Construction Industry Focus Towards Sustainability Through Corporate Social Responsibility

Amidst the growing number of adverse impacts of construction industry, sustainability and sustainable development has become a ground-breaking challenge in the world in mitigating disasters related to build environment. Thus, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will be an effective tool to introduce resilience in disaster management practices of construction stakeholders on their business decisions taken within the construction industry. Hence, this study has focused to assessing the contractors’ contribution towards sustainability in relation to their CSR activities within their business environment and business process. The results revealed that there is a considerable gap in the prevailing practice and required practice in the areas of CSR related to business environment and CSR related to business process although CSR related to philanthropic activities in the industry was at a high level.