STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS OF GREEN BUILDING DESIGN IN INDIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

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1 International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, pp , Article ID: IJCIET_09_03_065 Available online at ISSN Print: and ISSN Online: IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS OF GREEN BUILDING DESIGN IN INDIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY A.Arokiaprakash Department of civil engineering, SRMIST, Potheri, (Tamil Nadu) India Alla Hemanth Kumar Department of civil engineering, SRMIST, Potheri, (Tamil Nadu) India ABSTTRACT This paper explains how green building is slowly becoming more accepted but it is not occurring fast enough and it needed to be finding out the barriers that slowing down the adoption. The various factors, which becoming the barricades to the successful implementation of the green building in Indian construction industry are identified through the comprehensive study of the literatures. The identified problems are framed as a questionnaire and survey conducted over various construction organisations. The collected data were statistically analysed through SPSS software and the results were examined. Keywords: Sustainable Green building design, policies, financial risks, implementation barriers. Cite this Article: A.Arokiaprakash and Alla Hemanth Kumar, Study on the Implementation Barriers of Green Building Design in Indian Construction Industry, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, 9(3), 2018, pp INTRODUCTION The green building is a sustainable system that utilise optimum use of the natural resources throughout its lifecycle. It includes planning, designing, maintaining till demolition and recycle. It can be further best described as the practice of such system sustainably and ecofriendly. The bitter fact is green building only implemented for only 5% in total Indian construction industry. The Dodge Data & Analytics World Green Building Trends Smart Market Report (2016), stating that, by 2018, the green building concepts targeting 20% growth. The growth rate is slow in one dimension on the other hand it is more of the choice for the industry because lack of awareness of the consumers. The construction industry in India emitting 18% of the total carbon dioxide emission and it will be expected to grow double by Considering the aforesaid factors the building industry is the key holder to cut the emissions by adopting green policies, The better India (2017). The need of Green editor@iaeme.com

2 Study on the Implementation Barriers of Green Building Design in Indian Construction Industry building projects and sustainable design are very important for the developing country like India. As a developing country there will be much extend of infrastructure and energy utilization required. The country needs the development economically and sustainably, so the investments and implementations of Green building concepts are inevitable. The concern of environment and sustainable building improvement has been increased recently, but in India implementations of this concept is low. 2. NEED FOR STUDY The rating systems and other ranking systems are established to facilitate the green building implementations but, however the concept of the green building design is not reaching to the industry successfully. The reasons may include reduced availability of information about green construction materials, less availability of information about the energy footprint of various building technologies, technologies to make renewable energy economically viable is not formulated, cost evaluation of green practices, impact of green policies on consumer behaviour and decision to pay for green projects and factors affecting such decision. 3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The literatures of green building progress in India, as well as other countries scenarios were studied to identify the barriers encountered along with the measures taken in green building movement across the countries, which could be implemented in Indian context. Survey questions are prepared after the literature study. The survey was conducted through a questionnaire distributed randomly to the various construction organisations. The questionnaire form was designed into the following sections: 1. Respondents profile, 2. Education, 3. Designation, 4. Work experience, and 5. Factors influencing the implementation. The respondents were asked to rate the problem statements with Likert scales (on 1 to 5 point basis). Furthermore, the data was statistically analyzed using SPSS software tool, and the results were examined and concluded. 4. LITERATURE REVIEW Background: The successful implementation of the sustainable green building design and construction is constrained by time, cost and risks associated, all of which determine the level of adoption. Omair Awadh (2017), discussed that the green building rating system, sustainability assessment system and how these system can be taken to designers and construction stake holders. Latif and Nese (2017), discussed that how the green building certification system such as LEED influencing the investment in green buildings. The paper concluded that the adopting such systems increases the cost the projects significantly. Tim and Moritz (2016), discussed the energy performance of the green building and they stated that green buildings consumes less energy than the baseline buildings. Mona et. al (2013), discussed in their study that, risks associated in green building investment. They also concluded that the green buildings offer better return of investment and cost saving. Dong et. al (2015), discussed about the social, economic and environmental problems of implementing green buildings. He concluded that the adopting such green practice in the hands of end users. The questionnaire for the survey has prepared and tabulated in table 1 based on the literatures studied editor@iaeme.com

