Performance indicators for public evaluation of environmental management plan implementation in highway construction projects
International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
ISSN: 1759-5908
Article publication date: 24 November 2023
Issue publication date: 29 April 2024
Abstract
Purpose
Evaluating the implementation of environmental management plans (EMPs) in highway construction projects is essential to avoid climate change. Public evaluations can help ensure that the EMP is implemented correctly and efficiently. To allow public evaluation of EMP implementations, this study aims to investigate performance indicators (PIs) for assessing EMP implementation in highway construction projects. To that end, the study objectives are to compare the critical PIs between environment auditors (EAs) and environment officers (EOs) and among the main project stakeholders (i.e. clients, contractors and consultants), create components for the critical PIs and assess the efficiency of the components.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper identified 39 PIs from interviews with environmental professionals and a systematic literature review. Then a questionnaire survey was developed based on the PIs and sent to EAs and EOs. The data were analyzed via mean score ranking, normalization, agreement analysis, factor analysis and fuzzy synthetic evaluation (FSE).
Findings
The analyses revealed 21 critical PIs for assessing EMP implementation in highway construction projects. Also, the critical PIs can be grouped into four components: ecological, pollution, public safety and ecological. Finally, the overall importance of the critical PIs from the FSE is between important and very important.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first-of-its-kind study on the critical PIs for assessing EMP implementation in highway construction projects.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by Universiti Malaysia Pahang (PGRS210303). The authors thank the participants for their time and participation in the survey to make this study possible. The authors are also grateful to the editors and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, which improved this paper’s quality.
Citation
Dahalan, N.H., Rahman, R.A., Hassan, S.H. and Ahmad, S.W. (2024), "Performance indicators for public evaluation of environmental management plan implementation in highway construction projects", International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 425-449. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-02-2023-0025
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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