The perception and challenges of construction stakeholder towards emissions reduction in Malaysia

The increase of global carbon emissions has become an important global issue worldwide including, Malaysia. The construction industry is a large contributor to global emissions despite its efforts of becoming more aligned with sustainability practices. Malaysia has announced a commitment to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions by delineating the number of measures and targets. However, this commitment has not been greeted with much optimism by all the key players which are believed to be related to the lack of incentives and regulatory procedures to guide into sustainable building construction. In response to this need, this study aims to examine the perception and awareness of construction stakeholder towards emission reduction in construction. Specifically, the research aims to achieve the following objectives; 1) to examine the perception and awareness of construction stakeholder towards emissions reduction in construction, and 2) to identify the challenges that have been faced by construction stakeholder in implementing emissions reduction strategies. In order to achieve the objectives, the questionnaires and interviews have been conducted to 37 construction companies in Selangor. A statistical analysis by using descriptive analysis of relative index and SPSS program is carried out to analyze the data. The findings demonstrate that the majority of the company appear not to monitor emissions in construction site and most of them have a little information about the emissions reduction policy program. The implication of this research lies in providing insight on the strategies and challenges that have been faced by construction stakeholder towards emissions reduction which will help the policy maker in developing an efficient policy, guidelines and regulatory framework of construction emissions reduction schemes.