Sustainable regeneration project delivery in UK: A qualitative analysis of practitioners’ engagement
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Akotia, J. and Opoku, A. 2018. Sustainable regeneration project delivery in UK: A qualitative analysis of practitioners’ engagement. Journal of Facilities Management. 16 (1), pp. 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFM-05-2017-0024
Authors | Akotia, J. and Opoku, A. |
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Abstract | Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the key practitioners’ level of involvement in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects in the UK. Practitioners’ level of involvement is a major factor that has and continues to determine the delivery of sustainability outcomes of regeneration projects. The paper adopted a qualitative study that obtained data from 21 key practitioners through semi-structured interviews in exploring practitioners’ level of involvement in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects in the UK. The semi-structured interviews are conducted with seven practitioners, each from the three construction organisations selected through a purposive sampling approach for the study. The findings identify varied levels of involvement of the key practitioners at the three delivery stages – early, construction and post-construction of the projects. The findings further reveal that clients’ representatives, commercial managers and architects are the most frequently involved practitioners during the early stages of the projects. The findings also indicate that practitioners who have sustainability assigned to their roles and their responsibilities, such as sustainability managers, are the least involved in all the three delivery stages of the projects. The study involves interview with 21 practitioners from three organisations delivering sustainable regeneration projects; hence, this could limit the generalisation of the research findings. However, the findings of this study could serve as a useful source of information for the further study in this area. The paper is of the view that the level of key practitioners’ involvement in the delivery of the projects will have an impact on their knowledge and will determine how sustainability benefits are promoted and delivered from the projects. Although some studies have been carried out on practitioners’ engagement in the delivery of “normal” construction projects, none has focussed on practitioners’ levels of involvement in sustainable regeneration projects. Hence, this study has brought to the fore how the key practitioners tasked with the responsibilities of delivering sustainability benefits of regeneration projects have been involved (at various levels of the project life cycle) in the delivery of these projects. |
Journal | Journal of Facilities Management |
Journal citation | 16 (1), pp. 87-100 |
ISSN | 1472-5967 |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | Emerald |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Anyone |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1108/JFM-05-2017-0024 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1108/JFM-05-2017-0024 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 05 Feb 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 27 Nov 2017 |
Deposited | 11 Jul 2019 |
Copyright holder | © 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited. |
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