Paula Femenias

2026

Uncertainties and anticipated disturbances as drivers of tenant relocation in Swedish housing renovation

Has behaviour left housing design? A literature review and research agenda

2026

Implementing minimum energy performance requirements ‘from the middle’: shifting levels of agency and capacity of housing developers in Sweden

2025

User Perspectives on Circular Value Propositions for Kitchen Furniture and Appliances

2025

Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations: Reviewing research, market and societal trends

2024

Energy Efficiency and Socio-Cultural Values in Public Policy in the City of Stockholm

Better living from housing renovation? The perspective of tenants in Sweden

Overheating in the Nordics: challenges in the Swedish multi-residential building stock

2023

“It's never telling me that I'm good!” Household experiences of testing a smart home energy management system with a personal threshold on energy use in Sweden

Oförsvarligt att riva landshövdingehusen i Kvillestaden

2023

Energy use patterns and renovations of Swedish second homes

2023

Varför flyttar hyresgäster vid renovering?

2023

Modern heritage and housing renovation: Policy development and practical experiences from Gothenburg, Sweden. Patrimoine contemporain et rénovation de logements : élaboration de politiques et expériences pratiques à Göteborg (Suède)

2023

Energy systems in sustainability-profiled districts in Sweden: A literature review and a socio-technical ecology approach for future research

2022

The Implementation of Conservation Policy and the Application of Solar Energy Technology in Small House Areas: Stockholm, Sweden

2022

Relocation rationale - Why people move in connection with renovation projects

2022

Understanding the progress of sustainable urban development through energy performance

2022

Is there a need for new kitchen design? Assessing the adaptative capacity of space to enable circularity in multiresidential buildings

2022

Determining spatial characteristics for circular building design: The case of kitchen alterations

2022

Meeting Design Supporting Sustainability in Early Planning Practice: A Combination of ‘Hard and Soft’ Characteristics

2022

What are typical levels of housing renovation? A typology based on Swedish public strategies

Sustainable building renovation – strategies and processes

Störning en faktor att planera för vid bostadsrenovering

2022

The voices of vulnerable tenants in renovation

A multi-criteria decision support method towards selecting feasible and sustainable housing renovation strategies

2021

Exploring the Relationship between Environmental and Economic Payback Times, and Heritage Values in an Energy Renovation of a Multi-Residential Pre-War Building

2021

My apartment is cold! Household perceptions of indoor climate and demand-side management in Sweden

2021

How well do policies for energy efficiency and heritage values in the Swedish housing stock work

2020

What does energy mean for people? Perspectives on renovation and energy retrofit among Swedish tenants

2020

Action Research for sustainability: co-creation overcoming fragmentation in multidisciplinary design teams

2020

Boendes syn på kulturvärden: Resultat från enkäter och intervjuer i samband med renovering av äldre flerbostadshus

2020

Designing for Circularity—Addressing Product Design, Consumption Practices and Resource Flows in Domestic Kitchens

2020

Foresights from the Swedish Kitchen: Four Circular Value Opportunities for the Built Environment

2020

Adaptable housing? A quantitative study of contemporary apartment layouts that have been rearranged by end-users

2020

The implementation of energy saving policies and their influence on energy use and cultural values in the housing stock of Sweden

2020

Om-renovering: Möjligheter för energieffektivisering och återskapande av kulturvärden när flerbostadshus renoveras på nytt

2020

Bostadsbolagen tenderar att göra mer varsam renovering

2020

Textil arkitektur - nya möjligheter att skapa bättre akustik i urbana miljöer

2019

Flytt i samband med renovering: Preliminära resultat från en pilotstudie

2019

Renovation Strategies for Multi-Residential Buildings from the Record Years in Sweden—Profit-Driven or Socioeconomically Responsible?

2019

Textile architecture – about sound absorbing facades and textiles in urban landscapes

2019

Potentials and Challenges for Integrating PV in Roof Renovation of Multi-residential Houses—A Questionnaire Survey

2019

Om-renovering – möjligheter för energieffektivisering när äldre flerbostadshus renoveras en andra gång

Har bostadens utformning betydelse för den miljömässiga och sociala hållbarheten?

2019

The Role of the Architect in Sustainable Housing Transformation. Four Swedish Case Studies.

Har bostadens utformning betydelse för den miljömässiga och sociala hållbarheten?

