Sustainable practices barriers towards green projects in Malaysia

12th International Civil Engineering Post Graduate Conference;3rd International Symposium on Expertise of Engineering Design

土木建筑工程

Klufallah, M.^1 ; Ibrahim, I.S.^2 ; Moayedi, F.^3

School of Built Environment, University of Reading Malaysia, Persiaran Graduan, Kota Ilmu, Educity, Iskandar Puteri, Johor

79200, Malaysia^1

School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi, Skudai, Johor

81310, Malaysia^2

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Tronoh, Perak

32610, Malaysia^3

关键词: Best practices;    Carbon emissions;    Construction projects;    Construction stakeholders;    Design and technology;    Malaysian construction industry;    Resources consumption;    Sustainable practices;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/220/1/012053/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/220/1/012053

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Malaysian construction industry significantly contributes as an empowerment to its development vision of 2020 by reducing up to 40% of carbon emission. Moreover, the industry accounts as threat to the environment, not only in terms of natural resources consumption but also in emitting million tons of carbon emission annually. In fact, Malaysia is categorized the 30th in the world's ranking in carbon emission level. Several studies attempt to investigate and review barriers that face construction stakeholders in order to provide integration of sustainability in construction industry. However, the barriers were lacking in terms of addressing carbon emission aspects of sustainable practice and limit the emissions from construction projects in Malaysia. This paper investigates the major barriers of organization in achieving sustainability's best practice. The identified barriers from the perspective of construction stakeholders in Malaysia were categorized based on factor analysis, which are professional and capacity, design and technologies, cost and finance, and, knowledge and culture.