Communicating Environmental Work A case study of challenges related to communicating and integrating Environmental Work in a construction company
2018
The threat about climate changes is one of the most severe environmental issues
mankind has ever had to deal with (Naturvardsverket, 2018) and it aects everything
and everyone in one way or another. A big villain is the construction
industry, which 2014 stood for 19 % of the total greenhouse gas emissions in Sweden
(Lundgren, 2017). However, changes are being done in order to build more
environmental friendly and one important part of this change is for construction
companies to involve all employees and thereby realize the importance of the human
employed by the company as the main resource (Chawla et al., 2018).
This thesis aims to investigate how the Environmental Work is communicated and
what information is given, within an infrastructure district of a large construction
company in Sweden. This in order to help improve the environmental performance
by identifying challenges and how these can be overcome in order to obtain the
environmental engagement the company is aiming for.
It was concluded that more information and knowledge must be mediated in order
to increase the consciousness and involvement among the employees. Today there
are a rather few communication ways down to the construction sites with a limited
amount of information. To increase the knowledge, the investigated district must
review how they can communicate the Environmental Work to reach as many as
possible and what kind of information being communicated. This thesis highlights
an environmental representative and more interactions, possibly made by adapt a
sustainable framework where communication and feedback is vital, as important
prerequisites and possible solutions for the investigated district.
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