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CURRENT RESEARCH TRENDS ON
SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
DELIVERY
Emokpae Erebor
Department of Architecture,Covenant University. Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria
Eziyi O.Ibem
Bukola A. Adewale
ABSTRACT
Research trends are tending towards sustainability in construction and project
delivery is drawing the interest and attention of great researchers. This review work in
trying to get better understanding of the research area and presents current research
trends in the area of research in sustainability and construction and project delivery from
2003-2017. This review is done through thorough analysis of 50 published research
papers by different authors retrieved from Google Scholar, and Science Direct online
databases in the field of sustainable construction project delivery. All the analysis
conducted covers the researchable areas, the countries that have been frontiers to the
research, the research approaches, the tools for data collection and analysis and the
contributions of authors relating to identified areas and identification of main authors
contribution and lastly the prediction of possible future researchable areas relating to the
field of sustainability and construction in delivery of projects. The results of this review
identified seven researchable areas relating to sustainability and construction in project
delivery. Further results revealed that literature review, interviews, semi structured
interviews, industry surveys and content analysis were the main approaches adopted for
carrying out research work while research data were collected mainly through
questionnaires, interviews, and site observations. Discourse analysis, factor analysis and
multiple regression analysis were the major methods used in analysing the data collected
although the use of software is also trending during research on sustainable construction
project delivery. Jiang Zuo, Bo Xiang, Cheng Sien Goh and Steve Rowlinson are
researchers who were identified as part of those who have contributed enormously, with
some other following suite and breaking grounds in research work in the field of
sustainable construction project delivery. However there are still areas like the climate
and its effects on sustainable construction, BIM in sustainability and Lean applications

Emokpae Erebor, Eziyi O.Ibem and Bukola A. Adewale
in construction project delivery, management of waste in construction policy development
for sustainable construction project delivery, user awareness and perception of
sustainable construction project delivery and training for construction professionals on
sustainable construction were identified as researchable areas that can draw attention of new
researchers for future research as it relates to sustainability in project delivery.
Keywords: Construction, Perception, Project Delivery, Sustainable
Cite this Article: Emokpae Erebor, Eziyi O.Ibem and Bukola A. Adewale, Current
Research Trends on Sustainable Construction Project Delivery, International Journal of
Mechanical Engineering and Technology, 10(01), 2019, pp.1973–1986
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1. INTRODUCTION
Sustainable construction project delivery is a very green research field that attracts a lot of interest
in research and practice worldwide. The construction industry the world over has both positive
and negative influences on the environment but until recently, there has been urgency towards
controlling the effects of buildings and infrastructure on the environment due to the harmful
effects associated with global warming. Construction of buildings obviously have positive
impacts on the physical environment since it contributes to facility enhancement and the built
environment development thereby providing shelter, accommodation for inhabitants within any
country thus boosting the economy of any country. Othman and Nadim (2010) attempt to explain
sustainable construction as aiming at fulfilling the needs of the current generation without
hindering future generations of meeting their own needs when the need arises. Construction
activities have immense adverse effects on the environment. A lot of raw materials are harvested
from the environment and these are manufactured by 40% of the global total economy worldwide.
50%, 40% and 50% account for material resources, energy consumption and total waste generated
worldwide. Large consumption of energy exist during the procurement of construction materials
and activities of construction like heating and cooling of these systems of production Othman,
(2007). Since researchers argue that construction continually have negative effects on the
ecosystem, the process of construction is should be properly monitored and regulated to prevent
the environment from the adverse impact it generates and hence the global focus on Sustainable
construction project delivery.
Sustainable construction project delivery is a way of monitoring the construction process
throughout the various project phases in the development of buildings through the inception of
the project to the construction and the occupancy phases and making sure that sustainable
construction processes and methods are used in the eventual delivery of the project to the client.
Sustainability in construction and project delivery should be referred to as greening depending
on choice of the designer. In the past years, scholars from different fields have studied
sustainability and for this research, trends between 2003-2017 in the subject will be reviewed and
analysed. As a result, the review intends on addressing these issues:
1. Finding out the leading researchable areas in sustainable construction project
delivery?
2. Leading researchers and contributors in research of sustainability and construction
project delivery from 2003-2017?
3. Which part of the world has invested so much into research on sustainable
construction project delivery?
4. Data collection and analysis methods in the subject area
5. What are the areas research is tending towards in sustainable construction project
delivery

