A Checklist for Assessing Sustainability Performance of Construction Projects

Abstract

Construction sustainability performance is indispensable to the attainment of sustainable development. Various techniques and management skills have previously been developed to help improving sustainable performance from implementing construction projects. However, these techniques seem not being effectively implemented due to the fragmentation and poor coordination among various construction participants. There is a lack of consistency and holistic methods to help participants implementing sustainable construction practice at various stages of project realisation. This paper develops a framework of sustainability performance checklist to help understanding the major factors affecting a project sustainability performance across its life cycle. This framework enables all project parties to assess the project sustainability performance in a consistent and holistic way, thus improving the cooperation among all parties to attain satisfactory project sustainability performance.

Evaluation of sustainability indicators of industrial buildings focused on petrochemical projects

“…Environmentally, there have been many contributors to the indicators; among them are Ali andAl Nsairat (2009), AlWaer et al (2008), Bakhoum and Brown (2012), Chen et al (2012), Larimian (2013), Shen et al (2007, 2011), and Ugwu and Haupt (2007. The developed indicators mostly focus on main categories such as site and land use, energy efficiency, water efficiency, materials, indoor environment quality, waste management, and pollution issues.…”

“…For instance, Shen et al (2007) posited the health and safety issues in environmental dimension and simultaneously safety issues in social dimension; San-Jos e et al (2007) and San-Jos e Lombera and Cuadrado Rojo (2010) considered the health and safety indicator in environmental dimension; and de C Infante et al (2013) considered air pollutants like NO x as an environmental indicator which has adverse effects on human health and at the same time states a pertinent indicator, work-related illness or death, in social dimension. Thus, there is no consensus on some indicators among previous research.…”

“…However, effects on local economy and development (AlWaer et al, 2008;Shen et al, 2007), supply and demand side (Shen et al , 2011, productivity and performance (AlWaer and Clements-Croome, 2010;AlWaer et al, 2008;Chen et al, 2012), profitability , and employment (AlWaer et al, 2008;Ugwu and Haupt, 2007) are among economic indicators that are considered in the literature.…”

Modelling, assessment and deployment of strategies for ensuring sustainable shielded metal arc welding process – a case study

“…Klassen and Whybark (1999) identified employee training as one of the important tools to incorporate environmental strategies. Shen et al (2007) used staff factor as an important criterion to deploy sustainability in a manufacturing environment. Training was seen as a solution for environmental problems by many researchers (Walker et al, 2008;Muduli et al, Table 4 Sustainable manufacturing measures (SMMs).…”

Quality assessment for recycling aggregates from construction and demolition waste: An image-based approach for particle size estimation

“…Despite its unquestionable contribution to the development of the worldwide society, the construction industry has also been perceived as a major source of environment degradation, with negative effects including land depletion and deterioration, energy consumption, dust and gas emissions, noise pollution and consumption of non-renewable natural resources (Ofori, 1992;Bossink and Brouwers, 1996;Sjostrom and Bakens, 1999;Shen et al, 2007;Poon and Chan, 2007). Among them, the production of large amounts of construction and demolition waste (C&D) is one of the most worrisome.…”