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研究生： 郭博信
Barahona, Jose Elias
論文名稱： 環境管理系統實施之障礙與可能改善方法
EMS Implementation Barriers and Possible Improvement Methods
指導教授： 張行道
Chang, Shing-Tao
學位類別： 碩士
Master
系所名稱： 工學院 - 土木工程學系
Department of Civil Engineering
論文出版年： 2017
畢業學年度： 105
語文別： 英文
論文頁數： 74
外文關鍵詞： Environmental Management Systems, ISO14001, implementation barriers, EM practices, EM methods, construction industry
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    • Environmental Management System (EMS) has emerged as one of the recent methods for companies to achieve sustainable development. Studies have identified the barriers, and benefits for implementing an EMS as well as the evaluation of an EMS environmental performance. But they seldom provide concrete suggestions or measures to improve the overall performance of an EMS.
    This research investigated the EMS implementation barriers and possible improvement methods. It selected ten manufacturing and ten construction journal papers to study the implementation of EMS. The implementation barriers identified in the twenty studies vary in number and type depending on the research objectives and methodology carried out. A total of 37 barriers were identified from the manufacturing papers, such as lack of manager’s understanding, and 39 barriers identified from construction, such as lack of human resources.
    The EMS implementation barriers were categorized into resources, stakeholders, management and documentation. The manufacturing shows resources (12), stakeholders (12), and management (11) have close numbers of barriers. The construction shows resources (17) has the highest number of barriers, and stakeholders (11) and management (9) follow. This more barriers in resources means the construction implements EMS in an early stage compared with manufacturing, which has moved to overcome the “management” barriers more.
    Nine EM practices and methods were selected from the twenty papers and EMS case studies to overcome the implementation barriers and enhance the environmental performance of an organization. This thesis provided a better understanding of EMS implementation in the construction industry by reviewing journal papers and case studies. Further on, this content can be useful for the development of new studies regarding EMS implementation.

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i ABSTRACT ii TABLE OF CONTENTS iii LIST OF TABLES v LIST OF FIGURES v CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Research Motivation 2 1.2 Research Objectives 2 1.3 Research Method and Process 3 1.4 Research Scope and Limitations 4 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1 EMS and ISO 14001 6 2.1.1 ISO 14001 guideline 6 2.1.2 Motivation for EMS implementation 9 2.2 EMS Studies 10 2.2.1 Objectives and methodologies of EMS studies 11 2.2.2 EMS in the construction industry 13 2.3 EMS Implementation Barriers and Benefits 14 2.3.1 Barriers for EMS implementation 15 2.3.2 Benefits for EMS implementation 16 2.4 EMS and Environmental Performance 18 2.4.1 Environmental performance in the manufacturing industry 18 2.4.2 Environmental performance in the construction industry 20 CHAPTER 3 EMS IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS 22 3.1 EMS Implementation Barriers from Studies 22 3.1.1 Barriers in manufacturing 22 3.1.2 Barriers in construction 24 3.2 Categorization of EMS Implementation Barriers 25 3.2.1 Categorization of manufacturing barriers 26 3.2.2 Categorization of construction barriers 28 CHAPTER 4 EM PRACTICES AND METHODS 32 4.1 EM Practices 32 4.1.1 EM practices from manufacturing 32 4.1.2 EM practices from construction 34 4.1.3 Derivation of EMS practices from manufacturing and construction 35 4.2 Derived EMS Practices and Methods 36 4.2.1 Contents of the EMS practices 36 4.2.2 EM methods from case studies 41 CHAPTER 5 EMS IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTIONS 47 5.1 Possible Suggestions 47 5.1.1 Environmental performance metrics 48 5.1.2 EMS and financial, operational and social performance 50 5.2 EM Practices and Methods 54 5.2.1 EM practices addressing barriers 54 5.2.2 EM methods addressing barriers 57 5.3 EMS Case Studies 59 5.3.1 Lowell Wastewater Utility 59 5.3.2 Water Pollution Control Facility 63 5.3.3 EMS case studies and their methods 65 CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 67 6.1 Conclusions 67 6.2 Suggestions 70 REFERENCES 71

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