Current Research Trends on Sustainable Construction Project Delivery
6. For better understanding and focus, the review paper is categorised based on study.
Firstly, a complete synopsis of sustainable construction project delivery. The second
section gives a detailed explanation of the research methodology used in selecting and
analysis of the published papers that were reviewed, the third section discusses the
result from the reviewed work while the last section gives a conclusion and
recommends likely future areas of research in sustainable construction project
delivery.
2. OVERVIEW OF SUSTAINABILITY IN CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY
In the field of sustainability in construction project delivery, sustainable construction project
delivery is usually used to describe designing and constructing buildings that have less harmful
effects on the environment. Therefore, sustainability in construction projects is referred to as the
comprehensive effects of the building on the social, ecological and economic issues surrounding
the building in the context of the community the building is situated (Kibert 2008). Shen, Tam,
Tam, and Ji (2010) have defined sustainability as relating to construction as the improvement of
environment and society and benefiting the construction organization. Amatepey and Ansah
(2015) have identified nine harmful effects of activities relating to construction projects on the
environment:
1. Toxic waste to the environment
2. Pollutants that find their way into water,
3. Wastes disposal as they are released particularly hazardous wastes
4. Land contamination
5. Materials usage
6. Accessibility to and fro
7. Risks and environmental hazards
8. Effects on biodiversity
Seven principles of sustainable construction are available in the whole value chain of
sustainable construction project delivery related to the resources needed to generating the
continued workings of the built environment namely land, materials, and energy Kibert (2008).
1. Reducing resource consumption
2. Reuing resources
3. Recycling resources
4. Protect nature (nature)
5. Eliminating toxic materials
6. Economics
7. Quality

Figure 1: Sustainability in construction frameworks
Source: Adapted from Kibert (2008)
2.1. Maximisation of Resources in design
Maximising resources in design is important in achieving sustainability in construction thereby
limiting the effects of these resources on the environment and the ecosystem Kibert (2008)
2.2. Resources of land
This is based on sustainable use of land which is precious and minimising the development of
land.
2.3. Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency features should be strictly adhered to in the design of buildings and these
include the type of envelope design, adopting renewable energy sources in generating power and
also using passive design features.
2.4. Water issues
Ground and surface water should be protected as this is a very precious commodity since only a
small portion of the earth yields portable water
3. METHODOLOGY
3.1. Selection of scholarly works
For purpose of this review, two online data bases were used namely, google scholar and science
direct. The first search was done by using Google scholar by using the keywords sustainable,
construction, project, delivery. This generated about 616,000 results in 0.10 seconds that were
filtered according to the year of publications, starting from 2003 to 2017 and finally resulted to a
total of 15,300 publications. The second Google Scholar search was done using sustainable,
construction, project, delivery, Nigeria and year of publication as specific keywords, which
produced 17,400 publications. Hence the selected relevant papers were downloaded from open
access.

