Multi-storey timber buildings: breaking industry path dependency

作者：Mahapatra Krushna^*; Gustavsson Leif

来源：Building Research and Information, 2008, 36(6): 638-648.

DOI：10.1080/09613210802386123

• innovation system
• lock-in
• multi-storey buildings
• path dependency
• technology systems
• timber frame
• wood buildings
• Sweden

The Swedish legal restriction on construction of multi-storey timber buildings was imposed in 1888 and repealed in 1994. The subsequent emergence of such a timber building system in Sweden is analysed in the context of the existing concrete-based construction system. The characteristics of the construction industry and its path dependency over the past century hamper the development of a timber building system. However, government policies and funding, the wood industry's interest in an enhanced market for value-added wood products, and involvement of the wood research community has helped develop such a construction system. Investments in knowledge creation, incentives for the entry of new firms, and increased prefabrication may facilitate a transition from this formative phase to a growth phase in the diffusion of timber buildings.

• 出版日期2008