An Environmental Management Maturity Model of Construction Programs Using the AHP-Entropy Approach

Libiao Bai, Hailing Wang, Ning Huang, Qiang Du and Youdan Huang
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Libiao Bai: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China
Hailing Wang: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China
Ning Huang: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China
Qiang Du: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China
Youdan Huang: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Middle Section of South Second Ring Road, Xi’an 710064, China

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-24

Abstract: The accelerating process of urbanization in China has led to considerable opportunities for the development of construction projects, however, environmental issues have become an important constraint on the implementation of these projects. To quantitatively describe the environmental management capabilities of such projects, this paper proposes a 2-dimensional Environmental Management Maturity Model of Construction Program (EMMMCP) based on an analysis of existing projects, group management theory and a management maturity model. In this model, a synergetic process was included to compensate for the lack of consideration of synergies in previous studies, and it was involved in the construction of the first dimension, i.e., the environmental management index system. The second dimension, i.e., the maturity level of environment management, was then constructed by redefining the hierarchical characteristics of construction program (CP) environmental management maturity. Additionally, a mathematical solution to this proposed model was derived via the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)-entropy approach. To verify the effectiveness and feasibility of this proposed model, a computational experiment was conducted, and the results show that this approach could not only measure the individual levels of different processes, but also achieve the most important objective of providing a reference for stakeholders when making decisions on the environmental management of construction program, which reflects this model is reasonable for evaluating the level of environmental management maturity in CP. To our knowledge, this paper is the first study to evaluate the environmental management maturity levels of CP, which would fill the gap between project program management and environmental management and provide a reference for relevant management personnel to enhance their environmental management capabilities.

Keywords: environmental management; management maturity model; construction program; AHP-entropy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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