2019

Sound absorbing textile surfaces in the urban landscape - collaborative research in textile and architectural design

2019

Multidimensional evaluation of tenants’ temporal relocation during a renovation: A comparison between two case studies from Sweden

2019

Residential movements in connection to renovation of rented multi-residential housing: A pilot study

2019

Kunskapslyft renovering

2019

Hållbar renovering ur ett helhetsperspektiv: En antologi från forskningsmiljön SIRen

Från omfattande till varsam renovering

2018

Solavskärmningar med integrerade solceller – hur och varför? ELSA-Guiden

2018

Solceller som solavskärmning. Forskning, utveckling och demonstration

Informing sustainable architecture - Social sustainability

Design tools for a sustainable design process - the view of practicing architects

Retinking deep renovation: The perspective of rental housing in Sweden

2018

Takrenovering med solceller – en enkätstudie

2018

Bostadsforskare om Bostadskvalitet

Krönika: "Felplanerade bostadsrätter ökar resursslöseri."

2018

Framtidens klimatsmarta och hållbara bostad

Renovating the Housing Stock Built Before 1945: Exploring the Relations Between Energy Efficiency, Embodied Energy and Heritage Values

2018

Transdisciplinary Research in the Built Environment: A Question of Time

Retrofitting from the Inside/Insight Perspective: Adapting to Users’ Needs with the Kitchen as a Starting Point

Elgenererande solavskärmningar - En erfarenhetsåterföring av byggda exempel

Energirenovering av flerfamiljshus uppförda före 1945: De boendes perspektiv

2018

Value creation by re-renovation – focus on the user perspective

2018

Utmaningar för hållbar förnyelse: En studie av miljonprogramsområdet Siriusgatan

Utmaningar vid planering av hållbar bostadsförnyelse: En studie av ett miljonprogramsområde

2017

Users in low-energy buildings: Consequences for clients

2017

Improving the market up-take of energy producing solar shading: A communication model to discuss preferences for architectural integration across different professions

2017

Improving the Market Up-take of Energy Producing Solar Shading: Experiences from Three Cases of Retrofit

2017

Future Challenges for Renovation as Experienced by Swedish Housing Companies

2017

Återbruk: En outnyttjad potential vid renovering

2017

Renoveringsbehov i äldre hus: möjligheter för energieffektivisering och bevarande av kulturmiljö

2017

Earthy textiles. Experiences from a joint teaching encounter between textile design and architecture

2017

Developing a business model for sustainable renovation of public housing

2017

Nya utsikter för solceller vid takrenovering

2017

Solceller i samband med takrenovering på flerbostadshus – En litteratur- och enkätstudie

Architectural Research in Living Labs: Exploring Occupier Driven Changes in Homes

Sustainable homes, or simply energy-efficient buildings?

DARE2Build

2016

Att bygg och bo: Intervjuer med 11 hushåll om kvaliteter och bostadsanpassning av bostadsrättslägenheter

2016

Arkitektur och materialflöden i bostäder: Hur påverkar arkitekturen materialflöden över tid i bostadsrätter?

2016

Socio-economic impact of renovation and energy retrofitting of the Gothenburg building stock

2016

Pending for Renovations: Understanding the Conditions of the Multi-family Housing Stock from before 1945

2016

Arkitektur, materialflöden och klimatpåverkan i bostäder

2016

Renoveringsbarometern: Omfattning och karaktär av renoveringar i bostadshus

Strategies for integrated and sustainable renovation: A stronger voice for architectural knowledge

Effekter av renovering och bostadsförnyelse – En översikt över tidigare utvärderingar

A Strong Research Environment for Sustainable Renovation Established in Sweden

SIRen - En stark forskningsmiljö för hållbar integrerad renovering

2015

Koll på hållbar renovering

2015

25 Years of shaping future architects and architecture - The evolution of a sustainable building curriculum

Det sociala och renovering - en översikt av tidigare erfarenhet

The unspoken: Architectural values, material flows and renovation of modern housing stock

2015

Perspektiv på bostadsförnyelse: Slutrapport från en förstudie av Högsbohöjd

2015

Perspektiv på bostadsförnyelse: Vad kan vi lära av tidigare renoveringar?

Sustainability indicators for redevelopment: Assessing the long-term effect of different strategies used in two housing areas

2014

Rebo - Strategier för hållbar renovering - fokus på perioden "folkhemmet"

Comparing socio-technical regimes and transition potential in Austrian and Swedish multi-residential housing

A Strong Research Environment for Sustainable Renovation Established in Sweden

2014

Delivering and operating low-energy buildings in France and Sweden

2014

Leda innovation i byggherreföretag. En guideline

Ställ tekniska egenskapskrav och använd deklarationerna

2014

Strategier för renovering och ombyggnad av flerbostadshus från 1940-1960-talet: Strategimatris - ett exempel

Testing and evaluating sustainable design practices

2014

Rebo: Strategies for Sustainable Renovation – Focus on the Period ”Folkhemmet”

2014

Case Torpa - en arbetsrapport inom forskningsprojektet ReBo

’Defining challenges for sustainable future homes: A review of earlier experimental activities

2013

Paradoxes and Possibilities for a ‘Green’ Housing Sector: A Swedish Case

Testing a multi-value approach to support decision making in renovation in the pre-design phase: A housing area in Sweden from the 1940s.

