Barriers and project management practices in green buildings

Building construction includes wide range of activities, such as extracting materials, treating and utilising them for
construction, executing and operating the building and finally demolishing it after its life span. All these process results
in enormous consumption of available resources and generate large amount of green house gases. This apparently
results in global warming and resource depletion. Green buildings are considered as the optimal solution to overcome
the negative effects of construction industry over the environment. Green buildings have manifold benefits in different
sectors such as environment, economic and social. Hence many construction sectors across the world have now leaned
towards green construction. In recent decades exponential growth of green buildings is observed globally. Though
green building has attained considerable growth, there are several hurdles and challenges need to be faced from the
constructor side. Also, the current management practices adopted in conventional building may not satisfy the
requirements of the green building. The main theme of the paper is about barriers and project management practices
in green building industry, since the other things are only supporting elements it is not included in the abstract. The
design complexity in green building requires more modification in the existing project management practices. This
paper listed out the barriers faced by the green building constructors as well as project management practices needs to
be adopted to achieve green goal.