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研究生： 陸念雅
Lu, Hannah
論文名稱： 營造公司CSR報告中指標之永續績效與關係
Sustainable Performance and Relationships between Indicators in CSR reports of Construction Companies
指導教授： 張行道
Chang, Andrew
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： 2015
畢業學年度： 103
語文別： 英文
論文頁數： 125
外文關鍵詞： Sustainable performance, sustainability indicators, Global Reporting Initiative, construction companies
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    • Sustainable development has become an important topic in the world. It is essential for a company to know if its activities and performance are sustainable. Sustainability indicators are used to measure the sustainability of a company’s performance.
    The purpose of this study is to find the relationships between environmental, economic and social indicators in the CSR reports of three years of eight construction-related companies based on the GRI guidelines, and derive which companies are more sustainable. CSR reports were analyzed to evaluate the sustainable performance of four contractors, two developers and two suppliers. Relevant activities or measures performed in the companies were reviewed to explain their sustainable performance.
    The results indicate that the average disclosure rate are 62%, 82% and 62% in the environmental, economic and social category, respectively. Concerning the relationships between indicators, EN3 (energy consumption) is positively related to EN8 (total water withdrawal) with a correlation of 0.76. EC1 (direct economic value generated) is positively related to EN16 (total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions) with a correlation of 0.88, meaning more projects generate more emissions. EN28 (monetary sanctions for noncompliance with environmental laws) has a strong positive relationship with all indicators analyzed.
    A comparison was made between the contractors, developers and suppliers, and one contractor has the best sustainable performance.

    AKNOWLEDGEMENTS i ABSTRACT ii TABLE OF CONTENTS iii LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF FIGURES vii CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Research Motivation 2 1.2 Research Objectives 3 1.3 Research Method and Process 3 1.4 Research scope and limitation 5 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1 Sustainable Performance 6 2.1.1 Sustainability assessment tools 7 2.1.2 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 8 2.2 Corporate Social Responsibility Reports 12 2.2.1 Indicators disclosed in CSR reports 13 2.2.2 Why CSR report disclosure 15 CHAPTER 3 INDICATORS DISCLOSED by CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES 17 3.1 Construction Company’s CSR Reports 17 3.1.1 Company information 17 3.1.2 Length of reports 21 3.1.3 Numbers of indicators disclosed in the reports 22 3.2 Common Indicators Disclosed 26 3.2.1 Environmental indicators 26 3.2.2 Economic indicators 28 3.2.3 Social indicators 29 CHAPTER 4 SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE 31 4.1 Seven Indicators and their values 31 4.2 Environmental Performance 34 4.2.1 Environmental performance of contractors 35 4.2.2 Environmental performance of developers 40 4.2.3 Environmental performance of suppliers 44 4.3 Economic Performance 48 4.3.1 Economic performance of contractors 49 4.3.2 Economic performance of developers 50 4.3.3 Economic performance of suppliers 50 4.4 Social Performance 51 4.4.1 Social performance of contractors 51 4.4.2 Social performance of developers 52 4.4.3 Social performance of suppliers 52 CHAPTER 5 RELATIONSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON BETWEEN INDICATORS 54 5.1 Relationships between Seven Indicators 54 5.1.1 Correlation calculation 55 5.1.2 Relationships between environmental indicators 60 5.1.3 Relationships between environmental with economic and social indicators 63 5.2 Sustainable Performance of Companies 66 5.2.1 Performance by type of company 67 5.2.2 Overall Sustainable Performances 73 CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 77 6.1 Conclusions 77 6.2 Research contribution 79 6.3 Suggestions 80 REFERENCES 81 APPENDIX A CORRELATIONS BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS PER YEAR 87 APPENDIX B CORRELATIONS BETWEEN INDICATORS FOR THREE YEARS 105

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