Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experience
Sustainability ill-practices in the construction industry can have major drawbacks on meeting governmental targets on carbon and energy reduction. Using a mixed-method approach drawn from three studies to explore the level of engagement of construction stakeholders in adopting government sustainabil...
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2013-06-01
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| description | Sustainability ill-practices in the construction industry can have major drawbacks on meeting governmental targets on carbon and energy reduction. Using a mixed-method approach drawn from three studies to explore the level of engagement of construction stakeholders in adopting government sustainability agendas, the research identifies a wide range of perceived barriers, which operate broadly at ‘individual’ and ‘organisational’ levels. Sustainability knowledge in construction is fragmented, diverse, embedded in various documents, and developed in a non-concerted and integrated way across stakeholders, localities, regions, and countries. There is an emergent need for a socio-technical ‘knowledge solution’ to create circles of impacts that bind building professionals, energy administrations, and citizens in a shared sustainability experience to address a number of issues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0c8b6b047e83492b9dcbde70e26f008f2022-12-21T20:24:58ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityTechnological and Economic Development of Economy2029-49132029-49212013-06-0119210.3846/20294913.2013.799105Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experienceIan E. Wilson0Yacine Rezgui1School of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA Cardiff, WalesSchool of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA Cardiff, WalesSustainability ill-practices in the construction industry can have major drawbacks on meeting governmental targets on carbon and energy reduction. Using a mixed-method approach drawn from three studies to explore the level of engagement of construction stakeholders in adopting government sustainability agendas, the research identifies a wide range of perceived barriers, which operate broadly at ‘individual’ and ‘organisational’ levels. Sustainability knowledge in construction is fragmented, diverse, embedded in various documents, and developed in a non-concerted and integrated way across stakeholders, localities, regions, and countries. There is an emergent need for a socio-technical ‘knowledge solution’ to create circles of impacts that bind building professionals, energy administrations, and citizens in a shared sustainability experience to address a number of issues.https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/TEDE/article/view/4249sustainable constructionawarenessengagementknowledge managementstakeholder perceptionsbehaviour |
| spellingShingle | Ian E. Wilson Yacine Rezgui Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experience Technological and Economic Development of Economy sustainable construction awareness engagement knowledge management stakeholder perceptions behaviour |
| title | Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experience |
| title_full | Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experience |
| title_fullStr | Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experience |
| title_short | Barriers to construction industry stakeholders’ engagement with sustainability: toward a shared knowledge experience |
| title_sort | barriers to construction industry stakeholders engagement with sustainability toward a shared knowledge experience |
| topic | sustainable construction awareness engagement knowledge management stakeholder perceptions behaviour |
| url | https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/TEDE/article/view/4249 |
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