Urban Planners’ Perspectives on Public Private Partnership for Wooden Multistorey Construction

Abstract

Increased awareness of sustainable development in the construction industry and current housing shortages have contributed to market opportunities for wooden multi-storey construction (WMC) in the Nordic countries. However, the market development has been slow despite access to forest products and a political ambition to transform to a low carbon society. The aim of this study is to explain enabling factors for municipalities in Sweden to create institutional conditions that stimulate local market development of WMC. A comparative case study of municipal efforts to establish WMC norms has been conducted pointing to the importance of relationships, in so-called public private partnerships (PPP). These partnerships serve as long-lasting relations in which development processes can manage challenges relating to, for example, lack of professional experience in WMC and dated material understandings of wood as a construction material. In the Sustainable Development Goals, PPP represent enabling conditions for sustainable system transformations.

Keywords

Collaboration; construction project; market development; multi-family housing; path dependence; PPP

Published in

Journal of Forest Economics
2023, volume: 38, number: 1, pages: 7-35

SLU Authors

• Mark-Herbert, Cecilia

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Roos, Anders

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Nagy, Emil

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Sjöström, Fredrik

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG12 Responsible consumption and production

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1561/112.00000542

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/127465