment
	3: intelligence
	4: pairing buildings to the energy infrastructure
	5: performance verification
	6: simplicity
	7: whole-life perspective
2) What is an Active Building?
	1: responsive to (internal & external) conditions
	2: responsive to the needs of the energy infrastructure
	3: responsive to the needs of occupants
3) How should the performance of Active Buildings be assessed?
	1: comfort
	2: energy demand
	3: energy flexibility
	4: peak demand
	5: whole-life carbon
4) What are the challenges to the popularisation of Active Buildings?
	1: data control
	2: expensive technologies
	3: lack of combined authorities
	4: lack of evidence
	5: our culture
	6: skills shortage


