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Engaging Practitioners to Deliver Government Carbon and Energy Phased Reduction Targets: Toward a Web 3.0 Approach

Authors:
Yacine Rezgui
Haijiang Li
Tom Beach
Ioan Petri

Keywords: User engagement; Web 3.0; Knowledge Management; Ontology; Sustainability

Abstract:
The construction industry is under pressure to increase the sustainability of its practices to meet United Kingdom’s commitments to alleviating climate change. This paper, through the use of a mixed method approach, explores the readiness and level of engagement of construction stakeholders in adopting government sustainability agendas. Limited sustainability best practice, regulation awareness, and information provision deficiencies emerged as key themes from the initial survey. Subsequent combined consultations explored stakeholders’ knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values and behaviours, and helped identify key barriers to sustainability engagement. This has informed the participative development of a “one-stop-shop” web-based platform that provides integrated access to sustainability resources in the form of interactive, dynamic, and user-oriented services, delivered via discrete "widgets", that exploit web 2.0 concepts, including semantics, user profiling, and professional networking. The innovative dimension of the solution lies in its open, scalable and polymorphic context-based widgets approach that reconfigure and update themselves to respond to changing user context and (sustainability related) queries, while enabling serendipitous information and knowledge discovery. The authors believe that the proposed web portal (a) has the potential to engage further practitioners in delivering sustainable interventions, and (b) contributes to the ongoing debate and shaping of Web 3.0 and beyond.

Pages: 73 to 79

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-306-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013