Abstract
PurposeThis study focused on investigation of the critical challenges the general contractors are facing in executing green building (GB) projects in Vietnam.Design/methodology/approachThe study conducted a literature review and three in-depth interviews to define 31 potential challenges hindering success of GB projects. Data was collected from 163 respondents through the questionnaire survey and was analyzed by the mean ranking technique, EFA and PLS-SEM.FindingsThe result found general contractors in Vietnam are facing the four components of challenges, namely “Planning activities-related challenges”, “Organizational activities-related challenges”, “Onsite management and control activities-related challenges” and “Green supply chain-related challenges”; and all of them have statistically significant effects on success of GB projects in Vietnam. Furthermore, the most dominant component was related to the non-readiness of external GB supply chain.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest for practical measures to enhance success of GB projects in Vietnam, including (1) completing the system of legal regulations and technical codes, standards, guidelines on GB, (2) providing incentive policies to promote the R&D activities on GB and (3) providing educational programs to improve the awareness and capacity on GB in domestic construction organizations, especially medium and small subcontractors.Originality/valueThis study seeks to gain a better understanding on critical challenges hindering success of green building projects under the view point of general contractors with reference to the context of Vietnam – a developing economy. This study is the first study to identify potential challenges and evaluate the impact of the key components of challenges on success of GB projects.
Highlights
According to the literature, the construction industry uses more than 40% of the total global energy and accounted for more than 40% of global greenhouse gases resulting in a series of environmental problems for the sustainable economic development
The R2 of GB projects (GBPS) was 0.854 meaning that about 85.3% of the changes to the success of green building projects are due to the four latent variables Planning activities-related challenges (PA), Organization activities-related challenges (OA), Onsite management and control activities-related challenges (OMA) and Green supply chain-related challenges (GSC)
The role of general contractors is considered as being extremely important to the development of GB industry in any economies including Vietnam
Summary
The construction industry uses more than 40% of the total global energy and accounted for more than 40% of global greenhouse gases resulting in a series of environmental problems for the sustainable economic development Published in Journal of Economics and Development. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ legalcode
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