In this study, it is aimed to identify potential barriers to sustainable construction in the Turkish Construction Industry. To this
end, a survey was conducted covering architects, civil engineers and other (project manager, mechanical engineers, ets.)
professionals working in the Turkish Construction Industry. Based on the data obtained from the survey, the scale of
“Potential Barriers to Sustainable Construction” has been developed. Explanatory factor analysis was performed first to
determine the factor structure of the research scale. As a result of the explanatory factor analysis, information deficiency
barrier, education disability barrier, high investment cost barrier, awareness barrier, academic inadequacy barrier, insufficient
legal framework barrier, inadequate incentive barrier was identified as potential barriers to sustainable construction. The
findings show that participants see the education and awareness barrier on sustainability as a higher level than investment
costs compared to other factors. The results of this study; it is thought that it will make important contributions to the
literature by revealing the factors that prevent sustainable practices in the Turkish Construction Industry and by enriching the
developed scale with different and various factors in future studies.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Civil Engineering |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | October 13, 2020 |
Submission Date | August 9, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | September 18, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 |
Journal of Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies is open access journal under the CC BY-NC license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)
Based on a work at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jscmt
E-mail: jscmt@yildiz.edu.tr