Author/Authors :
Golchin Rad، Kiyanoosh نويسنده Post graduate student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia , , Bagheri Fard، Ali نويسنده Post graduate student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia , , Aadal، Hamid نويسنده Post graduate student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia , , Ghasemi Poor Sabet، Pejman نويسنده Post graduate student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia , , Morshedi. E، S.Reza نويسنده Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia ,
Abstract :
Nowadays in many countries all over the world the enhancing amount of carbon footprint in the environment
has been created numerous challenges and problems. In Iran as a developing country in the Middle East
different efforts have been done in order to decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses. One of the most
important areas of research about these issues refers to the construction and construction related sites. Based on
the importance of this issue and due to its great influences on the human body, and also its great negative impact
on the living environment, during the current study researchers attempted to find out affecting factors and
strategies regarding the carbon foot print reductions in the construction sites of Iran. According to the
importance of this issue, researchers of this study have been implemented a literature review to identify most
important factors regarding carbon footprint reduction factors in the construction industry. After identifying the
related questionnaire based on the literature review, reliability and also validity of the questionnaire has been
analyzed by SPSS software after applying the pilot study. 25 people in charge with construction management
issues have been participated in the quantitative survey. After doing the data analysis, five most important
strategies for reducing carbon footprints in the construction sites have been identified namely Change design to
the green & sustainability, Optimization of concrete or steel, efficient use of construction plant, using recyclable
materials, knowledge of structural designers about carbon reduction methods. Hopefully the results of the
current study seems to be useful for a number of people who can benefit from the results namely researchers in
the construction management issues in Iran to use the results of the current study in their future career,
contractors and managers in the construction sites, and finally administrative executive in the ministry of road
and transportation of Iran to use the findings of the study in their future programming.
