TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the influence of austerity on the sustainability performance delivered within four Spanish hospital projects
AU - Martinez Fernadez, Laura
AU - Thomson, Craig
N1 - This paper was presented as a working paper at the ARCOM 2017 Conference, Cambridge, UK, 4-6 September 2017. Please contact the authors before citing [author note]
Query to author re acceptance date 12-9-17; publisher permits use of final version in repositories (previous permission email rec'd)
Paper in working paper series http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/archive/2017-Working-Papers.pdf not indexed in proceedings (author email 6-8-18)
PY - 2017/9/6
Y1 - 2017/9/6
N2 - The economic recession in Spain (2008-2012) has resulted in a period of unprecedented austerity as the Government attempted to align with the requirements of EC financial aid. Budgets for new hospital projects were significantly reduced and many on-going projects forced to adjust their initial proposals to fit with the new economics. As the crisis eases this research seeks to explore the impact of the economic crisis on the priority placed on sustainability in new hospital projects during this period asking whether it was 1) perceived as a luxury against other priorities and removed, 2) retained purely as a requirement (i.e. CTE-2006) or 3) embraced as a driver to reduce operational lifecycle costs and if so to what extent did this go beyond energy. Four hospitals projects located in Pamplona (Navarra) reflecting a staggered timeline in their inception (before, during and after the economic crisis) are evaluated through a triangulation of methods (checklists, project documents and interviews) and a common evaluation framework based around BREEAM and CTE. Analysis revealed that sustainable measures which were regulated by legislation and those which have been proven to achieve an economic benefit over the buildings lifecycle have been retained and implemented despite the budget cuts.
AB - The economic recession in Spain (2008-2012) has resulted in a period of unprecedented austerity as the Government attempted to align with the requirements of EC financial aid. Budgets for new hospital projects were significantly reduced and many on-going projects forced to adjust their initial proposals to fit with the new economics. As the crisis eases this research seeks to explore the impact of the economic crisis on the priority placed on sustainability in new hospital projects during this period asking whether it was 1) perceived as a luxury against other priorities and removed, 2) retained purely as a requirement (i.e. CTE-2006) or 3) embraced as a driver to reduce operational lifecycle costs and if so to what extent did this go beyond energy. Four hospitals projects located in Pamplona (Navarra) reflecting a staggered timeline in their inception (before, during and after the economic crisis) are evaluated through a triangulation of methods (checklists, project documents and interviews) and a common evaluation framework based around BREEAM and CTE. Analysis revealed that sustainable measures which were regulated by legislation and those which have been proven to achieve an economic benefit over the buildings lifecycle have been retained and implemented despite the budget cuts.
KW - hospitals projects, sustainable construction, Spanish economic crisis
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780995546318
SP - 156
EP - 165
BT - Association of Researchers in Construction Management Research 33rd Annual conference
PB - ARCOM
CY - Cambridge
ER -