Sustainable supply chain management in construction firms

Environmental change is happening everywhere. Turbulent weather patterns - heat waves, rains, snowfalls, hurricanes and stormy rains are becoming extreme in every sense throughout the world. These climatic changes are today a concern of every individual and world leader alike. The burning of oil and other fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, which rises, blankets the earth and traps heat causing severe changes in weather patterns. Not only do we have climate problems but we are also dealing with a resource depletion issue. The construction industry has a major impact on the environment because 50% of the material resources for construction are taken from nature. The huge consumption of resources by the construction industry has called for sustainable practices in construction. Sustainable supply chain provides economic, social and environmental requirements in material and service flows occurring between suppliers, manufacturers and customers. Sustainable development has taken the centre stage among different countries of the world. During the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, the governments and other international organizations decided to take useful measures to protect the environment for long term social and economic development. This paper aims at investigating the compliance of the construction industry to environmental regulations. In this paper, the construction industry of Lagos state in Nigeria was used as a case study