Policy Adoption Issues of Green Building Technologies in Australia

This report investigates the hurdles and issues in the adoption and implementation of green building technologies in the Australian construction industry. It examines barriers to adopting green building policies, evaluates issues affecting their adoption, and identifies common challenges to effective policy implementation. The research employs both qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews and surveys with green building experts, to analyze the perspectives of stakeholders in the construction industry regarding the viability and need for green building policies. The study explores economic costs, the lack of financial schemes, skepticism about green technologies, and conflicts among stakeholders. The findings highlight the need for addressing these issues to enhance the scope of green building in the construction industry. The report concludes with an analysis of the data collected and provides recommendations for improving the adoption of green building policies.

ISSUES REGARDING
THE ADOPTION OF
GREEN BUILDING
POLICIES
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Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction and Background Information
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Methodology
Chapter 4: Data analysis and Findings
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Chapter 6: Recommendation
Reference
Appendix

Research Question
What are the main issues or hurdles faced in the
policy adoption and implementation of Green
Building Technologies in the construction industry
of Australia?
Purpose of the study:
 Examine barriers that persist in adopting green building policies
 evaluation of issues affecting the adoption of green building policies
 identify common challenges to effective policy adoption of green
building

Research Objectives
The concerned research aims to study the different hurdles and
issues which are found in the aspects of implementation of
policies regarding green building initiatives in the construction
industry
Construction industry and their perceptions regarding the
viability and need of implementation of green building policies,
in the economy of Australia

Motivation for the Research
 To check Technologies vis-à-vis conventional ones in the construction industry
in Australia?
 To check Are there sufficient databases and information available regarding
the adoption as well as profitability and sustainability of such technologies?
 To check What are the benefits perceived by the stakeholders from
implementation of the GB technologies?
 To check What are the threats perceived by the stakeholders from the
implementation of the GB technologies?
 To check What are the cost advantages or disadvantages of implementation of
GB technologies over conventional ones?
 To check What is the level of trust prevailing in the industry and among the
different stakeholders behind the implementation of the same?

Significance of the Research
 With the rise in demand of healthy lifestyles as well as with the increase in the
global concern regarding the environmental preservation and prevention of
greenhouse emissions, the concept of green building is taking a stole whether it is
the design of an office or a house
 There also remains considerable debates regarding the feasibility and cost
effectiveness of the concept of green building
 Need to take into consideration the initiative and concern of green building policy
adoptions as well as the aspects of the different hurdles which are expected to be
cropping up in the implementation of policy frameworks.
 To enhance the scopes of green building in the construction industry, while
planning for the process within the industry

Limitations/Constraints of the Research
 The study is limited to a sample of population.
 Due to time and cost, the questionnaire will rely on small sample of those who were issued
with survey questions.
 The research specifically concentrates on the respondents in Australia

Literature Review
Article Author Year Major Findings
Article that discuss
about the barriers
affecting environmental
management
Visscher, Laubscher,
and Chan
2016 Barriers that affect
affecting environmental
management systems
are information
scarcity, inadequate
information,
inappropriate
knowledge, and harsh
organizational culture.
Article that describe the
Australian case of
Green Building
Miller, Spivey, and
Florance
2008 With the paucities, it is
crucial to point out that
these hindrances are
correlated and in turn
affect implementation
of green building
policies in Australia.
Article that helped to
discuss the cost of
carrying out green
technology research
McAuley 2018 carrying out of green
technology research is
a matter that is tedious
to developers,
contractors, and clients

Literature Review
Article Author Year Major Findings
Article that discuss
about information lack
Nath 2014 Lack of information is
the critical barrier for
stakeholders to adopt
green policies
Article that Second
most widely-used
barrier to Green
Building program
Hwang, Zhu, Wang, &
Cheong
2017 several populations do
not understand green
technologies making
implementing the
programs trying
Article that review the
other costs associated
with Green Building
Visscher 2016 Third party costs
thwart embracing of
green building
policies

Literature Review
Article Author Year Major Findings
Article that discuss
about the first most
widely-used Optimal
Project Management
Delivery Systems
Love et al. 2012 governments play a
vital role in the
elevation and
relegation of green
technologies.
Article that Second
most widely-used
Optimal Project
Management Delivery
Systems
Koski & Lee 2014 Enforcing regulations
by the government are
critical for the
accomplishment of
government strategies,
and the nonexistence of
enforcement bodies can
creep up rules related
to green buildings like
in China

Literature Review
Article Author Year Major Findings
Article that discuss
about the first most
widely-used Optimal
Project Management
Delivery Systems
Joachim et al. 2015 Green designs are not
approved quickly in
several countries due
to inappropriate
knowledge to its
benefits, and this
discourages the
stakeholders to
participate in green
technology policy
enactment

Applied/Descriptive Research
 the concerned research takes a descriptive research design in order to examine and
analyse the issues and their impacts regarding the design and implementation of policy
frameworks for encouraging adaptation of the Green Building Technologies in the
construction sector of Australia.
 Both Qualitative and Quantitative techniques are used to collect, analyse and
summarise data