Abstract:
Traditional building methods were primarily concerned with the cost of the product, its
performance, and ensuring that it reached a quality standard. The concept of sustainable
development focuses on contemporary technologies while keeping current environmental
concerns, socioeconomic issues, and human health in mind. Different stakeholders are involved in
construction projects that creates issues like high unpredictability, miscommunication, and lack of
the right information. These issues need to be managed effectively and efficiently to make the
project successful especially to ensure sustainability. There are several Sustainable rating systems
like LEED to manage the factors, in order to minimize the chances of project’s failure by managing
the issues. The reason for the selection of the topic is to determine the drivers that are essential in
sustainable rating system and to develop and suggest an appropriate strategy for the
implementation of sustainable rating system in construction industry to ensure sustainable
development. This research will also help to build the interaction between the underlying drivers
by using the System Thinking Approach with VENSIM software. The author performed a content
analysis to identify the drivers first then performed the surveys successfully to attain the primary
data to finalize the drivers, perform influence matrix and Casual Loop diagram. The primary data
was collected from the experienced construction professionals. The final survey helped the author
to identify the polarity between the drivers that shows the relationships between them. The findings
showed that the selected drivers are interlinked but they have to be managed effectively with the
help of the proposed framework. In a nutshell, managing sustainability in construction is not one
step process and the aspects, discussed in the sustainable rating framework should be considered
to ensure sustainable construction.
