Sustainable Green Construction Management in UK

DISSERTATION
(Sustainable green construction management in
UK)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................1
Background of the study..............................................................................................................1
Research aim and objectives........................................................................................................4
Research Hypothesis....................................................................................................................4
Rationale of the study..................................................................................................................4
Significance of the study.............................................................................................................5
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................6
Theme 1: Introduction to sustainable green Construction Industry in UK..................................6
Theme 2: Sustainable Construction Implementation.................................................................10
Theme 3: Poor Performance of Construction Industry..............................................................14
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...........................................................................18
Research type.............................................................................................................................18
Research philosophy..................................................................................................................19
Research approach.....................................................................................................................20
Research design.........................................................................................................................20
Research strategy.......................................................................................................................22
Data collection techniques.........................................................................................................22
Data population/ Sampling........................................................................................................23
Data analysis..............................................................................................................................24
Ethical consideration.................................................................................................................25
Research Limitations.................................................................................................................26
CHAPTER 4: DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS............................................................27
Survey findings..........................................................................................................................27
Interview results.........................................................................................................................42
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.....................................................46
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................46
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................48
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................50
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................52
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Questionnaire.............................................................................................................................52
Interview checklist.....................................................................................................................53
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Title: Sustainable Green construction management in UK
Background of the study
The main concept behind sustainable green construction is development of
environmentally friendly buildings in UK. The reason of promoting green construction to
promote minima usage of resources in the conventional building construction. With this the
concept of green construction have a constant belief of minimal waste production from
conventional buildings. A sustainable or green building is a resultant of effective measured
focused on increasing efficiency of the resources used in construction of building including
energy, materials and water along with minimizing the impacts on human health and
environment through waste produced by buildings. The achievement of green sustainable
construction includes designing, better siting, construction methods and use of technologies. The
green building is a practice of creating structures and use of different processes which are
environmental responsible and recourse efficient throughout the life cycle of building from
construction, design's siting, maintenance, management, deconstruction and renovation. There
are different components in the green sustainable construction and most importance are water,
energy and material and health to make green building more sustainable. The main motive
behind promotion of green sustainable construction is restoration and enhancement of natural
environment for providing the occupants an experience of healthy living.
The process of greenhouse construction is recognized as an integrative approach
including assemble of people in order to generate new ideas of sustainability and sharing them in
order to implement them in the construction process of building to save money and encourage
healthy living and protection of environment. Under the concept of green construction, the whole
cost of building is considered while conventional building project includes initial cost of design
and construction cost.
Green house construction management is the concept is related with building the
environmentally friendly structures and buildings along with combination of other components
including sustainable constriction practices, use of sustainable building materials into
construction and reduction of the wastage and impact on the environment. The objective under
green construction management do not end with completion of the green infrastructure it also
includes the risk associated which requires continues monitoring in order to serve the exact
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purpose with which they being constructed and being erected. The leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) is a rating system given on the design, operation, construction
and maintenance of green buildings. At the current times the World Bank Building council is
conducting research over finding out the effects of green building on the health and productivity
of the users of green buildings. Under the management of green building the buildings are given
a statue of silver, gold and platinum indicating the level of energy conservation and the
contribution of green building in protection of the environment.
Conventional building projects relies on extensive use of natural resources and utilizes a
huge amount of energy. The conventional buildings usually account for 39% of the overall use of
energy and utilises around 68% of overall electricity produced in US. It was also presented in
green building data that conventional buildings usually lead to 38% of overall emission of carbon
dioxide which is considered as a major source of greenhouse gas. Thus, based on this it can be
analysed that conventional buildings are not safe for the environment as well as, human health. It
is engaged in excessive consumption of energy and resources which hampers the balance in
nature. Thus, there is a need to develop sustainable green construction project in order to
minimise the use of energy and resources and reduce the emission of carbon dioxide in
environment. Proper management of sustainable green construction will also support to conserve
and protect the environment and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
With the lack of proper knowledge abs development of the green buildings the issues
arise over how to effectively manage the green building and reduce the carbon emission or
wastage from such buildings. With lack of knowledge and difficulty in identification of proper
measures to green effects in the buildings the management becomes more difficult in order to
manage the building after their construction. The challenges faced in management of sustainable
green construction also includes the limited information over the products which are used in
development for sustainable construction. The overall concept of sustainability green
construction is over erecting such building which are environmentally friendly and its
management is related with managing the activities in such a way that the non-environmentally
friendly activities and its effect re minimal. The challenges faced in this process are being
investigated in the present research study.
