Green Construction Project: A Critical Review of Retrofitting Awarded Green Buildings in Malaysia

Abstract

Technical-centered issues have gained far more importance in green building construction, however, the role of less technical related issues still have been left untouched or less paid attention. The project management processes and practices can contribute here and this research provides frontiers and boundaries of scope to bridge the technical and engineering areas in green building construction to project management practices and processes. Therefore, the project management researchers will have a broad view of the green building research areas. The study draws attention to investigate a position of project management, which is less associated with engineering and technology in construction, and to represent a framework based upon the case of successfully accomplished buildings. The current contribution and scope of green building, energy and project management are clarified. A semantic clustering analysis of the boundaries is implemented. 51 articles with the high impact factor (above 2.7) are selected and empirically reviewed. A literature synthesis approach is presented. Therefore, the findings are classified, and the assessment of evidence around the topics of energy scenario, green building and retrofitting, and cases of three awarded green buildings in Malaysia are facilitated. Derived from the structuralized empirical review, four core factors of retrofitting are identified: a) Energy efficiency improvement; b) Technological change; c) Organizational/managerial challenges, and d) Behavioural change. The contemplations of findings are suggested to be considered as crucial factors for every retrofitting building can be compared and discussed with respect to each of these categorized factors for enthusiast project management scholars. Green building and retrofitting of the existing green buildings have been a centre of attention for a decade. However, it appears that there is no current study which has been conducted to critically review and empirically study of previous research endeavours in order to define the frontiers and boundaries of the scope of this scientific sphere.