Exploring Opportunities and Challenges of Construction Green Procurement in Sri Lanka
Mannamarakkalage, Madhushika (2025)
2025
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2025052616064
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Due to widespread awareness of environmental degradation Green Procurement practices have been growing hastily. Although many industries have adopted green procurement in their procurement decisions, the Sri Lankan Construction sector is still at a nascent stage in implementing green procurement to procurement decisions. And still, numerous industry-specific players continue to persist the traditional procurement. The purpose of this study is to explore the opportunities, challenges, and current practices of Green procurement in the Sri Lankan construction industry and extended a solid theoretical foundation from the perspective of a developing country.
The study employed a self-administrated survey to collect the data and analyzed data to identify country specific opportunities and challenges then compared current practices with Finland as the model country. Correspondingly, this paper attempted to find out the gap in Sri Lankan policy and regulations that impede extensive implementation of GP in Sri Lanka.
The results of the study is that cost concerns and lack of government guidelines are major challenges to green procurement adoption in Sri Lanka while waste reduction and improved working environment are identified as key opportunities gained from green procurement. Even though currently Sri Lanka has gaps in green procurement implementation yet there is a potential.
The study employed a self-administrated survey to collect the data and analyzed data to identify country specific opportunities and challenges then compared current practices with Finland as the model country. Correspondingly, this paper attempted to find out the gap in Sri Lankan policy and regulations that impede extensive implementation of GP in Sri Lanka.
The results of the study is that cost concerns and lack of government guidelines are major challenges to green procurement adoption in Sri Lanka while waste reduction and improved working environment are identified as key opportunities gained from green procurement. Even though currently Sri Lanka has gaps in green procurement implementation yet there is a potential.