The Adoption and Adaption of CEEQUAL’s Sustainability Attributes in Assessing the Malaysian Infrastructure Projects: A Review

Abstract

The rapid growing of urban populations has triggered the deterioration of natural resources and acceleration of climate change. Therefore, the development of sustainable infrastructure is playing an important role in order to minimize these issues. Generally, most of the sustainable rating tools are designed to focus on building projects only but not applicable to infrastructure projects. Specifically in Malaysia, there is limited studies have been done on the application of sustainable rating system to the infrastructure projects and literature also reveals that the Malaysian construction industry players still have little understanding on the sustainable infrastructure assessment. With these limitations, hence, this paper corresponds to fill the gap by exploring the sustainability attributes in assessing the infrastructure projects. In this paper, an extensive literature review was conducted to give an overview of several worldwide practical sustainable infrastructure rating tools and identifies the most important attributes for assessing the infrastructure projects, which is based on comprehensive and conventional reviews of considerable volume of published journals from 1993 until 2023 in the area of sustainable infrastructure rating system. Based on the best reference of CEEQUAL sustainability topic areas, the results of the review clarified that a total of 14 attributes like effects on neighbours, users, and the workforce; relation with the local community and other stakeholders; transport; material use; waste management; use of land; restoration of contaminated land; landscape issue; water environment; water resources; flood risk; historic environment; ecology and biodiversity; besides energy consumption and carbon emissions are identified as the relevant sustainability attributes for assessing the development of infrastructure projects in Malaysia.