Analysis of the Impact Factors of Green Construction Implementation on Environmental, Social, and Economic Factors in Construction Projects in Surabaya

Abstract

Green Construction is a sustainable movement aimed at creating environmentally friendly, energy- and resource-efficient, and cost-effective construction processes—from planning to execution and the use of construction products. Green Construction refers to the concept of implementing eco-friendly building practices in which construction projects are planned and managed in accordance with contract documents to minimize the impact on the construction process and the environment. In practice, however, some construction projects still fail to be successfully implemented even when adopting the green construction concept. One of the main obstacles to its application is the lack of understanding of Green Construction itself. Therefore, this research aims to identify contractors' awareness of the challenges and impacts of Green Construction on environmental, economic, and social factors in Surabaya city. Used quantitative and analyzed using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) method to determine the impact of Green Construction implementation on these three factors. The results of this research showed that Green Construction has an influence impact to the environmental factors is 38.6%, 23% on social factors, and 18.9% on economic factors.