The perception of Swedish housing owner’s on the strategies to increase the rate of energy efficient refurbishment of multi-family buildings

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Table 1. Questions about energy-efficient refurbishment and corresponding answers. Housing owners are denoted A and energy companies denoted B.

		Very much	Considerable	To some extent	No	No opinion
Do housing owners have sufficient knowledge about the national building regulations and future energy targets?	A	27%	47%	20%	7%	0%
	B
Can tools like Sveby, Bygga E and building certification systems such as BREEAM, LEED, WELL or ‘Miljöbyggnad' be useful in order to choose refurbishment measures?	A	67%	27%	0%	0%	7%
	B	39%	23%	15%	15%	8%
How dependent are housing owners on consultants in energy efficiency work?	A	29%	64%	7%	0%	0%
	B	61%	31%	0%	0%	8%
		Vital	Important	Slight importance	Not important	No opinion
How important is it to consider social sustainability in refurbishment projects?	A	13%	53%	33%	0%	0%
	B	23%	31%	15%	23%	8%
How important is it to recycle knowledge from one refurbishment project to the next?	A	93%	7%	0%	0%	0%
	B
How important is dialogue with the energy companies when choosing energy-efficiency measures for buildings?	A	0%	27%	47%	27%	0%
	B	23%	38%	8%	15%	15%
		Always	Frequently	Seldom	Never	No opinion
Do refurbishment projects in Sweden have clear goals, proper project management to reach the goals and verification of fulfillment afterwards?	A	7%	20%	53%	0%	20%
	B

Figure 1. Challenging factors in energy-efficient refurbishment for housing owners. Response from housing owners denoted A and energy companies denoted B. Aspects considered as great limitations are indicated by points far from origo.