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A South African Experience of Building Energy Retrofit Project Challenges and Solutions

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Delivering building energy retrofit project will bring about economic gains, while enhancing social well-being and engendering sustainable development. However, building energy retrofit projects encompass additional considerations and requirements in terms of process, material, expertise, and technology. All these factors constitute complexities in the delivery of the project. In addressing this problem, the paper presents how stakeholders understand implementation challenges in the delivering of projects amongst South African service providers. The case-based study highlighted the challenges, and solution concerning the methodologies that are appropriate in ameliorating the situations.

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  1. Unit for Lean Construction and Sustainability, Central University of Technology Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

    Chikezirim Okorafor

  2. Department of Built Environment, Central University of Technology Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

    Fidelis Emuze

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Central University of Technology Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

    Dillip Kumar Das

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  1. Technological University Dublin, Dunboyne, Ireland

    Lloyd Scott

  2. University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK

    Mohammad Dastbaz

  3. Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

    Christopher Gorse

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Okorafor, C., Emuze, F., Das, D.K. (2020). A South African Experience of Building Energy Retrofit Project Challenges and Solutions. In: Scott, L., Dastbaz, M., Gorse, C. (eds) Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44381-8_31

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