TY - JOUR
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Factor analysis
KW - Surveys
KW - Reliability analysis
KW - Assessment framework
KW - Confirmatory factor analysis
KW - Economic growths
KW - Infrastructure development
KW - Infrastructure project
KW - Innovative assessment
KW - Multivariant analysis
KW - Reliability and validity
KW - Social sustainability
KW - Standard of living
KW - Supply chains
KW - Sustainable infrastructure
AU - Melissa Chan
AU - Hongyu Jin
AU - David van Kan
AU - Zora Vrcelj
AB - Infrastructure plays a vital role in improving people s standard of living and contributing to economic growth. Compared with other construction types, infrastructure has longer operational periods, more complex supply chains and more significant impacts on communities. As a result, the concept of sustainable infrastructure has been put forward, and scholars have been developing assessment frameworks to ensure balanced economic, environmental and social outcomes of infrastructure projects. By reviewing the existing assessment frameworks for infrastructure projects, it has been found that there is a lack of criteria for measuring the intangible impacts of infrastructure projects on local communities, such as public mental health and intangible heritage management. The measurement of social sustainability is also insufficient in most assessment frameworks. This research contributes to the body of knowledge by developing an innovative assessment framework to incorporate the components and subcomponents highlighted in the literature and those that are usually overlooked but significant in measuring the intangible influences and social sustainability of infrastructures. The research adopted mixed methods, including a questionnaire survey, focus group interview and confirmatory factor analysis, to evaluate the reliability and validity of the proposed framework. The data analysis outcomes confirmed that the final framework has reasonable reliability and validity and, therefore, it can serve as a valuable reference for future sustainable infrastructure development.
BT - Journal of Cleaner Production
DA - sep
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133185
LA - English
N1 - Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
N2 - Infrastructure plays a vital role in improving people s standard of living and contributing to economic growth. Compared with other construction types, infrastructure has longer operational periods, more complex supply chains and more significant impacts on communities. As a result, the concept of sustainable infrastructure has been put forward, and scholars have been developing assessment frameworks to ensure balanced economic, environmental and social outcomes of infrastructure projects. By reviewing the existing assessment frameworks for infrastructure projects, it has been found that there is a lack of criteria for measuring the intangible impacts of infrastructure projects on local communities, such as public mental health and intangible heritage management. The measurement of social sustainability is also insufficient in most assessment frameworks. This research contributes to the body of knowledge by developing an innovative assessment framework to incorporate the components and subcomponents highlighted in the literature and those that are usually overlooked but significant in measuring the intangible influences and social sustainability of infrastructures. The research adopted mixed methods, including a questionnaire survey, focus group interview and confirmatory factor analysis, to evaluate the reliability and validity of the proposed framework. The data analysis outcomes confirmed that the final framework has reasonable reliability and validity and, therefore, it can serve as a valuable reference for future sustainable infrastructure development.
PY - 2022
T2 - Journal of Cleaner Production
TI - Developing an innovative assessment framework for sustainable infrastructure development
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135415858&doi=10.1016%2fj.jclepro.2022.133185&partnerID=40&md5=e76f2a776cd178c71444c56205cd043d
VL - 368
SN - 09596526 (ISSN)
ER -