Stakeholder involvement in implementation of public sector green building projects

Abstract

Green buildings are gaining widespread acceptance in response to increasing environmental issues and global energy demands. Therefore governments across the world are taking key initiatives in implementing green buildings, which is also been adopted in Sri Lanka. However, it is observed that implementation of green building projects within public sector have many drawbacks with regard to building industry stakeholders. Therefore, intention of this study is to investigate stakeholder involvement in implementation of public sector green buildings projects in Sri Lanka. This research aims to develop a framework that effectively overcome barriers in stakeholder involvement in the life cycle of implementing green buildings in public sector green building projects. Findings from literature survey supported by three case studies on an actual public sector building projects addressing green building life cycle were analysed to ascertain the barriers, causes involved in stakeholder involvement in implementation of green building projects in public sector. Barriers including key aspects barriers and stakeholder involvement were then verified through a questionnaire survey. The results were analysed using Relative Important Index and incorporated into a framework. The proposed framework is expected to direct effective implementation of public sector green building projects.