Social Life Cycle Assessment in the Turkish Construction Industry: A Survey Study


Altınkaynak Akıncı T., Zeybek G., Giran Ö.

8th International Project and Construction Management Conference (IPCMC2024), İstanbul, Türkiye, 6 - 07 Haziran 2024, sa.106, ss.379-386, (Tam Metin Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.379-386
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet

Özet

The construction industry, with high resource consumption and waste production, requires a life cycle analysis considering environmental, economic, and social factors for sustainable development. The sector's multi-stakeholder structure affects numerous individuals, making it crucial to analyze its social and socio-economics impacts. A social life cycle assessment was conducted to identify the social and socio-economic aspects of various stakeholders which are selected as worker, employer, society in the Turkish construction industry through a survey. S-LCA awareness in the Turkish construction industry was found to be 28.5%, based on the findings of a survey in which 109 stakeholders participated. Employers consider themselves to have faced discrimination in accessing opportunities that provide equal opportunities, such as state support. It was concluded that worker performance in the construction industry will increase if the social issues of freedom of association, collective bargaining, training and education are improved. The only social indicator that society stakeholder appears to be pleased with is local employment.