Sustainable building processes' challenges and strategies: The relative important index approach
Sustainable building processes' challenges and strategies: The relative important index approach
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10.1016/j.clet.2022.100455
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2022-04-01
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Li, Rita Yi Man
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Ayarkwa, Joshua;Opoku, De-Graft Joe;Li, Rita Yi Man
由于需要最大限度地减少行业的不利影响，全球建筑行业越来越多地倡导可持续发展。关注可持续性的一个重要领域是项目管理团队的问题，因为他们从项目的启动到完成都参与其中。许多研究调查并倡导了建筑行业内广泛的可持续发展实践。然而，在解决可持续性问题时，很少有人关注建设项目管理团队。本研究旨在对挑战和缓解策略进行实证分析，以提高项目管理团队采用可持续建筑流程的准备程度。为此，它对文献进行了广泛的批判性审查，确定了 16 项挑战和 16 项缓解策略，并对 200 名加纳建筑行业专业人士进行了横断面调查。使用描述性统计和相对重要性指数排名对调查获得的数据进行分析。研究表明，培训和教育不足、对绿色技术不熟悉以及绿色建筑实践和材料的初始成本较高是阻碍项目管理团队实施可持续建筑流程的主要挑战。该研究进一步揭示了重要的缓解策略，例如对利益相关者进行绿色建筑未来效益的教育、让具有绿色建筑背景的人员参与进来，以及在可行性研究的早期设定可持续的优先事项和目标。本文的价值在于帮助项目管理团队了解这些挑战并制定策略将其转化为建筑行业的机遇。
Sustainability has been increasingly advocated by the global construction industry due to the need to minimise the industry's adverse impacts. An important area when focusing on sustainability is the issue of project management teams since they are involved from the project's inception to its completion. Many studies have investigated and advocated a wide range of sustainability practices within the construction industry. However, little attention has been geared towards construction project management teams when addressing the issues of sustainability. This study aims to provide an empirical analysis of the challenges and mitigating strategies for enhancing project management teams' readiness in the adoption of sustainable building processes. It does so by undertaking an extensive critical review of literature resulting in the identification of sixteen challenges and sixteen mitigation strategies and conducted a cross-sectional survey among 200 Ghanaian construction industry professionals. Data obtained from the survey was analysed using descriptive statistics and relative importance index rankings. The study revealed that inadequate training and education, unfamiliarity with green technologies, and higher initial costs of green construction practices and materials are the key challenges that hinder project management teams' implementation of sustainable building processes. The study further revealed the significant mitigation strategies such as educating stakeholders on the future benefits of green buildings, engaging personnel with green building background, and setting sustainable priorities and goals early in the feasibility study. The value of this paper is to help project management teams to understand these challenges and strategize to turn them into opportunities for the construction industry.