The present research project is made over the sustainable green construction in UK and
the challenges and obstacle faced in management of the green construction. In this regard a
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research proposes have been made which includes research aim, objective, questions and
hypothesis which is duly approved by the tutor. The present research study includes detailed
investigation over the issues and challenges faced in management of sustainable green
construction. The project is present in 5 different chapters which start with introduction including
the background of the study, aim, objective, questions and hypothesis along with presenting
rationale and significance of the dissertation. The next is literature review where views and
opinion of different authors, writers and researcher are presented over the research topic of
sustainable green construction in UK and challenges and obstacles faces in its management. The
literature review is presented over the themes created from the objective of the research. After
this the research methodology is explained which clearly define the methods of conducting and
carrying out the research. The research methodology has explained the manner of data collection,
analysis and with explaining the flow of research project form one to another stage. After this
data analysis have been presented in the research study which includes the data collected is being
analysed to reach the outcome over the research topic of sustainable green construction and
challenges faced in its management in UK. The last part of the research project is conclusion
and recommendation where the researcher have presented the findings and learning form
research project and have presented. Recommendation in form of strategies for overcoming the
management challenges faced by sustainable green construction are presented at the end of
dissertation and the study is completed by putting the relevant references and source material
which are being refereed for collection of data and as guideline for completion of the research
study.
Challenges faced by the green construction company in relation with retaining of
sustainable aspects includes factors such as Managing project cost, unskilled labour force and
employees, inappropriate designing & its related documents etc. It is very much important for
business organisation to undertake sustainable business procedure and process so that it can help
in reducing negative impact of business if any. Also, by using the concept of reuse, recycle of
company owns products and services, every company can make sustainable development and
growth as well. Furthermore, by having adequate knowledge and information about different
techniques and methods related to business procedures can help company in minimizing its
business expenses thereby increasing overall profit margin.
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Research aim and objectives
Aim:
The main aim of the project is to identify the challenges and obstacles faced in managing
sustainable green construction in UK.
Objectives:
 To identify the need for sustainable green construction management in UK
 To determine the steps required to develop sustainable green construction
 To analyse the challenges and obstacles that develop in sustainable green construction
management
 To develop strategies to overcome the challenges of sustainable green construction
management
Research questions
1. How to identify the need for sustainable green construction management in UK?
2. What are the steps required to develop sustainable green construction?
3. What are the challenges and obstacles face in developing the sustainable green
construction management?
Research Hypothesis
Sustainable green construction management are often associated with challenges such that
unskilled labour force and employees, inappropriate designing & its related documents.
Rationale of the study
The research rationale for the present dissertation includes the objective of conducting the
research on the specific topic and why it is importance. Apart from this the rationale also present
the motive of selection of particular area over which the research is being carried out. The
present dissertation is prepared over the challenges and obstacle faced for the management of
sustainable green construction. The objective of conducting research over this topic is that there
is research present overt the benefits and concept of the sustainable green construction and green
building in UK. But only fewer studies have undertaken the research in direction of investigating
the challenges faced by the green construction. The concept of green building is only a decade
older in UK which is not much explored and researched upon in context of challenges and issues
faced in managing green buildings and its constructions. This lead the researcher to select the
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particular topic to investigate the challenges and issues faced in the UK region as the concept is
only decade older and this not much investigated by any researcher.
Significance of the study
The research significance describes the contribution made by the study with depicting its
importance for the society as a whole and contribution to individual and the future researcher and
academic learners. The significance of this research study over management of sustainable green
construction and obstacle and challenges faced there in, will make a huge contribution to the UK
society in understanding the concept of green construction and how its management is facing
problem in keeping its objective intact in meeting the environmental protection requirement.
The research will also prove assistance to the future researcher in conducting further research or
taking help from this research in conducting their research as well. The present searches study
will also assist the individual students who are academic learners to use this study as a base and
start their researches over similar topic in the future.
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