Strategic Construction Procurement: Green Strategy Analysis Report

This report provides an executive summary of strategic construction procurement, focusing on the development of green construction procurement strategies. It examines the involvement of government in green building construction, analyzing the Australian construction industry and the role of public road authorities in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The report reviews green construction procurement strategies, emphasizing the implementation of eco-friendly practices and the importance of setting standards for value proposition. It also explores the design for sustainability and management of green construction procurement, highlighting the integration of lean construction activities and the use of energy models. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of sustainable construction methods, stakeholder relationships, and effective project management solutions. The references include key publications on construction innovation, building information modeling, and sustainable design.

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Executive summary
The report was prepared to understand the various principles and theories required for the
development of green construction procurement strategies. The construction procurement
strategies were found to be effective, because of the abilities Among the various other topics, the
authors found that the green construction procurement had been the most effective not only for
making the construction management activities successful but also for doing it sustainably. A
brief guide for representing the rules, regulations and guidelines to manage green building
construction was done along with the ways of developing green construction strategies for the
development of a strong and sustainable environment.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Purpose............................................................................................................................................3
Critical review Part 1 Involvement of Government in green building
construction………………………………………………………………………………………..4
Critical review Part 2 Green construction procurement strategy.....................................................6
Critical review Part 3 Design for Sustainability and management of green construction
procurement.....................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The construction procurement strategy is the way of developing an effective framework
for designing the development projects, finance those, construct and manage resolving the
residual issues and complexities with ease. There are various essential components of the
procurement strategy of construction including a detailed documentation to understand the needs
and preferences of the stakeholders in business as well as manage the risks effectively. All these
construction project procurement strategies can bring positive as well as negative impact on the
supply chain activities. The various ways to manage the green construction procurement
strategies will be the main focus of this report (Akintoye, Goulding and Zawdie 2012).
Purpose
According to the authors or researchers, the main purpose of developing this report is to
find out the different aspects of green construction procurement and determine its impact on the
supply chain activities. The critical review is done for analysing the various research findings
and determines the efficiency of the green construction procurement strategies with ease and
effectiveness (Bynum, Issa and Olbina 2012). The green construction procurement can bring
considerable amount of transformation by reducing the costs of operations and yielding the best
value procurement for ensuring successful management of the construction activities in a
sustainable way.
Critical review Part 1 Involvement of Government in green building construction
Construction Procurement and State Government Strategy: Aligned or Disconnected?
Staples, Dalrymple

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According to the authors, the research topic focuses on the various important components
of construction procurement practices within the Australian construction industry. The research
is conducted to focus on the ways of motivating the contractions and provide them enough
scopes to use environment friendly practices for improving the performance of green house gases
emission within the construction procurement. Based on the responses of Staples and Dalrymple
(2016), the public road authorities and Government play vital roles in managing the initiatives
for decreasing the amount of green house gases emission during the construction procurement
life cycle (Staples and Dalrymple 2016). The objectives of reducing the GHGe could be reached
by managing an effective chain of construction procurement processes and transform the policies
of climate change and sustainability. The support by Government could further enhance the
efficiency of ways of adopting the green construction procurement policies and practices
effectively (Pietrosemoli and Monroy 2013).
To enable calculation of green house gases emission and benchmarking activities, the
Government and Australian road authorities must utilize the GHGe calculators, develop
benchmarks related to the sustainability, and ensure that the green construction procurement is
successful. Robichaud and Anantatmula (2010) stated that the data and information have been
collected to identify the lack of sufficient data and information that are used to monitor the
emissions of gases from both the operators and networks (Robichaud and Anantatmula 2010).
The information gap is improved by comparing the benchmarking activities with the amount of
emissions of GHG from the various construction projects.
Based on the Government initiatives, interviews were conducted with the managers of the
construction projects to maintain strategic alignment between the strategic plans and
procurement of construction. The Government strategies are aligned to focus on the priorities

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and manage the procurement of strategies for moving towards the strategic plan objectives
effectively. The Government measures created alignment between the strategic plans and
construction procurement activities and even established a centralized delivery capacity system
to ensure successful accomplishment of the construction project.
By using various construction models, The Government bodies considered the social,
economic, environmental factors and properly managed the green construction projects by
aligning with the principles of sustainability (Staples and Dalrymple 2016). These various
guidelines would not only help in considering the environment friendly practices of construction
procurement, but could even reduce the costs of operations, furthermore ensure procurement of
best value.
The researcher, while conducting the research considered the green construction
procurement as an innovation procedure that decreased the time and cost while handling the
construction activities and the performances improved later as well. According to Pietrosemoli
and Monroy (2013), the integration of business activities within the construction industry was
done by consolidating the horizontal and vertical supply chains and ensures proper management
of the relationships between the stakeholders, furthermore consume lesser energy during the
construction project and meet the completion budget and time (Pietrosemoli and Monroy 2013).
This should give rise to long term alliance or relationship between the stakeholders and the
researcher judged that proper fragmentized structure would be essential for improve production
and at the same time, manage sustainable practices during the construction project (Sanchez et
al. 2014). Therefore, from the researcher’s point of view, the Government strategies are aligned
with the construction procurement strategies.

