The Influence of Design Team Attributes on Green Design Performance of Building Projects

Abstract

The design phase is the most important phase in determining the green performance of building projects. The performance of the design team is crucial. The growing importance of sustainability globally necessitates the inclusion of green criteria in the design team selection process. Therefore, a competent design teams is required to have a range of attributes as the basis for design decisions. The propose of this study to identify current green design performance level of design teams of building projects and establish key design attributes influencing green design performance. To achieve mentioned aim a questionnaire survey was conducted to collect dada required. A sample of 274 respondents has been covered under the study, including architects and engineers practicing design and consultancy building sectors. Prior to analysis of data WINSTEPS software were used to determine validity and reliability of date. Descriptive analysis data includes quantitative and qualitative. In general, design team attributes were moderate (3.32). The general design team attributes were high such experience (3.81), communication (3.43) and leadership effectiveness (3.48). However, green attributes of design team were moderate such as green knowledge (2.98), green skills (3.13) and green initiatives (2.84).The result indicates that most design teams have inadequate knowledge and skills to produce high green design performance of building projects. Therefore, to overcome green design complexity, careful selecting design team members and more education and training courses on green building are required to deal with green design requirements.

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“…This is due to more than half of construction mistakes were caused by design insufficiency. Elforgani & Rahmat (2012) in their study stated that the roles and responsibilities of design professionals must be clearly stated, described and classified to ensure that the green practices that they are responsible for are developed, refined and applied from the beginning of the project. Danielle study's (as cited in Elforgani & Rahmat, 2012) indicates that if roles and responsibilities are not assigned, green initiatives might potentially be mistaken or cut out.…”

“…The main issue to slow progress and reluctance in getting involved in green buildings is due to lack of awareness from construction practitioners such as consultants, contractors and clients (Abidin, 2009). Elforgani & Rahmat (2012) agree that lack of previous knowledge of a design team may contribute to a significant risk and affect to the overall project performance. Stewart et al as cited in Elforgani & Rahmat (2012) found that the key barriers of applying green building features are team knowledge and understanding of green rating systems.…”

“…Elforgani & Rahmat (2012) agree that lack of previous knowledge of a design team may contribute to a significant risk and affect to the overall project performance. Stewart et al as cited in Elforgani & Rahmat (2012) found that the key barriers of applying green building features are team knowledge and understanding of green rating systems. Shari et al(2008) argued that the Malaysian building industry players have "insignificant" knowledge on sustainability in general as well as on Green Building Rating Systems (GBRS).…”

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“…However, amongst all parties involved with the delivery of construction project, the client organization remains the only constant actor throughout the whole project lifecycle [20]. Therefore, the decision made by the clients influences the overall project performance [21]. These decisions influence the attitudes, behaviors and procedures of other parties that must be addressed, so as to achieve sustainability of the built environment [22].…”

“…However, different factors are militating against the construction industry's sustainability initiatives [30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. The extant literature shows that most of these factors are client-related [21,[37][38][39]. Although these facts subsist, studies have not provided a practical means of dealing with the factors that affect the implementation of sustainable construction with respect to clients [40].…”