Analyzing relationships between project team compositions and green building certification in green building projects
Built Environment Project and Asset Management
ISSN: 2044-124X
Article publication date: 7 November 2016
Abstract
Purpose
Literature on organizational analysis identified that project participants have a certain impact on the project outcome. However, there is no study that identifies the impact of project teams and individual project participants on a green building project. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of green building project teams on green building certification.
Design/methodology/approach
Project information, project team information, and green building certification grade were collected using the Canadian green building database. Project team data were analyzed and organizations were ranked based on their green building project experience and collaborations with experienced green building organizations. The page rank algorithm is used to calculate the rank of organizations in order to identify the impact of organizational rank on the final green building certification grade of a project.
Findings
The results show a positive relationship between the green building certification grade and the number of organizations with more green building experience in a project team. The results also show that not having experienced key organizations such as owners, designers, and contractors will likely lead to a lower green building certification grade.
Originality/value
Impact of project teams on green building projects has not been studied before. This study used an innovative method to analyze green building project teams and to investigate the importance of green building project experience. The findings of this study provided evidence to support the influence of project team compositions in green building projects. The results presented in this paper can help project owners and managers during project team formation for successful execution of green building projects.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the support by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 611513).
Citation
Cheng, J.C.P. and Venkataraman, V. (2016), "Analyzing relationships between project team compositions and green building certification in green building projects", Built Environment Project and Asset Management, Vol. 6 No. 5, pp. 449-461. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-10-2015-0056
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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