Cover Image

A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris

This research aims to propose a framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia. Extensive literature review on the development of sustainable construction initiatives in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan indicated active utilisation. However,the green movement in Malaysia is in infancy...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Idris, Nur Hidayah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Malaysia
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15164/1/TM_NUR%20HIDAYAH%20IDRIS%20AP%2014_5.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15164/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.uitm.ir.15164
record_format eprints
spelling my.uitm.ir.151642022-03-14T03:19:17Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15164/ A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris Idris, Nur Hidayah Malaysia Malaysia This research aims to propose a framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia. Extensive literature review on the development of sustainable construction initiatives in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan indicated active utilisation. However,the green movement in Malaysia is in infancy where sustainable projects in Malaysia are mostly at the pioneer stage. Mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative research were adopted in this research in order to develop a framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia. Empirical data for quantitative research was collected via questionnaire survey and qualitative data was gathered via semistructured interviews. One hundred and fifty responses were received from developers in Malaysia and analysed by SPSS (Statistical Analysis for the Social Science). Quantitative finding shows that there are eleven impediments exist to implement sustainable construction in Malaysia. Further, the quantitative data was also analyse using relative importance index (RII) method to justify their ranked according to their important. Therefore, qualitative research was conducted in order to identify the most important impediments and the strategies to further implement sustainable construction in Malaysia. The establishment of the framework was drawn from the analyses and results of two stages of data collection, mainly via cross sectional survey and semi-structured interviews. The framework suggests that the government plays an important role to increase demand on sustainable project by giving fully support in cost and green product supplier in order to encourage the construction practitioner to build more sustainable projects in the future. 2014 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15164/1/TM_NUR%20HIDAYAH%20IDRIS%20AP%2014_5.pdf ID15164 Idris, Nur Hidayah (2014) A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris. Masters thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Mara
content_source UiTM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://ir.uitm.edu.my/
language English
topic Malaysia
Malaysia
spellingShingle Malaysia
Malaysia
Idris, Nur Hidayah
A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris
description This research aims to propose a framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia. Extensive literature review on the development of sustainable construction initiatives in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan indicated active utilisation. However,the green movement in Malaysia is in infancy where sustainable projects in Malaysia are mostly at the pioneer stage. Mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative research were adopted in this research in order to develop a framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia. Empirical data for quantitative research was collected via questionnaire survey and qualitative data was gathered via semistructured interviews. One hundred and fifty responses were received from developers in Malaysia and analysed by SPSS (Statistical Analysis for the Social Science). Quantitative finding shows that there are eleven impediments exist to implement sustainable construction in Malaysia. Further, the quantitative data was also analyse using relative importance index (RII) method to justify their ranked according to their important. Therefore, qualitative research was conducted in order to identify the most important impediments and the strategies to further implement sustainable construction in Malaysia. The establishment of the framework was drawn from the analyses and results of two stages of data collection, mainly via cross sectional survey and semi-structured interviews. The framework suggests that the government plays an important role to increase demand on sustainable project by giving fully support in cost and green product supplier in order to encourage the construction practitioner to build more sustainable projects in the future.
format Thesis
author Idris, Nur Hidayah
author_facet Idris, Nur Hidayah
author_sort Idris, Nur Hidayah
title A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris
title_short A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris
title_full A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris
title_fullStr A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris
title_full_unstemmed A framework for sustainable construction initiatives in Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Idris
title_sort framework for sustainable construction initiatives in malaysia / nur hidayah idris
publishDate 2014
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15164/1/TM_NUR%20HIDAYAH%20IDRIS%20AP%2014_5.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15164/
_version_ 1728054700481183744
score 13.211869

Similar Items