Improving the Impact of Green Construction Management on the Quality of Highway Engineering Projects

Xueying Wu, Wenyi Zhao and Tianshan Ma
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Xueying Wu: School of Economics and Management, Chang’An University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China
Wenyi Zhao: School of Literature, Art and Communication, Chang’An University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China
Tianshan Ma: School of Economics and Management, Chang’An University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-24

Abstract: The implementation of green projects continues to encounter several challenges with regards to the project management techniques applied in different construction projects. This study aims to find out the relationship between green construction management and the quality of highway engineering projects, and to try to help innovators identify the best place to focus. This study adopted mixed research method where both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used. The analysis techniques adopted included Pearson’s correlation, regression analysis, and Student’s t-test. The study found that the effect of financial issues, design codes and standards, and various risks will be the most effective green performance constructing strategies. It is revealed that there are eight determinants explained 77.5% of the variations in the quality of the highway engineering projects. The quality of highway engineering projects was expected to improve by 0.246 units for a unit change in the adoption of the green construction management. The research result will help stakeholders in improving the quality standards for highway engineering projects and help practitioners and experts in the construction project industry to better understand the relationship between green construction management and quality of highway engineering projects, and help them improve green construction management in an effort to promote sustainable development of project management. This research can be further studied in the future to expand the scope of data analysis to explain the differences in the level of social development.

Keywords: green construction management; highway engineering project; green construction project; green performance contracting strategies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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