| Summary: | Resource depletion has become the main issues in the last decades. The fact that world population increased into 7
billion in the year 2013, natural resources has become a crucial element in creating better quality of life through
physical infrastructure development. In order to decrease the emission of carbon up to 20 percent in the year 2020,
green procurement is believed to be one of the solution minimize the environmental impact through its nature of
procuring service or product which can be controlled from the initiation steps until its demolition. The current
problem in Malaysian construction industry is that it is at the junction in determining the growth of this sector.
Megatrend in the global scale had influenced it through risk management, sustaining profitability, sustaining
corporate social responsibility and growing bureaucracy, green procurement is believed to be the solution to the
construction industry to grow steadily thus contributes to the nation’s economic and social growth. Most of the
data that will be obtained are primary data, using document analysis, questionnaire and focus group that will be conducted to the respective bodies in construction industries. This research will be detailed up on its elements and the sub elements of the strategic framework within each element. It also will be tested in the real construction
industry. Finally, this strategic framework will be validated to be used in the current industry. The anticipated
finding is that to fill the knowledge gap by introducing a green procurement strategic framework for the industry
restructuring a new type of procurement method.
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