Furthermore sustainable, construction, project, delivery,green buildings were keywords used
on the sciencedirect data base and this generated 6,129 papers. The generated results were further
streamlined by the year of publication starting from 2003-2017, topic related to the area filtered
and content type filter from journals and books resulting in a total of 4,086 published papers from
which a total of 120 published papers were selected with open access and downloaded from the
two online databases used for the search. 50 most relevant papers were considered for the purpose
of the review work. The selection process revealed that papers on sustainable construction project
delivery are mostly published in international conferences like the association of researchers in
construction management (5), journal for study in human settlements (3),renewable and
sustainable energy journal (3), energy and building journal(2), journal on book history (2),
international conference on sustainable design (2), building and environment journal (1),
ecological indicators journal (1), journal of architectural engineering technology (1), american
journal of engineering research (1), ecological indicators journal (1), international journal on
construction supply chain management (1), environmental impact assessment journal (1), journal
of environment and earth science (1), research conservation and recycling journal (1). Also some
papers in the field of sustainable construction project delivery were found in conferences like
sustainable construction in developing countries Africa position, international conference
sustainable buildings asia, conference on applied human factors, applied energy symposium and
forum, agenda for what obtains in developing countries, transport research arena,
3.2. Analysing main authors contributions in sustainable construction project
delivery
(Minger, 2007) mentioned that to measure the contribution of an author and the impact of any
paper, the number of citations received by the paper is considered which shows the impact of the
paper in the field of research as concerning its relevance and application. This citation can be
recorded as the total citation or mean citation of a paper. Yuan and Shen(2011) also considered
in measuring main authors contribution, a system where a particular number is calculated using
Howard et al (1987) formula for appreciating authors contribution in a paper for each author in a
situation where there are more than one author based on their position in the publication, then a
summation of score by an author in each paper is gotten as the authors contribution in the field
of sustainability in construction and delivery of projects.
This review work has adopted the method used by Yuan and Shen (2011) for scoring each
authors contribution stating that the whole paper has an aggregate score of 1. Therefore, for a sole
author, the score is 1.00. If a paper has two authors, in this order, the authors will be scored 0.60
and 0.40 respectively. If the paper involved three authors, in that order the authors will be scored
0.47, 0.32, and 0.21 respectively. If on the other hand the paper involves four authors, in this
order the authors will be scored 0.42, 0.28, 0.18 and 0.12 respectively and if the paper involved
five authors, in this order the authors will be scored 0.38, 0.27, 0.17, 0.11 and 0.08 respectively
is adopted. This scoring method is based on Howard et al (1987) formulae for appreciating
author’s contribution in paper. For the citations of each author, the summation of the citations of
each paper written by the author is gotten and recorded as the citations for such author, in this
study all authors in a particular publication share equally the number of citation for the paper.
Main authors were identified based on the number of papers they have written from the
sample considered for this review purpose. The main authors must have written more than one
paper on sustainability in construction project delivery from papers reviewed. A total of fourteen
authors were identified writing on sustainable construction project delivery from 2003-2017 and
their contributions measured. Zahry Othman, Mohammed Salama, Chieng Siew Goh, Steven
Rowlinson, Adebayo Oladapo, XhialongZhange, Chengjung Jiu, Ki Pyum Kim, Kenneth Sungo
Park, Eyiah Botwe, Shafii,Ali, Hill Bowen, Mohammed Alsubeh and Abraham Mak Jok. The

only two main authors that had passion for the research in sustainable construction project
delivery in Nigeria were Ambrose Adebayo and Obas John Ebohon.
3.3. Classification of identified papers
For the purpose of this review work, the papers identified are classified into three areas. The first
classification is based on identified areas of interest in sustainable construction project delivery.
The second classification will be based on the identified research approach methods used and
method for data analysis in carrying out studies in areas related sustainable construction project
delivery and the third classification will be based on measurement of author’s contributions to
the field of sustainable construction project. The review highlighted thirteen major areas of
studying construction project delivery as follows:
1. achieving sustainable construction,
2. Integration of sustainability principles
3. strategies for delivery of sustainable buildings,
4. Sustainable building process
5. Sustainable building assessment
6. approaches for delivery of sustainable projects,
7. renewable energy development,
8. green building incentives,
9. sustainable implementation
10. sustainable project delivery
11. International sustainability index
12. Sustainability assessment systems
13. Sustainable building design and programming
Further additions to the above listed areas during the review, new areas were identified as
approaches to delivering infrastructure projects, impact of construction activities, balanced
sustainable implementation, and green building research. This with the earlier identified areas is
used in this research work and also should be considered as areas for future research work in
sustainable construction project delivery.
4. FINDINGS, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSIONS
Discussions of results are highlighted. This is discussed as presented. into three sections. Firstly,
it discusses tresult categorisation into areas of research in sustainable construction project
delivery and the locations in which this research in sustainable construction project delivery have
been carried out between the year 2003-2017., the second session discusses the result of the
methods used in carrying out and analysing the data collected from this research papers from
2003-2017 and the third section analyses the authors that have contributed to the identified areas
in sustainable construction project delivery and results from the measurement of the identified
main authors between the year2003-the year 2017.
4.1. Categorisation based on identified areas of research and geographical location
where researchers in sustainable construction project delivery is carried out from
2003-2017
Scholarly research works have been done and published from the field of sustainabilityin project
delivery but for this research, 50 selected papers were thoroughly reviewed and divided into
different areas based on the identified areas of interest from the papers reviewed.. Each paper was

