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conserving energy and using the environmentally friendly design. Green construction can also be applied by involving K3 officer in construction,
beautifying the project site by planting trees around it, maintaining the cleanliness and making a small garden around the project; and holding meetings to discuss
this issue in the morning with the whole communityproject workers. The other measures which can be used for green construction application included the
planting of some trees and by being more disciplined with the work so that it can become ecological friendly, as well as by not destroying the environment by
managing the waste well and reducing pollution were among the measures taken by their company.
4.4 Application of Green Construction
In this section, fifteen questions, from whether green construction is expensive to the incentives being offered for green development, were asked to
evaluate the application of green construction within each company. The results are as follows:
4.4.1 The Cost of Green Construction
Respondents were asked whether green construction is expensive. This is to know whether the contractors viewed green construction as prohibitively
costly. There were mixed answers between those who thought green construction was expensive because they have to increase construction costs beyond their
usual budget, etc. and those who said that green construction actually reduces costs as it minimizes waste and uses recycled product, etc.. The responses
representing each of the companies are shown in the next table.
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Table 4.10 Cost of Green Construction
Company Response
Wijaya Karya The majority of the respondents said that green construction is
expensive, as building green means hiring new people with expertise in green building and putting in new investment to start it.
One of them, however, said that green construction actually reduces costs as it minimizes waste and uses recycled product.
Pembangunan Perumahan
The respondents gave different answers. The ones who said that green construction is expensive argued that by building green new
investments are needed to get the equipments which are not noisy and so on. The one who said that green construction is not
expensive argued that green principles can easily be applied by everyone in the project, while one respondent said that although
green construction might be quite expensive at the beginning, the costs will go down eventually because every material and
equipment can be reused.
Hutama Karya
Two of the respondents believed that green construction is expensive, as they need to adjust to the new method. The others,
however, said that green construction is cost effective and can even make a company more efficient after everyone in the organization
become familiar with the concept and change their old habits.
Waskita Karya The respondents gave different answers. Those who said that green
construction is expensive thought so because the material used in green construction is not common, thus it might affect cash flow in
a project and the company’s income. Others, however, believed that green construction is not expensive because green building is
necessary to maintain the natural balance and has many benefits and because in Indonesia, plants are cheap and the soil is fertile,
thus creating and maintaining greenery is not that difficult. One respondent said that the cost of green construction depends on the
method and situation in the field.
Adi Karya The respondents gave different answers. Those who thought that
green construction is expensive said so because they have to increase construction costs beyond their usual budget as the
contractors usually did not allocate a budget for it in the tender. Other respondents said that green costs depend on the situation.
The respondents gave different answers. Some considered green construction as expensive, as building green means hiring new people with
expertise in green building and putting in new investment to start it and because
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contractors usually did not allocate a budget for it in the tender. The other arguments were that by building green new investments are needed to get the
equipments which are not noisy and so on, and the need also to adjust to the new method as the material used in green construction is also not common, thus it
might affect cash flow in a project and the company’s income. Some, however, believed that green construction is not expensive because
green principles can easily be applied by everyone in the project. Green building is necessary to maintain the natural balance and has many benefits. In Indonesia,
plants are cheap and the soil is fertile, thus creating and maintaining greenery is not that difficult. Green construction is cost effective and can even make a
company more efficient after everyone in the organization become familiar with the concept and change their old habits. Another argument was that green
construction can even actually reduce costs as it minimizes waste and uses recycled product.
One respondent said that although green construction might be quite expensive at the beginning, the costs will go down eventually because every
material and equipment can be reused, while the others said that the cost of green construction depends on the method and situation in the field.
4.4.2 Existence of Standard Operating Procedure in the Company to
