Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Berker, Thomas"
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A traveler’s guide to smart grids and the social sciences
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Ryghaug, Marianne; Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue on smart grids and the social sciences. There is currently a discourse of very high ambitions and anticipation regarding how the implementation of a broad collection ... -
Ambitions at work: Professional practices and the energy performance of non-residential buildings in Norway
Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Verhulst, Elli; Valle Kinloch, Roberto; Junghans, Antje; Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Globally, buildings are considerable energy users. Stricter regulations and instruments such as energy performance standards aim at raising energy performance ambitions and reducing energy use. They rely on the implementation ... -
Berre estetisk? - Arkitektkompetanse i møte med berekraftig arkitektur
Haugland, Bård Torvetjønn (Master thesis, 2018)Tal frå FNs klimapanels femte hovudrapport viser at bygningar i 2010 stod for 32% av verdas energiforbruk, 19% av verdas energirelaterte klimagassutslepp, og om lag ein tredjedel av verdas utslepp av svart karbon, og at ... -
Building Power. Innovations in the intersection between the building and the power sectors and the transition to sustainability
Kvellheim, Ann Kristin (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:95, Doctoral thesis, 2018) -
Dealing with uncertainty in sustainable innovation: mainstreaming and substitution
Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)In this paper, innovation is studied as a set of activities that seeks to deal with uncertainty. It is argued that the very idea of innovation contains the assumption that the future is, in principle, open to change. ... -
Domesticating Spaces: Sociotechnical Studies and the Built Environment
Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The main aim of this article is to rephrase good and bad performance of built environments as good or bad interplay of spaces, building technologies, and users. To support this perspective, two conceptual tools broadly ... -
Domestication, acceptance and zero emission ambitions: Insights from a mixed method, experimental research design in a Norwegian Living Lab
Korsnes, Marius; Berker, Thomas; Woods, Ruth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The Trondheim Living Lab is a detached single-family zero emission building (ZEB) that is planned to reach a zero-emission balance over the course of its estimated 60-year lifetime. This is achieved by a broad variety of ... -
Emerging circular economies: Discourse coalitions in a Norwegian case
Ortega Alvarado, Isaac Arturo; Sutcliffe, Thomas Edward; Berker, Thomas; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains an anticipated future with alternative pathways for its fulfillment. Most research on CE is normative about technological approaches and interpretations for production and ... -
Energy and buildings research: challenges from the new production of knowledge
Berker, Thomas; Bharathi, Krishna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The current state and future challenges of energy and buildings research are explored from the perspective of the social study of science. Major trends in knowledge production are considered for practices within current ... -
FM perceptions on occupant impact and the shaping of occupant engagement practice
Valle Kinloch, Cristian Roberto; Verhulst, Elli; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Junghans, Antje; Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose This paper aims to apply frame analysis to explore the mental models by which building managers interpret the impact of building occupants on energy use and rationalize their approach to occupant engagement. De ... -
Frontline Innovation - How frontline care professionals innovate welfare technology and services
Bergschöld, Jenny M (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:279, Doctoral thesis, 2018) -
Greenhouse gas balances in Zero Emission Buildings – Electricity conversion factors revisited
Andresen, Inger; Lien, Kristian Myklebust; Berker, Thomas; Sartori, Igor (ZEB Project report;, Research report, 2017) -
“In the morning I just need a long, hot shower:” a sociological exploration of energy sensibilities in Norwegian bathrooms
Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This article proposes a new area of research centered on the study of how energy sensibilities—in terms of esthesia which is understood as responsiveness and awareness—are distributed and redistributed. Energy is approached ... -
Internett og radikalisering
Chaudhry, Haroon A. (Master thesis, 2019)Radikalisering har blitt en økende bekymring i både Norge og internasjonalt. I de senere årene har flere påpekt internett som en viktig kilde til radikalisering. Regjeringen lanserte i 2014 en handlingsplan mot radikalisering ... -
Introducing the MINDER research project: Methodologies for Improvement of Non-residential buildings' Daily Energy Efficiency Reliability
Berker, Thomas; Gansmo, Helen Jøsok; Junghans, Antje (Journal article, 2014)In the Norwegian building sector, we are currently witnessing the transition from a realization gap - the gap between availability of solutions and their implementation - to a reliability gap: the gap between the building's ... -
Kunnskaping for en bedre verden? En kvalitativ studie av samarbeid mellom akademia og næringsliv
Aas, Sigri (Master thesis, 2018)I de senere årene har teknologi og et innovasjonspreget partnerskap mellom akademia og næringsliv tilsynelatende blitt stadig viktigere. Med dette har det fulgt et fokus på tverrfaglighet, en ny kunnskapsøkonomi, og vi har ... -
Living labs in a zero emission neighbourhood context
Woods, Ruth; Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The Research Centre for Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart cities has established a concept for living labs. Central to the concept is an experimental format that offers some control over the social and physical ... -
Mellom halm og teknologi - En kvalitativ studie av brukere av grønne boliger
Lyngstad, Line Elisabeth Vikhagen (Master thesis, 2017)Det grønne skiftet er et grep for å redusere de globale menneskeskapte klimaendringene. For byggindustrien i Norge ble denne omveltningen definert som krav mot passivhusnivå som nå i 2017 er gjeldende. Kravene skapte en ... -
Occupant engagement in the office environment: role assumptions about the building manager
Valle, Roberto; Boks, Casper; Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose This paper aims to put the building manager (BM) as the professional responsible for implementing occupant engagement initiatives (OEIs) in the work environment and discusses the challenges they may experience in ... -
Paradoxes of Design: Energy and Water Consumption and the Aestheticization of Norwegian Bathrooms 1990-2008
Berker, Thomas; Gansmo, Helen Jøsok (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)In this article we explore the widely held assumption that aestheticized consumption is bound to escalate. In our study of 20 years of representations of bathrooms in Norway’s most popular interior design magazine Bonytt, ...