建築環境の近代化：脱炭素化を拡大するための制度的ギャップの解消

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🔬研究者:建築脱炭素の非技術的障壁を定性的・混合手法で捉えた実証研究として、制度設計研究に有用。

🏢実務担当者:改修コスト上昇の真因が市場能力不足にあると理解し、サプライヤー・保険・金融との連携設計に活用可能。

🏛政策担当者:施工人材育成、許認可プロトコル、保険引受、追い出し防止策を政策パッケージとして設計する必要性を示す。

The next constraint on U.S. building modernization is not technology. It’s the market's ability to deploy it at scale. Heat pumps, mass timber, smart controls, and building performance standards are no longer experimental; they sit in the ordinary professional vocabulary of architects and engineers. What has not caught up is the workforce trained to install them, the underwriters willing to finance them without a track record, the code officials with a protocol to review them, and the insurers willing to warranty equipment they have not yet seen perform. This report draws on mixed methods research program conducted by Schneider Electric's Research Institute with Boston University's Institute for Global Sustainability, sixty practitioner interviews across Boston and Phoenix, and a case study developed with the Bloomberg New Economy Energy Technology Coalition. Three-quarters of the obstacles practitioners describe have no line item in a standard cost-benefit model. A retrofit that one Massachusetts architect prices between 1 and 15 percent above conventional cost is not pricing a harder building. It is pricing a market that has not yet built the capacity to do the work at volume: the trained subcontractor base, the underwriting template, the review protocol that lets a jobsite move without incident. This gap has consequences beyond cost. Capital deployed ahead of capacity funds equipment nobody has installed before, and the premium reappears a budget cycle later, misattributed to the hardware. Left unaddressed, the same gap creates openings for deceptive and fraudulent contracting, where technical complexity outruns a homeowner's ability to evaluate a sales pitch, and for retrofit programs that improve a building's performance while raising rents on the residents who live there, unless anti-displacement protections are built in from the start. The opportunity here is larger than emissions reduction. Building modernization, electrification, automation, and digital energy management together represent an infrastructure buildout on the scale of the original grid or highway system, with decarbonization as one of its outcomes rather than its sole justification. Closing the workforce, financing, permitting, and insurance gaps this report documents will lower the cost of that buildout for owners, protect the residents living through it, and decide whether the next decade of investment in buildings pays for capacity or, once again, for its absence.

• crossref https://doi.org/10.58284/se.sri/ugfz3987first seen 2026-09-16 05:36:49