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• The level of sustainable awareness and implementation in current practices in constructions sectors .
• The challenges that facing the sustainability achievement in construction industry . The questionnaire distributed to a 40 random samples of practitioners including , architects , engineers , projects managers , health and safety environment , finance and other professionals . A total of 25 response were received which presents around 63 % while the rest have been neglected . In fact 4 of the response is uncompleted which could not be under consideration . However the 21 responds were not satisfied to the researcher but it were enough to provide outline for investigate the data . Consequently the research should depend on the reality not on the assumption . The survey contains three major sections , the first one investigated information about the participants while the second sector including questions that addressing the level of the involvement in sustainability practices and the sustainable awareness of the practitioners . The third section highlighted the major challenges that facing the sustainability achievement
3.1 Participant profile This part of the survey focuses on the gender , the job classification , company type , in addition to , period time and the location of the experiences in U . A . E in order to comparing between levels of sustainability implementation from emirate to another . Meanwhile the participant ’ s nationality and company ’ s profile as ( international or local ) can compare the variety of the sustainability knowledge .
3.2 Current practices : This section designed to achieve full concept about the current practices of construction in order address the awareness of the participants and the level of sustainability update in the context of United Arab Emirates . It contains 20 questions with multiple choices ranging from always ( which mean maximum score ) till I don ’ t know ( which mean lack of awareness ) The table below shows the scoring system from 5- 1 to give the participant answers levels of score for example choosing of always score 5 which is the maximum for measuring the sustainability levels while “ don ’ t know scored 0 which means breakdown in understanding and knowledge about sustainability .
Table 1 explain the scoring system
Always
Almost Always
Sometimes
Almost Never
Never
Don ’ t know
5
4
3
2
1
0
In order to evaluate the Sustainability achievement The questions covered the following key area :
• The integrated design
• The flexibility in design
• Passive design
• The use of renewable energy ,
• The building lifespan ,
• The used of local materials
• The awareness and knowledge of sustainability
3.3 Challenges The last section of the survey highlighted the challenges which facing the sustainability in U . A . E context , it contains 10 statements with multiple choices ranging from ( strongly agree , moderate agree , undecided , moderately disagree , strongly disagree and don ’ t know ). The choices of strongly agree scored 5 while don ’ t know scored 0 which measuring the misunderstanding and lack of
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