Identification of Waste Types and Their Root Causes in Green-Building Project Delivery Process

Seyis, Senem; Ergen, Esin; Pizzi, Emilio

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001038

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“…The results of this study contribute to academia, industry, and policy regarding green-building development and provide insight on how the different managerial practitioners perceive their purviews to influence the consequences of quality failures. Reworks is a pervasive issue in the construction industry with green buildings' sustainability characteristics can lead to more reworks vulnerability with cost overrun implications [52,90]. There is already an upfront cost investment for embarking in a green building and having cost overruns can deter owners from committing to green buildings.…”

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“…Seyis et al (2016) reported defects, revisions, and rework to be the main waste types during the design and construction stages [52]. Based on this premise and interviews with managerial practitioners in the pilot study stage, eight quality failure consequences were inferred (Figure 7).…”

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“…However, no manager stated that meeting the KPIs of green buildings was easier than for conventional buildings. This may be attributed to limited types of energy efficient materials and technology types being available within proximity in the market [52]. The SMs found that non-conformance related to sustainability was more likely to be rectified as a design rework rather than as a construction rework, as shown in Figure 11.…”

Section: Sustainability and Quality: Relationships And Performancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Managerial Practitioners’ Perspectives on Quality Performance of Green-Building Projects

Raouf

Al-Ghamdi

2020

Buildings

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The quality performance of a green building will have an overarching effect on its objectives because of the high compliance needed to achieve superior performance expectations. Achieving sustainability objectives is challenging and requires the collaboration of diverse professionals that resume unique responsibilities. In this study, the different managerial practitioners involved in green-building projects were investigated in terms of their awareness levels regarding the quality performance measures, their perceived abilities to influence quality failure consequences, the degree to which the cost-of-quality (CoQ) of components can be evaluated, and the effect the sustainability traits have on the quality performance. Accordingly, a survey approach was adopted, and the results were analyzed using Pearson’s chi-squared (χ2) test, the relative importance index (RII), Mann–Whitney U-Test, and Student’s T-test. According to the results, the priorities of the different managerial types and their overall impressions of cost computability were different, which needs to be considered when CoQ evaluations are done based on practitioners’ views. In addition, the sustainability traits of green buildings impact achieving quality metrics with the consequences of design rework occurring in the construction stage may lead to denouncing sustainability traits. The results of this research study reveal the need to consider the differences between managerial types when evaluating CoQ for projects and the increased sensitivity for such evaluation in a green building context. The paper contributes to underscoring the important connection between quality performance and sustainability traits of a green building project and calls for researchers to formulate methods with more rigor to reach a set structure for quality cost accounting as an industry standard. Intricate evaluation methods will enable strategic decision making on quality performance budgets to be more substantiated.

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Managerial Practitioners’ Perspectives on Quality Performance of Green-Building Projects

Raouf

Al-Ghamdi

2020

Buildings

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“…A number of studies have been undertaken to examine the practices improving the environmental sustainability of the construction industry, e.g. off-site construction (Mao et al, 2013), energysaving technologies (Du et al, 2014), green construction (Shi et al, 2013) and green buildings (Seyis et al, 2015). However, few studies attempted to investigate how the various economic, social and environmental sustainability aspects, constituting the holistic sustainability concept, are perceived and performed by the construction firms.…”

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Discovering the Transition Pathways toward Sustainability for Construction Enterprises: Importance-Performance Analysis

Chang

Zuo

Soebarto

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J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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There has been growing awareness and demand for construction enterprises transition towards sustainability with an aim to maximize the economic, social and environmental values of construction. This presents a significant challenge to both policy makers and industry practitioners as sustainability is such a complex concept that includes various aspects whereas construction firms are usually resource constrained. There is lack of studies classifying various aspects of sustainability according to their managerial priorities, thereby identifying the efficient transition pathways towards higher sustainability levels for construction enterprises. This paper proposes Transition Pathways towards Sustainability (TPS) for the construction enterprises by conducting an importance-performance analysis of the critical sustainability aspects. The construction enterprises were firstly classified into different clusters based on their sustainability performance by means of cluster analysis. Consequently, the importance-performance analysis was employed to classify the various sustainability aspects of the identified firm clusters, followed by the development of the TPS. The results show that although there is general agreement on the high importance of economic sustainability aspects, significant differences exist in the perceptions and performance of social and environmental sustainability aspects across firm groups. Therefore, there are considerably different transition pathways for the various firm groups towards higher sustainability levels. This research provides a useful reference for construction enterprises to evaluate their positions in the sustainability transition journey and to optimize their resource allocation for sustainable development.

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“…There is increase in cost and time of project completion, while quality is reduced in the process (Denzer & Hedges, 2011;Kim, Greene, & Kim, 2014;Nofera & Korkmaz, 2010). Swarup, Korkmaz and Riley (2011) revealed that the level of sustainability rating is reduced in the process, while costly wastages (Seyis, Ergen, and Pizzi (2015), and poor safety performance are also experienced (Fortunato III, Hallowell, Behm, & Dewlaney, 2011).…”

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Motivating Project Owners to Increase Their Commitment towards Improving the Delivery Performance of Green Building Projects

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Identification of Waste Types and Their Root Causes in Green-Building Project Delivery Process

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Managerial Practitioners’ Perspectives on Quality Performance of Green-Building Projects

Discovering the Transition Pathways toward Sustainability for Construction Enterprises: Importance-Performance Analysis

Motivating Project Owners to Increase Their Commitment towards Improving the Delivery Performance of Green Building Projects

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