The Perception of Chinese Construction Professionals Towards the Obstacles Implementing Green Construction

Abstract

Green construction plays a key role as building block of sustainable development. The economy is significantly affected by the construction industry of the country. There are certain stakeholders in the green construction industry, however project managers (PMs) play significant role in the process of a construction/ rehabilitation project. Generally, the initiative for change or implementing a new system is very challenging issue to deal with. Project manager has to encounter certain obstacles either at several stages of the green construction projects. The present study deals with the identification of the most critical obstacles that have the greatest influence on a project’s outcome in general and particularly in China. To rank the different obstacles extracted from the literature, we use multi criteria decision making (MCDM) tool i.e. TOPSIS. For obtaining input data a team of six experts (project managers) from top Chinese construction companies with an experience of more than 12 years were selected. The results depicts that the most relevant and important obstacles which are critical for green project management are managerial and psychological obstacles and they need to be addressed to improve the project management performance.

Keywords: green construction, project management, topsis, project managers.