Green construction capability for environmental sustainability performance: an empirical study on construction sector in Indonesia

Abstract

This paper reports on the findings on the relationship between green construction capability (GCC) and environmental sustainability performance (ESP). Accordingly, many ESP issues have several impacts on green construction, these include waste reduction and ecology. In a business world, there is a positive trend among construction sector to start reporting over GCC keeping their role as ESP alive. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed respective stakeholders to gather data from employees of construction industry. In order to analyse the collected data, regression analysis and correlation coefficient were employed to check the hypotheses. Statistical package mainly used for social science studies has been used for the data analysis. Results revealed that there is a direct positive relationship between GCC and ESP. The three aspects of GCC, i.e., material, machine and labour also have significant association with ESP. ESP carries with itself sensational openings for the construction management role and with the opportunity that originates responsibility. This study emphasizes the revised planning of risk and causes root to create awareness among employees and strategies to improve ESP and environmental performance level of companies in the competitive world. This research carries a new horizon to explore the association of GCC with ESP in construction sector. The study presents first-ever empirical evidence about the relationship between ESP and GCC from developing countries.