GREEN STRUCTURAL STEEL INDUSTRY 2
Introduction
One industry that provides important construction material, steel, is the structural steel industry
(Askeland & Wright, 2015). However, there are negative by-products produced. In the
process, for example, wanting energy consumption, greenhouse gas emission and consumption
of nonrenewable resources during material production (Almorza, Longhurst, Brebbia, &
Barnes, 2017). The commendable progress of the steel industry made over the years in
reducing its environmental impacts still has room for improvement. Lately, most of the industries
in the concerned field make use of traditional delivery methods during design execution. Hence,
professionals within the steel industry face drawbacks to their traditional systems (Spence &
Kultermann, 2016). For example, adversarial relations between the team members in projects,
pollution, construction and design delay as well as increased costs. On this note, the structural
steel industry looks for green, efficient and effective project delivery methods (Madsen &
Madsen, 2016).
Problem Statement and Research Questions
The recent concern in exploring available opportunities through project delivery methods in the
steel industry seeks to minimize bottlenecks coming up during the industry’s functioning (Gido,
Clements, & Baker, 2017). One promising delivery method lies in the study of the Integrated
Project Delivery (IPD) components (Fischer, Ashcraft, Khanzode, & Reed, 2017).
Integrated Project Delivery method merging in steel industries’ undertaking has the capability of
creating less waste, for example reducing the mass of material produced in excess, cutting back
on erection as well as fabrication errors, apart from having lesser Requests for Information
(Rebentisch, 2017). Additionally, through IPD, the steel industry could involve all secondary
and key stakeholders during projects’ design phases. Key stakeholders include the architects,

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