reviewed and categorised into areas of research in sustainable construction project delivery they
fall into judging with the topics and the aims of each paper reviewed. These are highlighted in
table 1.
Table 1: Classification of papers into identified areas in sustainable construction project delivery from
year 2003-2017
Areas of research in sustainable construction
project delivery
Number of
published papers
Achieving sustainable construction 23
Integration of sustainability principles 2
Strategies for delivery of sustainable buildings 2
Sustainable building process 2
Sustainable building assessment 1
Approaches for delivery of sustainable projects 1
Renewable energy development 2
Green building incentives 2
Sustainable implementation 2
Sustainable project delivery 2
International sustainability index 1
Sustainability assessment systems 1
Programming for sustainable building design 1
Paradigm shift in sustainable commercial
projects
1
The result shows that some of the papers fell into more than one area of research which reveals
that it is possible in the field of sustainable construction project delivery to write in more than
one or two areas depending on how related the area. For instance, it is possible to write on
sustainable construction and strategies for delivery of sustainable buildings. Furthermore, during
the process of categorising the papers into identified areas, a further analysis was done by
categorising the works based on location in which the research were carried out, showing the part
of the world that have been the frontiers in research of sustainable construction project delivery
from 2003-2017, the findings shown in table 2 below.
Table 2: Classificationa about locations sustainable construction project delivery were carried out from
2003-2017
Geographical Locations
Number of published
papers
United Kingdom 12
America 5
Hong kong 4
Malaysia 5
China 2
Egypt 1
Australia 4
South Africa 5
Finland 1

Republic of Korea 2
Turkey 1
Kuwait 1
Ghana 1
Australia 1
Serbia 1
India 1
Sweden 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Jordan 1
The review results shows that most of the research work reviewed were done in the United
Kingdom due to the fact that sustainable construction has been well practiced there for quite some
time now. Next to the United Kingdom was America where sustainable construction project
delivery has been a major topical issue for quite some time and this has led to the LEED rating
system in America for ensuring that buildings pass the LEED certification before the project
commences. South Africa and Malaysia were next in hierarchy. The result from the review
showed that Nigeria as a developing country is still behind in research on sustainability in
construction project delivery as compared with other developed countries.
4.2 Categorisation based on research approach, data collection tools, analysis in
sustainable construction project delivery between 2003-2017
This section discusses the methodology used by different authors in each paper on sustainable
construction project delivery reviewed. It is subdivided into approaches used for the research in
sustainable construction project delivery from 2003-2017.
4.2.1. Approach used for the research in sustainable construction project delivery
This review identified three major approaches used by various authors in the field of sustainable
construction project delivery although in some, case mix approaches were used for the purpose
of their study. All the papers conducted a review of literature to establish the area the research is
interested in and to introduce the paper, and then later use a particular approach for their study.
Table 3 Classification based on research method approach used
Approaches
Number of published
papers
Examples of few authors who used the
research approach
Survey 11
(Abraham, et al,2014, Muhaned, et al
2010,Ahmad,2015)
Case study 6
(Afolabi,2014, Eyiah-Botwe,2016, Shafii,
2006)
Review 25
(Dimitriou,etal,2012,Ju,etal,2016,Rafindadi,et
al,2014,Zuo,et al,2014)
The result showed that three major approaches are identified as possible study approaches
used in sustainable construction project delivery and these are survey approach, case study
approach and review approach. It was also noticed that some paper made use of more than one
approach.

