Abstract
Purpose The engineering construction standards in China play an important role in protecting the safety of the construction projects. They are the basic principles that standardize the construction activities and guarantee the quality of projects. However, there are many barriers that affect the adoption of the engineering construction standards. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the barriers that challenge the adoption of the engineering construction standards in China. Design/methodology/approach The research reveals the barriers that affect the implementation of the engineering construction standards in China through a literature review. Then this study uses factor analysis to analyze 12 indices which we get from a questionnaire to build explanations from the results. Findings According to this paper, four main brands of uncorrelated variables are derived which are the main challenges in implementing the engineering construction standards in China: management barriers, policy barriers, knowledge barriers and market barriers. This paper gives a clear classification of the barriers that the enterprises face while adopting the engineering construction standards in China. Originality/value This paper makes a contribution to the understanding of the barriers that affect the adoption of the engineering construction standards in China.
Highlights
Standards are key factors for economic and competence development
A research group was formed in order to systematically explore the questions and barriers that the enterprises faced when adopting the engineering construction standards in China, which consisted of China Architecture Design Institute (CAG), China Institute of Building Standard Design and Research (CIBSDR), China Engineering Construction Supervision Association (CECSA), Study on comprehensive survey and Construction Design Institute Co
Their success is severely limited owing to a lack of adoption, meaning work carried out often contravenes the myriad of different standards, leading to the Chinese government paying more attention to their adoption
Summary
Standards are key factors for economic and competence development. There are well over half a million published standards (Bredillet, 2003). It has been widely recognized that standards are consistently important to technological innovations, industrial productivity, and so on (Zhu et al, 2006). If the standards adoption cannot widely work out well, their benefits will be curtailed (Fichman and Kemerer, 1997). In order to realize the benefits of the standards, it is important to fulfill and heighten the standards adoption (Rogers, 1995).
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