Sweden has committed itself to comply with EU-directive 2009/28/EC on energy from renewable sources and 2012/27/EU on improvement in the efficiency of energy. Measures in the existing housing stock, such as installing photovoltaics (PV), provide a means of contributing to the goals above. The...

Purpose - Recent evidence finds that monthly fees paid by owner-tenants in cooperative housing are kept artificially low in newly established cooperatively owned apartment complexes as compared to already established ones. This finding has been accredited to the lack of knowledge about future...

There has been a growing debate about the increasing level of under-maintenance in the Swedish housing stock especially in properties constructed under the ímillion dwellings programî in the late 1960s. A review of the literature reveals various factors that affect the level of housing...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to critically evaluate maintenance strategies and determine to what extent models from other sectors can be applied to building maintenance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a theoretical paper based on a number of Swedish studies, both case...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> The purpose of the paper is to critically evaluate the conceptual distinction between investment and maintenance. The study starts from a number of definitions in the literature and discusses these from the perspective of standard investment theory. The article argues that the standard...