4.2.2. Classification based on means/tools for data collection
This session is aimed at identifying tools used in collection of data in each paper reviewed. The
result of the tools majorly used in the field of sustainable construction project delivery is stated
in table 4 below. Findings shown in table 4 below cannot add up to a total of 50 because some
authors used more than one tool to collect data for the purpose of each publication.
Table 4 Classification based on tools used for data collection
Method of data collection
Number of published
papers
Some authors
Questionnaires 24
(Gan, 2015, Makuei, 2014, Salama,, 2010,
Seyis,2017)
interviews 18
(Mousa 2015, Rafindadi,et al,2014,
Häkkinen,et al 2013
Online survey 1 (Gransberg et al 2009)
Purposive sampling 1 (Goh et al (2013)
The result showed that there are four methods used for collecting data in sustainable
construction project delivery and they are all used depending on the one that best suits the authors
at any point in time and the area of work. The tools were questionnaires, interviews of
stakeholders, online surveys and purposive sampling methods. Some authors also used more than
one method.
4.2.3. Methods for data analysis
This section analysed the method used in each paper for analysing data collected in the field of
sustainable construction project delivery from 2003-2017.
Table 5 Classification based on method used for data analysis
Method for data analysis Number of published papers
Descriptive statistical analysis 23
Modelling and software simulations 12
Mean score (average index method) 10
The results identified three distinctive methods of data analysis and these included descriptive
statiscal analysis, modelling and software simulations and mean score (average index method)
used by researchers in analysing data collected in the field of sustainable construction project
delivery.
4.3 Categorisation based on measurement of authors contribution to sustainable
construction project delivery from 2003-2017
This section highlights various authors that have worked in the identified research areas on
sustainable construction project dlivery. It further has identified the main authors on sustainable
construction project delivery from between the year 2003-2017. The impacts of these main
authors has also been measured using the adopted method by Yuan and Shen, (2011) which was
adapted from Howard et al, (1987) formula for measuring authors contribution especially when
there are co-writers. The value allocated to each author reduces geometrically based on the rank
in arrangement and the total number of the authors involved.

Table 6: Authors reviewed classified based on identified areas in sustainable construction project
delivery
Areas of Research Authors by name
Achieving sustainable construction
(Alsubeh,2013: Shafii,Ali and Othman,2013:
Irurah,2013;Griffin,2005;Dania, Larsen and
Ewert,2015;Goh and Rowlinson,2015;Salama
and Hana,2010;
Botwe, Aigbavboa and Thwala 2016;)
Integration of sustainability principles (Tan, Shen and Yao 2011)
Strategies for delivery of sustainable buildings (Vanegas and Pearce 2008)
Sustainable building process (Häkkinen and Nykänen 2002)
Sustainable building assessment (Hill Bowen and Opperman 20012;)
Approaches for delivery of sustainable projects (Bidarianzadeh and Fortune ,2002,
Renewable energy development
(Hoseini,Dahlan,Barardi,Hoseini,Makaremi,
2013)
Green building incentives (Olubunmi,Xia and Skitmore 2016)
Sustainable implementation
(Kam,Robinson and Prasad 2008;Whang and Kim
2015)
Sustainable project delivery
(Hayles and
Fong,2008;Ochieng,Wynn,Zuofa,Ruan,Price and
Okafor 2014;)
International sustainability index
(Dimitriou,Ward and Wright 2012;Othman and
Nadim 2010)
Sustainability assessment systems (Kim,Oh and Kim 2013)
Programming for sustainable building design (Salama and Adams,2004)
Paradigm shift in sustainable commercial
projects
(Zhang,2014)
The result in table 6 shows the categorisation of authors of the papers reviewed into the 14
identified areas in the field of sustainable construction project delivery which gives reference of
50 publications reviewed. This result can serve as a reference for further research in the on
sustainable construction project delivery. Also reveals areas where research work is limited as
well as areas where research is tending towards judging from the areas that reflected more as an
area of interest to researchers in the past five years (that is between 2011-1017).
Table 7: Main author’s contribution based on numbers of citations and authorship contribution score
Main Authors Number of Publications Citations Authorship Score
Zahry Othman 9 356 3.61
Mohammed Salama 8 245 5.1
Chieng Siew Goh 6 356 1.85
Steven Rowlinson 5 272 2.17
Adebayo Oladapo 5 87 1.58
XhialongZhange 4 367 1.18
Chengjung Jiu 3 54 1.05
Ki Pyum Kim 3 210 2
Kenneth Sungo Park 2 34 0.64
Eyiah Botwe 2 11 1.32
Shafii,Ali 2 34 0.64

