An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia

Sustainable procurement is an emerging theme in the construction industry across the globe. However, organizations in the construction industry often encounter impediments in improving environmental performance in construction projects, especially in procurement. Besides its other facets, procuremen...

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Main Authors:	M., Waris, Panigrahi, Shrikant, Mengal, Abdullah, Soomro, Mujeeb Iqbal, Mirjat, Nayyar Hussain, Ullah, Mehfooz, Zarith Sufia, Azlan, Khan, Asadullah
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Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2019
Subjects:	HD Industries. Land use. Labor
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spelling	ump-263272019-11-06T01:57:37Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26327/ An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia M., Waris Panigrahi, Shrikant Mengal, Abdullah Soomro, Mujeeb Iqbal Mirjat, Nayyar Hussain Ullah, Mehfooz Zarith Sufia, Azlan Khan, Asadullah HD Industries. Land use. Labor Sustainable procurement is an emerging theme in the construction industry across the globe. However, organizations in the construction industry often encounter impediments in improving environmental performance in construction projects, especially in procurement. Besides its other facets, procurement of construction equipment is inherited to be capital-intensive and vital for managing environmental concerns associated with built environment projects. In this regard, selection criteria in such procurement processes are generally supportive of considering cost and engineering specifications as key parameters. However, sustainability apprehensions in today’s Malaysian construction industry have mounted pressure on industry professionals to rethink their equipment acquisition strategies. The notion of green or sustainable procurement is still infancy for the Malaysian construction industry and facing challenges for embedding it in the current procurement practices. This research aims to address these apprehensions by considering six main criteria, namely, life cycle cost (LCC), performance (P), system capability (SC), operational convenience (OC), environmental impact (EI), and social benefits (SBs), and their 38 subcriteria towards procurement of sustainable construction equipment. A multicriteria-based equipment selection framework on the triple bottom line of sustainability in the context of the Malaysian construction industry has been developed and tested. The application of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) established the sustainable procurement index with a consistent sensitivity analysis results. As such, the proposed procurement index shall help decision-makers in the process of the acquisition of sustainable construction equipment in Malaysia. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2019 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26327/1/An%20Application%20of%20Analytic%20Hierarchy%20Process%20%28AHP%29.pdf M., Waris and Panigrahi, Shrikant and Mengal, Abdullah and Soomro, Mujeeb Iqbal and Mirjat, Nayyar Hussain and Ullah, Mehfooz and Zarith Sufia, Azlan and Khan, Asadullah (2019) An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2019 (6391431). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1024-123X (print); 1563-5147 (online) https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6391431 https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6391431
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spellingShingle	HD Industries. Land use. Labor M., Waris Panigrahi, Shrikant Mengal, Abdullah Soomro, Mujeeb Iqbal Mirjat, Nayyar Hussain Ullah, Mehfooz Zarith Sufia, Azlan Khan, Asadullah An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia
description	Sustainable procurement is an emerging theme in the construction industry across the globe. However, organizations in the construction industry often encounter impediments in improving environmental performance in construction projects, especially in procurement. Besides its other facets, procurement of construction equipment is inherited to be capital-intensive and vital for managing environmental concerns associated with built environment projects. In this regard, selection criteria in such procurement processes are generally supportive of considering cost and engineering specifications as key parameters. However, sustainability apprehensions in today’s Malaysian construction industry have mounted pressure on industry professionals to rethink their equipment acquisition strategies. The notion of green or sustainable procurement is still infancy for the Malaysian construction industry and facing challenges for embedding it in the current procurement practices. This research aims to address these apprehensions by considering six main criteria, namely, life cycle cost (LCC), performance (P), system capability (SC), operational convenience (OC), environmental impact (EI), and social benefits (SBs), and their 38 subcriteria towards procurement of sustainable construction equipment. A multicriteria-based equipment selection framework on the triple bottom line of sustainability in the context of the Malaysian construction industry has been developed and tested. The application of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) established the sustainable procurement index with a consistent sensitivity analysis results. As such, the proposed procurement index shall help decision-makers in the process of the acquisition of sustainable construction equipment in Malaysia.
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author	M., Waris Panigrahi, Shrikant Mengal, Abdullah Soomro, Mujeeb Iqbal Mirjat, Nayyar Hussain Ullah, Mehfooz Zarith Sufia, Azlan Khan, Asadullah
author_facet	M., Waris Panigrahi, Shrikant Mengal, Abdullah Soomro, Mujeeb Iqbal Mirjat, Nayyar Hussain Ullah, Mehfooz Zarith Sufia, Azlan Khan, Asadullah
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title	An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia
title_short	An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia
title_full	An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia
title_fullStr	An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia
title_sort	application of analytic hierarchy process (ahp) for sustainable procurement of construction equipment: multicriteria-based decision framework for malaysia
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate	2019
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An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Sustainable Procurement of Construction Equipment: Multicriteria-Based Decision Framework for Malaysia

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