A Critical Review on the Development of a Theoretical Framework for Managing Environmental Impacts of Construction Project
Construction industry is considered as one of the main contributor of natural resources depletion, responsible for high level pollution and it is one of the attributes that pose climate changes and other environmental threats. A lot of efforts had and have been done to reduce and control these impacts. Project Environmental Management (PEM) includes the processes required to ensure that the impacts of the project execution to the surrounding environment will remain within the limits stated in legal permits. The main aim of most of researches conducted managing Environmental Impacts (EI) is to protect earth planet from pollution. Those researches are presenting four major environmental elements; Environmental Management Systems (EMS), Environmental Design (ED), Environmental Planning (EP) and Environmental Impacts Assessments (EIA). Although everything has been said about environmental management for construction projects, but almost everything remains to be said and therefore to be explored or rediscovered because incontestably, almost everything remains to be done. This paper aimed at reviewing some of what has been said about PEM. Also one of its objectives is to explore and rediscover the whole view of managing the EI problems by proposing a framework that based on the relation between these environmental researches.
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[2] Wang, W. (2005). "A simulation-based system for green building
design". PhD thesis, Concordia University, Canada.
[3] Deniz, G.O., Zhu, Y. and Ceron,V. (2011) "Time, cost, and
environmental impact analysis on construction operation optimization
using genetic algorithms". J. Mgt in Eng.
[4] Rahardjati, R. (2011). "Criteria weighting of green building index
Malaysia". M.Sc. thesis, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.
[5] Asyirah A.R. (2007). "A study on the potential inclusion of
environmental elements in contract documents of construction projects
in Malaysia." PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
[6] Said, I., Rashideh, W. M., Osman, O. and Abd. Razak, A. (2009).
"Modeling of construction firms sustainability" , 3rd International
Conference on Construction Industry, Indonesia.
[7] Alyami, A.M. and A.D.F. price. (2006). "A framework for implementing
sustainable construction in building briefing project." 22nd Annual
ARCOM conference, UK, 327-337.
[8] Zainul Abidin, N. (2009). "Sustainable construction in Malaysia
developers' awareness." J. World Academy of Science, Engineering and
Technology, 41, pp.807-814.
[9] Abdul Rashid, F., Ismail, M.A. and Prasad, D. (2011). "Quantifying the
sustainable building criteria based on case studies from Malaysia". J.
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 78, pp. 267-
271.
[10] Manoliadis, O.; Tsolas, I.; Nakou, A. (2006) "Sustainable construction
and drivers of change in Greece: a Delphi study". J. Constr. Mgt &
Econo., 24(2),, pp. 113-120.
[11] Rwelamila, P.D. (2000). "Attainment of a sustainable built environmentis
it possible under 'Barefoot Empiricism' in project procurement?".
Conference of Strategies for a sustainable built environment, South
Africa.
[12] Sebake, TN. (2008). "Limitation of implementing sustainable
construction principles in the conventional South Africa design
approach" The third Built Environment conference, South Africa.
[13] Manoliadis, O. (2008). "The Role of Adaptive Environmental
Management in Sustainable Development Case Study Assessing the
Economical Benefits of Sustainable Construction in Greece"
Environmental technologies: new developments, chapter 6 pp. 85-96.
[14] Zainul Abidin, N. and Said, A. (2006). "Involvement of sustainability
issues in value management: request factors". 2nd International
Conference on Construction Industry. Pakistan.
[15] Christini, G., Fetsko, M. and Hendrickson, C. (2004). "Environmental
Management Systems and ISO 14001 certification for construction
firms, ” J. constr. eng. and mgt. 130,3, pp.330-336.
[16] Ofori, G., Gang, G., Briffet, C. (2002). "Implementing environmental
management systems in construction: lessons from quality systems". J.
Build and environment, 37, pp. 1397-1407.
[17] Chen, Z., Li, H. and Wong, C.T.C. (2000). "Environmental management
of urban construction projects in China". J. Constr. Eng. And Mgt,
126(4), pp. 320-324.
[18] Tan, P.L. (2005). "Implementing ISO14001: is it beneficial for firms in
new industrialized Malaysia?". J. Cleaner Production, 13 pp.397-404.
[19] Raymond, Y.C., (2001). "The implementation of EMS in construction
firms: case study in Hong Kong". J. Environmental assessment policy
and management, 3(2), pp.177-194.
[20] Shen, L.Y. and Tam, V.W.Y. (2002). "Implementation of environmental
management in the Hong Kong construction industry" Inter. J. Projt.
Mgt., 20 pp. 535-543.
[21] CIDB (2007). "Strategic Recommendations for improving environmental
practices in construction industry."
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