The overview of existing regulations, protocols, and guidelines governing the renovation of high-rise residential buildings identified a range of drivers, trends, and opportunities associated with building renovation, but assessment of their combined impact on building renovation requires further investigation. Both the UK and Canadian building stocks experience low levels of replacement and investment in renovation is a key driver for changes in the building stock. The UK’s stock specifically
Results of the system dynamics analysis
Although the initial development of the diagrams was completed through an investigation of the factors that enabled the Grenfell fire to occur, the validation process showed that the resulting CLDs are representative of the processes involved in the renovation of high-rise residential buildings in general in the UK and, to some extent, Canada as well (discussed for each CLD in the following sections). This is an important finding because it means that the Grenfell disaster was not necessarily a
Conclusions and recommendations
Using the findings from the overview of UK and Canadian building renovation regulations, protocols, and guidelines (Section 3.5) and the modes of intervention identified in the system dynamics analysis (Table 4), five key conclusions and recommendations for improving the regulatory framework of high-rise residential building renovations were developed. These recommendations do not address all of the identified policy gaps or modes of intervention identified in the system dynamics approach,
Summary and future work
This paper presents a method to identify barriers to achieving high-performing renovations in high-rise residential buildings using qualitative system dynamics. With its focus on the systems feedback structure via the system dynamics approach, it provided an innovative and visual representation of systemic failure but also of potential improvement. The current state of key building renovation policies, protocols, and guidelines was reviewed, followed by an example of high-rise residential