Comparative study of project management and critical success factors of greening new and existing buildings in Singapore

Structural Survey

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 413-433

  Low, Sui Pheng ^a   Gao, Shang ^b   Tay, Wen Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Critical success factors (CSFs); Green buildings; Project management; Retrofit projects; Singapore

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RETROFITTING;

BUILDING CATEGORIES; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GREEN BUILDING PROJECTS; GREEN BUILDINGS; RETROFIT PROJECT; SINGAPORE; TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84916213745     PISSN: 0263080X     EISSN: 17586844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SS-12-2013-0040     Document Type: Article

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