Få möjligheter att utmana det som byggs idag

BEYOND GREEN - the unsustainable home in the environmentally adapted building

2013

The Habitation Lab: Using a Design Approach to Foster Innovation for Sustainable Living

Integrated Strategies for Sustainable Renovation of Early Post-War Housing: The Case ofTorpa, a Housing Area and National Heritage Asset in Sweden

Sweden: Integrated Strategies to Overcome Market Barriers

Byggherrar och innovation – från process till förmåga

The unsustainable home in the environmentally adjusted residential building?

Objectifs en faveur de l'environnement et du développement durable dans la transformation de logements publics existants: Un apercu de 25 années d'éxperience en Suède

2012

Teaching, assessment and quality in architectural teaching

2012

Unveiling the Process of Sustainable Renovation

2011

Strategies for an Integrated Sustainable Renovation Process: Focus on the Swedish Housing stock ‘People’s Home’

2011

Clients’ strategies for driving innovation in low energy building

Energy Efficiency in the Housing Sector – The Swedish Case’

Retrofitting the city: Re-use of non-domestic buildings

2009

Byggherremodell för demonstrationsprojekt: Implementeringsguide.

2009

PATHWAYS FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING TRANSFORMATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF RETROFITTING STRATEGIES FOR (SOCIAL) HOUSING

2009

Linking Social and Environmental Aspects: A Multidimensional Evaluation of Refurbishment Projects

2009

The demonstration project as a tool for client driven innovation: exploring the possibilities from a Swedish perspective

Sustainable Housing Transformations: The Housing Association as a Change Agent for Environmental Innovation and Social Regeneration – Two case studies

2008

Potentials and challenges for sustainable retrofitting of non-domestic buildings: A UK perspective

2008

Supporting development towards more sustainable building: perspectives on the demonstration project as a strategy for change

Competitive cooperation in Swedish projects for sustainable building

Rusta med miljön i fokus!

Towards a Sustainable Building Approach: arenas of enactment, models of diffusion and the meaning of demnstration projects for change

2006

Experiences from Universeum Science Centre in Sweden: Focus on the delivery phase a weak link between the project and the building in use

Växthus del i socialt program som skall öka trivseln

Sustainable Retrofitting of Non-domestic Buildings: A UK perspective autumn 2006

Speciella klimatkrav för Universeum

Les habitants des maisons solaires français de les année 1970 et 1980 revisitées – Une enquête du rapport à long terme entre systèmes techniques et l'utilisateurs

Demonstration projects as an Arena for Implementation and Development of Sustainable Building

Demonstration Projects for Sustainable Building: Towards a Strategy for Sustainable Development in the Building Sector

2005

Potentials for Sustainable Development by Amalgamating Social and Environmental Aspects: Experiences from Refurbishment Projects in Sweden

Demonstration projects as an arena for implementation and development or sustainable building

Demonstration Projects for Sustainable Building – What’s in them for utility?

Zweedse hout

2004

Demonstration Projects for Sustainable Building: Towards a Strategy for Sustainable Development in the Building Sector based on Swedish and Dutch Experience

The Built Example as Design Tool for the Making of Sustainable Architecture

Demonstration Projects - An Effective Strategy for Sustainable Building?

Demonstration Projects – An Effective Strategy for Sustainable Building?

Innovating for Sustainable Building: Guidelines for the Making of Demonstration Projects

Communicating Sustainable Building: The Image Conveyed in Media

Medias bild av "hållbart byggande"

Communicating Sustainable Building: The Image Conveyed by Media

Discursive features of sustainable building in media

Accepting the Challenge: Interpretation and Implementation of Sustainable Building in the Swedish and the Dutch Building Sectors

What, and in what way can we learn from demonstrations projects?

Learning from buildings : a strategy for environmental design : discussions from a case study of the sustainable building project GWL-terrain in Amsterdam

Learning from buildings - A discussion on how knowledge can be gained from case studies of sustainable design

Environmental design strategies - Learning from buildings

Framtidsstudier av fönsterbyten i miljonprogrammets flerbostadshus

Learning from Buildings; A Strategy for Environmental Design

A Study of Puerto Jubiley: Buildings and Resources in an Old Village in the Sierra Nevada

Nationalpaketet bostad: Nederländernas norm för uthålligt bostadsbyggande

Holländsk ekoguide: En vägvisare till uthålligt byggande i Nederländerna

Bergsjön an ecological district

Japan : en berättelse av Paula Femenias om en resa hösten 1993

Ekobyggen i Göteborg med omnejd