Social Sustainability: Satisfying Owners and Communities by Multilevel Strategies of Contractors

Kawesittisankhun, Kittipos; Pongpeng, Jakrapong

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“…However, multiple stakeholders and their complex interrelations and impacts on communities during construction additionally complicate ongoing processes. Therefore, it is essential to expand the sustainability assessment and management framework and develop more complex, interdisciplinary, and integrative multileveled strategies (e.g., with respect to corporate, business, and functional aspects) [48]. The strategies represented in this paper address these complex, diverse, and multileveled relations and interdependences by proposing a theoretical framework encompassing several interdisciplinary categories relevant to sustainable construction.…”

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Strategies for Realization of Socially Sustainable Residential Buildings: Experts’ Perspectives

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Over the recent decades, the concept of social sustainability (SS) has been increasingly recognized as a key component of sustainable development incorporated in sustainable communities’ agendas. However, SS measures and practices have been insufficiently applied and underrepresented with regard to residential buildings. The aim of this paper is to employ experts’ perspectives to identify interdisciplinary, multilevel strategies/drivers for the integration of SS measures and practices into governmental and operational activities in relation to residential buildings. The selected strategies emerged from a detailed literature review and a two-round Delphi survey collecting responses from an expert panel, which were carried out in order to determine the relevancy of the proposed strategies. Of the 38 preselected strategies, 32 were deemed significant. In addition to a number of relevant strategies, the panelists especially recommended disseminating new concepts of growth that would contribute to breaking the link between materialism and social progress and to the adoption of new ways of life characterized by a more harmonious and healthy coexistence of people and the environment. They also suggested a gradual introduction of SS principles into value systems and their implementation in all aspects of personal and social life as an essential precondition for achieving the goals of sustainable development on a large scale. These results lay the groundwork for the incorporation and development of SS strategies by policy makers, developers, and planners and provide a starting point that will allow other researchers to identify the most relevant strategies in different contexts, i.e., countries and regions with their specific characteristics, which will further create the conditions for the more efficient implementation of SS measures and practices and contribute to the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Section: Social Sustainability Barriers and Strategiesmentioning

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Strategies for Realization of Socially Sustainable Residential Buildings: Experts’ Perspectives

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“…According to Kawesittisankhun and Pongpeng (2020), in the last few years a new type of construction managers (CM) provides specialist services from the inception to the conclusion of a construction project. These building and construction managers mostly come from the ranks of A/E firms or basic specialists that may or might not preserve dual functions in the service of the proprietors.…”

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“…These building and construction managers mostly come from the ranks of A/E firms or basic specialists that may or might not preserve dual functions in the service of the proprietors. Regardless, the proprietor can depend on the service of a single prime professional to take care of the entire process of a building and construction job (Kawesittisankhun & Pongpeng, 2020). Nevertheless, like the A/E companies of numerous years earlier, the construction managers are valued by some proprietors yet not by others.…”

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Factors Affecting Construction Sector Safety Performance: Exploratory Factor Analysis Evidence from China

Jia¹,

Wei²,

Yutang³

2022

JOEPM

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Construction industry is a significant contributor to the Chinese economy. The industry has more than 12 million employers with over 250 million employees and creates almost $1.9 trillion worth of structures yearly. Civil construction remains the main driver of growth in China. Basically, a task is developed to meet market demands or demands in a timely fashion. Different possibilities may be thought about in the conceptual drawing board, and also the technical and also financial feasibility of each alternative will be assessed and compared in order to select the very best feasible job. The construction industry in China is forecast to grow by 7.7% in 2021, driven by strong Y-o-Y growth in the first quarter, reflecting the comparison to the previous year's period when construction work was halted across most of the country. Thereafter, the construction industry is expected to record an average annual growth of 4.2% between 2022 and 2025. The industry's growth over the forecast period is expected to be driven by investments on new infrastructure, including investment in the areas of 5G networks, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and data centers. According to the government-backed think tank, the China Electronic Information Industry Development, the country is expected to spend CNY10 trillion (US$1.4 trillion) on new infrastructure projects between 2020 and 2025. This study evaluated factors affecting construction sector performance: explanatory factor analysis evidence from China. From the literature reviewed, it was established that entering the Chinese construction market is still seen as exciting but difficult by many foreign contractors and consultants. The study found out that rising material and labor costs, labor woes, increased competition and shrinking profit margins were some of the challenges construction firms in Chin face. The study concludes that the implementation of construction safety laws and the rate of subcontracting are relevant factors affecting construction sector in China, while neither the extent of using temporary workers, nor the availability of resources, nor the level of per capita GDP has any effects. Keywords. Construction sector, safety performance, construction sector, labor costs, increased competition, shrinking profit margins

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“…Since then, user satisfaction has aroused wide attention in the marketing community and has been developed through the theoretical construction of multiple researchers [11]. The research on owner satisfaction by domestic and foreign scholars has primarily focused on the evaluation of owner satisfaction [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], using owner satisfaction as an important criterion for measuring the success of engineering projects [20][21][22][23][24], and the factors that affect owner satisfaction [25][26][27][28][29]. For example, Li (2018) used a BP neural network to analyze the evaluation indexes of the effect of the entire process of turnkey engineering on customer satisfaction, to guide construction enterprises in improving the satisfaction of owners with turnkey engineering [30].…”

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Research on project cost control of construction engineering contracting enterprises based on owner satisfaction in China

Zhang

2024

Archives of Civil Engineering

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The profit margin of construction enterprises has been continuously declining over the past few years, and the competition for contracts among construction enterprises turns out to be increasingly fierce. Construction contracting enterprises should consider the profitability of the construction contracting enterprise and its ability to continuously obtain orders when setting cost budget targets for project management departments. Thus, a dual objective decision-making model is built in this study, minimizing overall construction costs and maximizing owner satisfaction to clarify the contracting conditions of the project management department and facilitate decision-making optimization of cost and owner satisfaction goals. Moreover, the actual effect of the proposed model method is verified through case calculations. As indicated by the results, under the premise of maximizing owner satisfaction, the model optimization cost is lower than the actual cost that has already occurred. Furthermore, it conforms to the goal of maximizing owner satisfaction while fulfilling the goal of minimizing engineering costs.

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Social Sustainability: Satisfying Owners and Communities by Multilevel Strategies of Contractors

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Strategies for Realization of Socially Sustainable Residential Buildings: Experts’ Perspectives

Strategies for Realization of Socially Sustainable Residential Buildings: Experts’ Perspectives

Factors Affecting Construction Sector Safety Performance: Exploratory Factor Analysis Evidence from China

Research on project cost control of construction engineering contracting enterprises based on owner satisfaction in China

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