Hill Bowen 2 11 1.32
Mohammed Alsubeh 2 45 0.64
Abraham Mak Jok 2 11 1.32
The result revealed 14 main authors and their contributions are detailed in table 7 above. The
result revealed that regardless of the number of papers that might have been written by an author,
it is possible that some other authors who have not written much can have more contributions to
research. This is because the impact of an author is mainly measured from their level of
commitment and involvement in the research work and also the number of citations the work
receives. Although it is also obvious that the more work published, the more relevant such work
can be in the field of research. The number of citations a research work received can be influenced
by the influence level of the author, the journal the work was published and even other authors
of the research.
5. FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS AND CONCLUSION
This session gives an insight into the areas in the field of sustainable construction project delivery
that research can tend towards in the future and also give a brief conclusion to the review article
5.1. Identified Future Research Areas
The result from table reveals that there are some areas in the field of sustainable construction
project delivery that have attracted little attention from researchers but have been noticed to draw
some attention from 2010 to 2017. These areas are:
1. Approaches to delivering infrastructure projects; From the result of this review, it is
revealed that more research can be done especially as regards approaches to delivering
infrastructure projects in sustainable construction project delivery processes
2. Impact of construction activities: The findings of this review work further revealed
that more research can be done on the impacts of construction projects towards
achieving sustainable construction project delivery
3. Balanced sustainable implementation: The result of this review shows more research
can be done in the area of balanced sustainable implementation in sustainable
construction project delivery
4. Green building research: The result of this review shows more research can be done
in this area of research
5.2. Conclusion
This review work has been able to categorise the field of sustainable construction project delivery
into 10 major areas of study and these are achieving sustainable construction, integration of
sustainability principles, strategies for delivery of sustainable buildings, sustainable building
process, sustainable building assessment, approaches for delivery of sustainable projects,
renewable energy development, green building incentives, sustainable implementation,
sustainable project delivery, international sustainability index, sustainability assessment systems,
programming for sustainable building design, and paradigm shift in sustainable commercial
projects. The review further identified 14 main authors who have contributed by writing more
than one paper in the field of sustainable construction project delivery between the years 2003-
2017 as Zahry Othman, Mohammed Salama, Chieng Siew Goh, Steven Rowlinson, Adebayo
Oladapo, XhialongZhange, Chengjung Jiu, Ki Pyum Kim, Kenneth Sungo Park, Eyiah Botwe,
Shafii,Ali, Hill Bowen, Mohammed Alsubeh and Abraham Mak Jok. The review work also has
been able to identify the three main approaches for conducting research which are survey
approach, case study approach and review approach. It also identified the five main tools for
collection of data as questionnaire, interviews, online data and purposive sampling methods.

Descriptive statistical analysis, Modelling and software simulation and mean score average index
method were identified in this review work as the methods used in the field of sustainable
construction project delivery for data analysis. Finally predictions was made as regards future
areas in the field of sustainable construction project delivery research is tending towards as
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors would like to thank the Management of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State,
Nigeria for their support towards the publication of this article.
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