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Critical review Part 2 Green construction procurement strategy
Evaluation framework for green procurement in road construction. Smart and Sustainable Built
Environment
Sanchez, Lehtiranta, Hampson, Kenley
The researcher would conduct the critical review for implementing the right kinds of
green construction procurement strategies and handle the environmental issues by using fewer
resources that the organisation can actually support. The increase in temperature could result in
changing the weather conditions as well as increase the sea water level, which could led to
several negative consequences. The green construction procurement strategy could prevent the
loss of biodiversity as well as avoid depletion of resources and focus more on conservation of
water and energy. From the responses of the authors, the green construction procurement
strategies must be implemented properly for setting own standards as part of the value
proposition (Sanchez et al. 2014). The green construction procurement management strategies
have also helped in developing good relationships with the suppliers and promote sustainability
for delivering sustainable solutions during the construction management project.
The research was conducted by collecting relevant data and information from various
individuals for understanding the sustainability approaches that had been undertaken for ensuring
environmental sustainability. Surveys were developed to gain the responses of the individuals
and businesses within the construction industry and find out the most suitable eco-friendly
procedures of the construction project procurement. The respondents provided their opinions
regarding how to reduce the carbon footprints and emission of harmful gases in the environment
(Akintoye, Goulding and Zawdie 2012). It not only helped in maintaining an ecological balance

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in nature but also favoured the successful accomplishment of construction projects on time. An
essential part of the economic strategy of the Government is the Low Carbon economic strategy
that has managed to respond to changes and reduced the emissions of harmful gases to the
environment during construction.
The researchers stated that the implementation of site waste management plans could
manage the design and construction of buildings by following sustainable policies and focus
more on the recovery of wastes, reuse and recycle. Therefore, it could be understood that the
contract management and sustainable construction procedures could ensure continual
improvements, manage good relationships between the stakeholders and engage them to make
effective decisions and prioritize on the innovation processes too (Zhang et al. 2014).
Critical review Part 3 Design for Sustainability and management of green construction
procurement
Modern selection criteria for procurement methods in construction A state-of-the-art literature
review and a survey
Naoum, Egbu
As the green construction is considered as a revolutionary innovation procedure within
the construction industry, it involves the lean construction activities that identifies the needs and
preferences of the clients at first and then foster the productivity through integration. According
to Bynum, Issa and Olbina (2012), this would also create positive effects on the supply chain
activities by reducing the amounts of wastes, develop planning and control, create scopes for
continuous improvements and enhance the value provided to customers sustainably (Bynum, Issa
and Olbina 2012).

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During the construction procurement activities, sustainability techniques include
development of an energy model and comply with the “Target carbon emissions rate”. This
could handle iterations at various stages and create close collaboration or coordination between
the construction worker. The contractors have set various sustainability aims and then implement
initiative ways of accomplishing the client objectives with the allocated time and budget. The
resources should be used properly for facilitating the process of building and construction,
maintain a good organizational structure and develop suitable channels of communication. From
the various responses provided by the authors of the research, the traditional ways of designing
and development construction procurement could overcome the barriers and innovate the
sustainable requirements with much ease and efficacy (Naoum and Egbu 2016). The
Governmental bodies have made the construction companies embrace the sustainable
construction principles and influence the change in culture within the construction industry too.
Conclusion
The report was developed for the management of strategic construction procurement with
the consideration of various strategies such as strategic project alliance, public private
partnerships, value for money and green construction project procurement. The various
principles and theories composed of the proper organizational structure including the projectised
and non-projectised structures to manage proper functionality at the micro and macro levels
during the construction project. The green construction procurement strategies were focused to
manage sustainable construction methods and conserve energy, water, heat. This had created
good relationships with the stakeholders, furthermore facilitated the effectiveness of sustainable
construction management solutions.

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References
Akintoye, A., Goulding, J. and Zawdie, G. eds., 2012. Construction innovation and process
improvement. John Wiley & Sons.
Bynum, P., Issa, R.R. and Olbina, S., 2012. Building information modeling in support of
sustainable design and construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and
Management, 139(1), pp.24-34.
Naoum, S.G. and Egbu, C., 2016. Modern selection criteria for procurement methods in
construction: A state-of-the-art literature review and a survey. International Journal of
Managing Projects in Business, 9(2), pp.309-336.
Pietrosemoli, L. and Monroy, C.R., 2013. The impact of sustainable construction and knowledge
management on sustainability goals. A review of the Venezuelan renewable energy
sector. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 27, pp.683-691.
Robichaud, L.B. and Anantatmula, V.S., 2010. Greening project management practices for
sustainable construction. Journal of Management in Engineering, 27(1), pp.48-57.
Staples, W. and Dalrymple, J., 2016. Construction Procurement and State Government Strategy:
Aligned or Disconnected?. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 75(2), pp.222-235.
X. Sanchez, A., Lehtiranta, L., D. Hampson, K. and Kenley, R., 2014. Evaluation framework for
green procurement in road construction. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 3(2), pp.153-
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Zhang, X., Wu, Y., Shen, L. and Skitmore, M., 2014. A prototype system dynamic model for
assessing the sustainability of construction projects. International Journal of Project
Management, 32(1), pp.66-76.