Towards sustainable construction: promotion and best practices

Pitt, Michael; Tucker, Matthew; Riley, Michael W.; Longden, Jennifer

doi:10.1108/14714170910950830

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“…As stated in related literature as earlier reviewed, sustainability is the ability to sustain the earth's resources while it is being exploited. The areas involved in sustainability are environmental responsibility, social awareness, and economic profitability [4]. It can be clearly seen that there are two parties from each department that do not possess the whole understanding of sustainable concept.…”

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“…One of them is sustainability is the ability in sustaining the earth's resources while it is being exploited. The areas involved in sustainability are environmental responsibility, social awareness, and economic profitability [4]. In this context, sustainable concept is the idea of maintaining current resources for our future generation although the resources are being used for different purposes.…”

Section: Principle Of Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Acceptance of the Application of Sustainable Concept in Malaysia’s Waste Management Infrastructure - Landfill

2017

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Abstract. Sustainable concept has been a topic that is of broad and current interest in applying in many different areas of development. A sustainable concept encompasses three main criteria, namely environmental, social, and economic. This sustainable concept has usually been defined as the ability to develop something to meet the present needs yet it does not compromise the ability of future generation to meet their needs. Whereas waste management plays an important role in managing the municipal solid wastes produced. The landfill has been widely used in the disposal of solid wastes. However, the negative impacts caused by landfill have led to the need for application of sustainable concept. The acceptance of sustainable concept by stakeholders will determine the possibility of moving into sustainable waste management. This study aims at assessing the of acceptance by the stakeholders in the application of the sustainable concept into landfill. The research was conducted by reviewing of the past similar researches and through interview with ten waste management stakeholders. The results obtained show that there are some limitations in terms of understanding on the concept of sustainability and the willingness in accepting on this concept. Further action should taken in and moving towards sustainable waste management.

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Acceptance of the Application of Sustainable Concept in Malaysia’s Waste Management Infrastructure - Landfill

2017

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“…However, since pervasively used in working practice, it was considered relevant as interviewers to become familiar with these topics in order to recognize them, and subsequently redirect interviewees to focus on issues linked to specific boundary objects, the interaction between them and their experiences with the aim of teasing out possible relationships relevant to the notion of sustainable construction as examples of standardized packages. Drawing from current literature and 83 questionnaires, Pitt et al [50] rank widely reported drivers and barriers of sustainable construction, highlighting which social, institutional and material actors are seen as more or less challenging ( Figure 4). Next, relevant details regarding institutional and material actors in the Swiss context are provided.…”

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Between Research and Practice: Experts on Implementing Sustainable Construction

Bharathi

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2013

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Despite documented political support for energy reduction measures in Switzerland's built environment, as well as high international regard for its construction and research sectors, design practitioners and researchers perceive a diverse set of challenges involved in the implementation of green development solutions. Grounded in Science and Technology Studies (STS), observations drawn from 31 semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted with Swiss building industry experts provide insight into the relationships between designers, researchers and public authorities. A series of examples from the empirical data show how regulatory frictions and the challenges of implementing construction strategies into diverse domestic and international working contexts are ameliorated.

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“…Added to this is the unique position of FM as a business support pillar. It suffices to say therefore, that, the concept of sustainable FM is best described in terms of an organization's economic profitability, environmental responsibility and social awareness [13,28].…”

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“…There seems to be a wide recognition of the benefits and importance of incorporating sustainability into FM practice [2,3,13,22,23,25,26,[28][29][30], however, studies and literature focusing on the drivers of SFM are very few [2,25,26].…”

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A review of sustainable facilities management knowledge and practice

2016

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Abstract. Sustainability is seen as a far-reaching issue now, and one which the facilities management [FM] profession cannot overlook. This paper explores current sustainable facilities management [SFM] knowledge and practice with specific focus on performance as part of a research focus toward proposing a sustainable FM performance management framework for sustainable healthcare waste management in Malaysia. This paper utilized a review of extant literature on the subject of SFM, FM performance and FM development in Malaysia as source of information. Findings reflect the increasing recognition of the need for the strategic FM function, and how facilities managers are best positioned to drive organizations' sustainability agendas. In Malaysian context, this recognition is barely evident as findings show FM practice is still immature and predominantly operational. Unlike developed FM markets, FM relevance in Malaysia is being driven by the public sector. Also findings show a disharmony between organizations' sustainability priority areas and the responsibilities for facilities managers to execute them where the sustainability policy of organizations prioritize one FM service and the facilities managers' responsibilities prioritize another. As most of SFM implementation is driven by legislation this seems to strengthen the position that, organizations continue to view support services as non-value-adding, as unavoidable liabilities. The implication of this is the pressure on the FM function to continually express its strategic relevance to organizations by tangible value-adding performance output. This creates a new perspective to measuring and managing facilities performance. This paper therefore elevates the importance of FM performance management in SFM context taking into account the peculiar position of the facilities manager. This is seen as a way forward for FM to better express its value to the organization .

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Towards sustainable construction: promotion and best practices

Cited by 220 publications

References 13 publications

Acceptance of the Application of Sustainable Concept in Malaysia’s Waste Management Infrastructure - Landfill

Acceptance of the Application of Sustainable Concept in Malaysia’s Waste Management Infrastructure - Landfill

Between Research and Practice: Experts on Implementing Sustainable Construction

A review of sustainable facilities management knowledge and practice

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