A Maturity Model for a Sustainable Construction Industry
Essay by tahadahabra • October 15, 2015 • Dissertation • 22,416 Words (90 Pages) • 1,922 Views
A MATURITY MODEL FOR A SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
by
Taha Mohamad Dahabra
A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the
American University of Sharjah
College of Engineering
in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements
for the Degree of
Master of Science in
Engineering Systems Management
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
May 2013
© 2013. Taha M. Dahabra. All Rights Reserved
Approval Signatures
We, the undersigned, approve the Master’s Thesis of Taha Mohamad Dahabra
Title: A Maturity Model for a Sustainable Construction Industry
Signature Date of Signature
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Dr. Adil Al Tamimi
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Thesis Advisor
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Dr. Salwa El Beheiry
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Graduate Committee
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Dr. Zied Bahroun
Visiting Associate Professor
Engineering Systems Management Graduate Program
Graduate Committee
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Dr. Md. Maruf Mortula
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Graduate Committee
_________________________ _ _______________
Dr. Moncer Hariga
Director |
Engineering Systems Management Graduate Program
__________________________ _______________
Dr. Hany El- Kadi
Associate Dean
College of Engineering
__________________________ _______________
Dr. Leland Black
Interim Dean
College of Engineering
___________________________ _______________
Dr. Khaled Assaleh
Director of Graduate Studies
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to extend my profound thanks and gratitude to Allah for enabling me to achieve this work in spite of the various commitments. I want to extend my special thanks to my advisor Professor Adil Al Tamimi for his guidance since the very outset. I would like also to thank my committee members Dr. Salwa Al Behiery, Dr. Md. Maruf Mortula, and Dr. Zied Bahroun for their valuable comments, reviews and suggestions that greatly helped shape this work. Finally, I wish to express my great love and sincere appreciation to my beloved parents, wife and all my family for their endless support and extraordinary patience and understanding throughout this research.
DEDICATION
This thesis is dedicated to my father, role model, and best friend Mohamad Taha Dahabra, to my mother Fawzie Dahabra, and my wife Nadia Azzam. This work wouldn’t have been completed without their sacrifice, encouragement, and limitless belief in me. Dad, Mom, and my beloved wife, I will be in your debt forever. May Allah bless you All.
Abstract
Although the construction industry has provided societies with facilities and infrastructure projects that meet their needs and fulfill their requirements, created up to 7 % of the world's job opportunities, made around one-tenth of the world's Gross Domestic Product and stimulated growth of other industries, it also, in the other hand, has been proven to have a negative impact on the environment (Mthalane, 2009). The construction industry accounts for 40% of the CO2 emission worldwide, 30% of Raw material usage, 40% of energy consumption and 20% of fresh water consumption (Wilkinson and Reed, 2006).The world's countries have achieved varying levels of success in implementing sustainability in their local construction industries. However, it is still difficult to rank them based on their achievements due to the absence of a clear defined scale that all the countries can be compared to. This thesis develops a new concept called a Mature Sustainability in Construction Industry. It also proposes a Maturity Model that can be used as a scale to evaluate how mature a country is in regard to its sustainability adaption in the local construction industry. The Model is created by studying different maturity models from other industries, and understanding how they define maturity. Furthermore, the thesis proposes a rating system that can determine a country's sustainability level using mathematical equations, and it includes a case study in which the United Arab Emirates is rated in order to show how the rating system works. The input data of the rating system was obtained by conducting a survey on different construction companies and the local public of UAE. The rating example found out that the UAE belongs to level 2, which is the "Satisfactory Level, and a Deviation from the Ideal Mature Level of 2.427.
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