One of the agendas for addressing environmental protection in construction is to reduce impacts and make the construction activities more sustainable. This important consideration has generated several research interests within the construction industry, especially considering the construction damaging effects on the ecosystem, such as various forms of environmental pollution, resource depletion and biodiversity loss on a global scale. Using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling technique, this study validates environmental sustainability (ES) construct in the context of large construction firms in Malaysia. A cross-sectional survey was carried out where data was collected from Malaysian large construction firms using a structured questionnaire. Results of this study revealed that business innovativeness and new technology are important in determining environmental sustainability (ES) of the Malaysian construction firms. It also established an adequate level of internal consistency reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity for each of this study’s constructs. And based on this result, it could be suggested that the indicators for organisational innovativeness dimensions (business innovativeness and new technology) are useful to measure these constructs in order to study construction firms’ tendency to adopt environmental sustainability (ES) in their project execution.
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12 August 2016
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2016 (ICAST’16)
11–13 April 2016
Kedah, Malaysia
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August 12 2016
Developing a validation for environmental sustainability
Bamgbade Jibril Adewale;
Bamgbade Jibril Adewale
a)
1School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business,
Universiti Utara Malaysia
, Malaysia
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Kamaruddeen Ahmed Mohammed;
Kamaruddeen Ahmed Mohammed
2Quantity Surveying Program, School of Built Environment,
University College of Technology Sarawak
, Malaysia
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Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi;
Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi
b)
1School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business,
Universiti Utara Malaysia
, Malaysia
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Zulkifli Aziz
Zulkifli Aziz
1School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business,
Universiti Utara Malaysia
, Malaysia
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Corresponding authors: [email protected]
AIP Conf. Proc. 1761, 020026 (2016)
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Bamgbade Jibril Adewale, Kamaruddeen Ahmed Mohammed, Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi, Zulkifli Aziz; Developing a validation for environmental sustainability. AIP Conf. Proc. 12 August 2016; 1761 (1): 020026. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960866
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