Analyzing green construction development barriers by a hybrid decision-making method based on DEMATEL and the ANP
Date
2022
Authors
Kamranfar, Saeed
Azimi, Yousef
Gheibi, Mohammad
Fathollahi-Fard, Amir M.
Hajiaghaei-Keshteli, Mostafa
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Publisher
Buildings
Abstract
There is a great deal of interest in analyzing construction development barriers to identify
and rank them based on sustainability criteria and have less environmental pollution. Due to the
importance of construction projects in developing countries such as Iran, this study implements a
green construction development paradigm to identify and rank barriers for a case study in Tehran,
Iran. The main novelty of this paper is the development of a new decision-making method using
the DEMATEL and Delphi techniques and the ANP. In this regard, first of all, data collection is
performed through a literature review and survey studies using questionnaires, interviews, and
observations. The applied method for experts’ agreement was integrated through brainstorming and
the classical Delphi method. By analyzing different economic, environmental, cultural, and social
criteria using a hybrid decision-making framework, the results show that the main economic barrier
with a weight of 0.2607 is ranked first, while the main feature of economic assessment is connected to
the risk of investment. The cultural and social barriers, with a weight of 0.2258, ranked second, and
the managerial barrier, with a weight of 0.2052, ranked third. In the social and managerial aspects,
the main barriers were related to looking at green construction as luxurious and the uncertainty
of green construction performance due to the climate and texture of the local area, respectively.
According to the findings and results, the proposed barriers and sub-barriers in this study can be
used to develop and create planning at the strategic level for the development of green construction
for our case study in Tehran, Iran. With a concentration on the outcomes of the present research,
the sustainable green building framework can be implemented by the application of a prioritized
knowledge management concept.
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Keywords
green construction development barriers, identification of barriers, ranking of barriers, DEMATEL, ANP
Citation
Kamranfar, S., Azimi, Y., Gheibi, M., Fathollahi-Fard, A. M., & Hajiaghaei-Keshteli, M. (2022). “Analyzing green construction development barriers by a hybrid decision-making method based on DEMATEL and the ANP.” Buildings, 12(10), 1641. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101641