Despite increasing evidence that being an environment-friendly company not only benefits the environment but also makes long-term economic sense, the transition to a more sustainable society is extremely slow. This is true of the building and construction industry as well. At a strategic level, environmental issues have received more attention with the establishment of roles such as environmental managers and implementation of advanced environmental management systems. However, adoption has been slow in the absence of a holistic approach to environmental challenges, partly reinforced by a perception that giving more than the legally required level of environmental consideration will only add to costs without corresponding financial benefits. This raises the following question that the study aims to answer: What is the most important factor influencing decision makers’ in adopting environmental considerations? To this end, it analysed questionnaire data collected from decision makers in the Swedish construction industry along with an in-depth case study of a specific building and construction company. The results show that decision makers perceive informational and institutional constraints on the adoption of environmental considerations. Lack of information is perceived as the biggest obstacle to environmental considerations. If information and knowledge about clients’ and end users’ financial benefits from adopting environmental considerations need to be exploited, they have to be supported by contractual forms that discard a short-term focus on the investment costs of a building in favour of a focus on long-term operational and maintenance costs and benefits.

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瑞典建筑业中的环境因素：成本，机构设置和信息的作用。

尽管越来越多的证据表明，成为一家环境友好的公司不仅有益于环境，而且具有长远的经济意义，但向更可持续发展的社会过渡非常缓慢。建筑业也是如此。在战略层面，随着环境管理人员的角色建立和高级环境管理系统的实施，环境问题受到了越来越多的关注。但是，在缺乏整体解决环境挑战的方法时，采用速度一直很慢，部分原因是人们认为，给予超出法律要求水平的环境考虑只会增加成本，而没有相应的财务利益。这提出了该研究旨在回答的以下问题：影响决策者采用环境因素的最重要因素是什么？为此，它分析了从瑞典建筑业决策者那里收集的调查问卷数据，以及对特定建筑和建筑公司的深入案例研究。结果表明，决策者在采用环境因素时会感觉到信息和制度上的限制。缺乏信息被认为是环境考虑的最大障碍。如果需要利用有关环境方面的考虑因素来了解有关客户和最终用户的经济利益的信息和知识，