Environmental Performance Evaluation and Analysis Using ISO 14031 Guidelines in Construction Sector Industries

Ibrahim Falqi, Saleh Alsulamy and Mohamed Mansour
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Ibrahim Falqi: Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha 394, Saudi Arabia
Saleh Alsulamy: Architecture and Planning Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha 394, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Mansour: Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: The construction sector is garnering increasing concern as an industry that generates significant pollution while suffering from a lack of adequate environmental performance evaluations. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the environmental performance of construction sector industries using the ISO 14031 standard in three dimensions: planning, using data and information, and reviewing and improving environmental performance evaluations. Using a descriptive and correlational approach, this study described and analyzed the level of implementation using a 7-point Likert scale questionnaire distributed to 1000 organizations in Saudi Arabia. The questionnaires were completed between May and December of 2018 and the results were measured against similar studies. The mean positive percentage responses were 31.36 and expressed the implementation levels of the three dimensions of environmental performance. The corresponding values for the three dimensions’ items were 33.36, 29.83, and 30.95 respectively. The minimum Kendall correlation coefficients for each item in a dimension were 0.79, 0.79, and 0.83, respectively. The maximum correlation values between an item and a dimension to which the item did not belong were 0.25. This study answers a fundamental question regarding the implementation level values of environmental performance in construction organizations based on the ISO 14031 standard model and analyzes the pairwise correlation among the descriptor variables of the model. Further studies are needed to investigate the model structure using the principle component, factor analysis, and cluster analysis.

Keywords: environmental management; construction industry; environmental performance evaluation; ISO 14031; Saudi Arabia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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