RESIDENTIAL AND OFFICE BUILDINGS REPRESENT, IN FRANCE, MORE THAN 40% OF FINAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION, WHICH MEANS THAT THIS SECTOR IS A CHOSEN TARGET OF PUBLIC POLICIES. THE REGULATIONS ARE MULTIPLYING AND WEIGH ON ALL BUILDING PROFESSIONALS (FROM THE CONCEPTION TO THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION) AND ON THE OCCUPANTS. THE FORMER ARE REQUESTED TO FIND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN CONSTRUCTION AND IN RENOVATION, WHILE THE LATTER ARE ASKED TO REFORM THEIR DAILY HABITS, TOWARDS MORE CONSERVATION, EVEN TO ADAPT THEIR LIFESTYLES TO THE TECHNICAL SYSTEMS WHICH ARE IMPOSED UPON THEM, AD TO ADHERE TO ISSUES OF ENERGY TRANSITION. TERRITORIAL CONFIGURATION IS ALSO QUESTIONED AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AND/OR AT THE LEVEL OF LOCAL COLLECTIVITIES, OF CITIES AND UP TO MEGACITIES.
Most of the issues, which, for some amongst them, are just beginning to be worked on by the social sciences, are found at an intersection of technical and social themes. All contributions are welcome, but we can, amongst other issues, question the role of the different actors in the processes of conception, of production and of the maintenance of buildings considered as energy efficient, including in the process engaging with alternative forms of cooperation between the contractor, the project manager and the inhabitants. We are also interested in the conservation requirements involved from a point of view of the types of domestic organizations and professional organizations submitted to new social norms and morals. We reserve a significant place to papers which question the role of new technology in this theme, as well as those which explore the ideologies and the social representations relative to these new types of buildings, like the contradictions which may arise with a look at other dimensions (from lifestyles to the quality of inside air in the buildings, to the treatment of energy precarity and methods of financing). Conference contributions can explore the relationship between architectural conceptions and ways of living, on the role or roles assigned to technology, including to reflexive technologies, through the creation of quantitative objects for saving energy and the learning curves necessarily associated with them, to the way the occupants take into account the conception of energy and energy modelization.
Users being the most often placed in restricted situations in these ecological buildings, a number of actions are put into place to accompany their learning. Whether it is lodging or work spaces, those contributions related to the tools of accompanying change are also welcome. These tools may be sensitivity campaigns, forms of coaching, nudges (a push in an eco direction) or the deployment of “smart-meters” destined for homeowners or occupant collectives (offices, companies…), new formations destined for professionals working on buildings before building (design, conception) and after, at the work site.
In the end, we can question the historical and socio-techical conditions of the production of such notions as “energy performance” or “energy efficiency”.