Barriers and drivers of Sustainability of construction and design: Green Building in Jordan Research Paper 2022

Running head: RESEARCH PAPER
Research Paper
Topic: Barriers and drivers of Sustainability of construction and design: Green
Building in Jordan
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Abstract
Jordan is a country in the Middle East region of Asia which is considered a developing
country. The country has to make sure that the accommodation system for the country,
including the locals are built at a much affordable and economical base as to make sure that
the government of Jordan would find it easier and effective to implement. At the same time,
the country consumes the energy infiltration required by importing it from other countries.
Therefore, the country has to entertain various demands of the other countries that have been
providing them with the energy sources as well. This is why, the country has been trying to
implement a sustainability of development of the green buildings in Jordan with the
consideration of the design and economic plan for the country so that many issues would be
solved at once. This would include the various ways by which the energy consumption can be
eliminated for the accommodation systems so that the country does not have to depend on the
other countries for energy resources and at the same time they do not have to think about
potentially handling the colonising systems for the other countries due to their supply or
export of the energy sources. At the same time, the green building facilities are being looked
at for providing an economic solution for the sustainability of construction systems as well.
For this, the probable drivers and the barriers for the sustainable green building design and
affordable economy calculation would be performed through this research as described in
details below. The likes of the research would dwell deeply into the potential of the
sustainable planning and how Jordan can successfully establish a plan for the green building
developments in the most feasible way possible.

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Acknowledgement
The step by step conduction of this particular research and the experiences gathered behind
this was so enriching for me that I consider myself lucky to be associated with this particular
research. I have been able to make myself much more knowledgeable and enriched in ideas
about sustainability of development of the green buildings in Jordan with the consideration of
the design and economic plan with this research. I have also gained extreme hold over the
analysis of data that I did not believe was possible to be done by me. The challenges that I
faced along the lines of conducting this research were also redeemed while working on the
task. I would also like to say that my peers, my professor and the associated people with the
research deserves as much accolades for completing this research. I would also like to thank
my supervisor _____________________ as without the constant support and guidance from
my supervisor’s end, I could not have successfully completed my research paper. The
research papers that I have gone through and their authors equally deserve mention in this
regard. Without these unending supports, I could not have done such an enlightening research
paper on this equally challenging subject.
Heartiest thanks,
Yours sincerely,
_______________________

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction..............................................................................................................5
Background of the study........................................................................................................5
Research Aims and Objectives...............................................................................................6
Research Questions................................................................................................................6
Problem Statement.................................................................................................................7
Rationale of the study.............................................................................................................8
Structure of the study.............................................................................................................9
Chapter 2: Literature Review...................................................................................................11
Introduction..........................................................................................................................11
Findings of the research.......................................................................................................12
Drivers of sustainability of construction and design in Jordan........................................13
Barriers against sustainability of construction and design...............................................17
Gap in the Literature............................................................................................................22
Chapter Summary.................................................................................................................23
Chapter 3: Research Methodology...........................................................................................27
Introduction..........................................................................................................................27
Method Outline....................................................................................................................28
Research Philosophy............................................................................................................30
Research Approach..............................................................................................................31
Research Design...................................................................................................................32
Data Collection Process.......................................................................................................32
Hypothesis............................................................................................................................34
Chapter Summary.................................................................................................................35
Chapter 4: Results and Discussion...........................................................................................35
Introduction..........................................................................................................................35
Empirical Results.................................................................................................................38
Descriptive study..................................................................................................................44
Inferential study...................................................................................................................46
Summary..............................................................................................................................47
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Recommendations.......................................................................48
Conclusion............................................................................................................................48
Linking with Objectives.......................................................................................................49
Recommendations................................................................................................................50
Limitations of research.........................................................................................................50
References................................................................................................................................52
Appendix..................................................................................................................................63

