Wood Material Science & Engineering ( IF 2.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-15 , DOI: 10.1080/17480272.2019.1641741 Heini Vihemäki 1, 2 , Alice Ludvig 3, 4 , Ritva Toivonen 1, 2 , Anne Toppinen 1, 2 , Gerhard Weiss 3, 4
In the urbanizing society faced with the climate change challenge, wood has major potential as a low-carbon and renewable construction material. Yet, Wooden Multi-storey Construction (WMC) remains a niche even in countries with rich forest resources. This paper compares the institutional and policy setting and assesses the WMC growth prospects in Austria and Finland, based on expert interviews, Delphi surveys, and the review of secondary materials. Clear differences were detected in the policy frameworks and institutional settings between the two countries. The Austrian fairly informal and largely private sector driven approaches to promote the growth of the WMC sector seem to have had a rather similar effect on the markets, as the formal policy measures, typically driven by the public sector in Finland. In both countries, the interviewed experts suggested additional, but partly different, policy measures and institutional changes to accelerate WMC market diffusion. In spite of the increase in WMC activity within the past ten years, the WMC market share is likely to remain rather low by 2030 in both countries, as the institutional frameworks are not expected to change abruptly. However, the future market prospects appear to be somewhat more positive in Finland compared with Austria.
中文翻译:
塑造木制多层建筑市场的制度和政策框架:奥地利和芬兰的比较案例研究
在面临气候变化挑战的城市化社会中,木材具有作为低碳和可再生建筑材料的巨大潜力。然而,即使在森林资源丰富的国家,木制多层建筑(WMC)仍然是一个利基市场。本文根据专家访谈,Delphi调查以及对次要材料的审查,比较了机构和政策设置,并评估了WMC在奥地利和芬兰的增长前景。两国之间在政策框架和机构设置方面存在明显差异。奥地利相当非正式和很大程度上由私营部门推动的,促进WMC部门增长的方法似乎对市场产生了相当相似的影响,因为正式的政策措施通常由芬兰的公共部门推动。在这两个国家 受访专家建议采取其他但部分不同的政策措施和机构变更,以加快WMC市场的扩散。尽管在过去十年中WMC的活动有所增加,但由于预计机构框架不会突然改变,因此到2030年这两个国家WMC的市场份额可能仍将保持在较低水平。但是,与奥地利相比,芬兰的未来市场前景似乎更为乐观。