3 A.Arokiaprakash and Alla Hemanth Kumar Table 1 Factors influencing the implementation Sl. No Factors ID 1 Land rates increases every year F1 2 Equipment costs are high F2 3 Green projects materials costs are high F3 4 Permits and legal costs are high F4 5 Finishing works takes more time F5 6 Green building policies established by companies F6 7 Are planning designing involved low carbon technologies F7 8 Are construction lifecycle concerned with green policies F8 9 Designing involving utilisation of recycled materials F9 10 Designing includes any energy conservation techniques F10 11 Are company having procedures for measuring for carbon emissions F11 12 Are company having durability of building materials in logistics energy F12 13 Are company having integrated carbon emissions calculations F13 14 Durability of green building materials are low F14 15 Strength properties of green building materials are low F15 16 Financial risks due to green building investment F16 17 Economic risks due to instrument cost for green building projects F17 18 Are the energy star rating system are using in your green projects F18 19 Are the national association of home builders (NAHB) models are using in your company? F19 20 Are the national green building standard are using in your green constructions? F20 21 Are the National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) is using in your green constructions? F21 22 Any approaches established to support stakeholders decision making in building design process? F22 23 The usage of tools and techniques to measure the value of active renewable energy limiting the green design? F23 24 F24 25 Technology of renewable energy Company s (TRECO) tool was used to attain green building status? F25 26 Is Heating ventilation & Air-conditioning (HVAC) design concept activation of building element to extract heat from building in construction phase? F26 27 Is Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) reduced the greenhouse effect while developing green sustainable build environments? F27 28 Is sustainable energy performance of green buildings are transferred to carbon dioxide emission? F28 29 Is Roof s in the green buildings are preventing the extra energy consumption? F29 30 Is Green buildings are reduces the electricity and gas prices through expanded green construction? F30 31 Is Green building improving the quality of educational environment? F31 32 Is Lifecycle Costing (LCC) is quantifies the total cost? F32 33 Is recycled materials gives a better value of money compare to fresh materials? F editor@iaeme.com

4 Study on the Implementation Barriers of Green Building Design in Indian Construction Industry 5. RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION: 5.1. Sample characteristics: The table 2 shows that the complete demographic profile details from the respondents. It is indicating represent frequency, percent, valid percent and cumulative percent. The response rates from male is maximum compare to female candidates, as like Engineers(28.6%) were shown maximum interest to give responses followed by Designers(25%), Contractors(23.2%) and architectures(23.2%). The candidates are those who having 2-5 years experience (45.0%) given more responses than others. Table 2 Indicating demographic profile details from the respondents Profile Frequency Percent Valid percent Cumulative percent Gender Male Female Education Diploma Bachelor's degree Master's degree Ph.D Designation Architecture Engineer Contractor Designers Work Experience 2-5 years years years years The Fig. 1 shows that, the factor s mean, standard deviation and variance. The financial risks in green building investment factor were found to be the highest mean ratings (above 3.45), design includes conserve energy techniques represented low mean rating (below 2.54). Descriptive statistics are used for summarizing frequency or measures of central tendency. In standard deviation values, economical risks factor indicated more deviation (1.420) compare to other factors it depicts economical risk factor is the major problem facing in construction of sustainable buildings editor@iaeme.com

5 A.Arokiaprakash and Alla Hemanth Kumar Figure 1 Indicating mean, standard deviation and variance of factors Responses from the industry front line personnel: The Fig. 2 shows the responses for each factor F29 has a high marginal percentage (36.5%) then followed by F11 (36.4%). Figure 2 Graph Indicating the rating, response and % of responses of factors editor@iaeme.com

6 Study on the Implementation Barriers of Green Building Design in Indian Construction Industry 5.3. Ranking: The graph in Fig.3 shows the rankings by RII of various factors and amongst the 33 factors the rank one is the F8. (Are construction lifecycle concerned with green policies?) Most of the respondents strongly agreed that the construction organizations are not adopting such policies and that becoming the implementation barrier of green building and sustainable design followed by rank two F10. (Design includes any energy conservation techniques?), rank three F9. (Designing involving utilization of recycled materials) and so on. Figure 3 Graph indicating Relative importance index (RII) for Factors editor@iaeme.com

7 A.Arokiaprakash and Alla Hemanth Kumar 5.4. Annova The graph in Fig 4 shows the ANNOVA s significance value for the respondent s designation to the factors and found that there is no value is lesser than 0.05 that means there is no significance. Figure 4 Graph indicating Annova test For Factors in designation The graph in Fig 5 shows the ANNOVA s significance value for the respondent s work experience to the factors and found that there is F28 value is lesser than 0.05 that means there is significance difference about 5%. Figure 5 Graph indicating Annova Test for factors in Work experience 6. CONCLUSIONS The survey results shows that the latest view of the sustainable green building design in southern part of India. The front line construction personnel having 2-5 years experience have participated actively in the survey. The major difference in mean value and standard deviation from the collected data reveals that, the ID-F16. (Financial risks due to green building investment) and ID-F17. (Economical risks due to instrument costs for green buildings) highly influencing the green building implementation. However, the highest ranked factor F8. (Are construction lifecycle concerned with green policies?), can be concluded as the number editor@iaeme.com

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