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Research Questionnaires......................................................................................................63
Table 1: Standard Deviation, Mean and Ranking of the Identified Drivers............................39
Table 2: KMO and Bartlett's Test............................................................................................39
Table 3: Total Variance............................................................................................................40
Table 4: Standard Deviation, Mean and Ranking of the Identified Barriers...........................42
Table 5: KMO and Bartlett’s Test............................................................................................42
Table 6: Total Variance............................................................................................................43

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Background of the study
Behind every construction project lies the project planning that has to consider the
sustainability behind the planning of the construction project. Identifying the planning for the
construction project has to be done according to the sustainability of the planning. Without
the proper identification of the sustainability in planning in case of a construction project,
there would be extreme cases where the barriers would have the potential of causing several
problems to the entire project planning (Zawaydeh 2017). The requirement of sustainability
in the construction industry is getting fiercely incorporated with every passing day as per the
requirement of any organisation or even a country as a whole. Jordan is a country that is
looking forward to the approaches for developing a construction project like green building to
make sure that the people in Jordan can have an economic and sustainable buildings also
thinking about the conservation of energy in other components not having to import energy
from other countries and help them colonize (Kibert 2016). The standardization policies are
also varied for different countries and what Jordan things about incorporating for a
construction project might not be applicable according to the other countries. The situations
by which country like Jordan can establish successful and sustainable green building project
might also be different from any other country (Hughes and Sharrock 2016). For every
project in construction, there lies release barriers and drivers that effect the construction
project in different ways. This is why the green building development for a country like
Jordan would not only become one of the most economic strategies but also the construction
development analysis that would follow through the green building development project for
sustainable and economic accommodation.

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Based on this particular research topic, the following dissertation would continue in
describing how the impact of the barriers and drivers would affect the sustainability of green
building development projects project in Jordan.
Research Aims and Objectives
Research Aims
The primary aim of this research is to identify the factors that affect the construction
of green building projects in Jordan and also find out how these factors that happens to form
a barrier for the construction and also the factors that drive the sustainability of the
construction would affect the green building projects. According to the variance of
information found throughout the research project the constraints and the enhancing factors
for the project would be forming a strategy to mitigate all the problems or negative effects
that would be identified with a possible solution provided for the arising issues.
Research objectives
The objectives of the research would be as follows:
 To research and explore the current state of the construction and real estate
industry market in Jordan.
 To analyse the sustainability of the Green Building Developments in Jordan.
 To investigate how the green building construction projects would be
sustainable for the economic and affordable housing activities in Jordan.
 To analyse the issues and barriers during the development of the Green
Buildings in Jordan and find out the solutions for the barriers as well.
Research Questions
The developed research questions for this particular study would be considered as the
factors that might affect the research topic in some way or the other and based on these

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factors it would be identified about how positively or negatively have these been affecting the
green building projects in Jordan. Finding the possible answers to these problems for research
questions would bring about the possible strategy to solve the issues identified in the
research. Following would be the research questions as developed according to this particular
research topic:
 What is the current market scenario of the real estate construction
development in Jordan about the Green Building development?
 What can possibly be the drivers as well as the barriers against the
development of the Green Buildings in Jordan?
 How can the barriers be successfully overpowered to develop a sustainability
of construction development project in Jordan?
Problem Statement
Jordan is a part of the Middle Eastern countries and this is why it is natural that
belonging from the still developing countries, Jordan would require sum of its primary
products from the other countries (Liu and Lin 2016). This also provides other developed
countries about a power to colonize in countries like Jordan. The primary reason behind this
is for Jordan to have a sustainable building idea that would help them in in developing a
proposed system for a plan to establish such a strategic project that it would not require
importing the resources from other developed countries (Masri, Yunus and Ahmad 2015).
This is why Jordan was thinking about developing their own system for or utilising the green
building strategy of their own so that not just there would be no requirement of infiltrating
energy importing it from other developed countries but it will also provide Jordan with
several other facilities like having their own housing systems and establishments which
would not only provide the accommodation at the most economical rates but also provide
them with all sorts of facilities like preparing for not letting the developed countries colonize