A GROUP of professor and students from the Mapua University bagged a Certificate of Merit in the 28th World Congress on Engineering organized by the International Association of Engineers for presenting a paper on meta-analysis of risks in green building projects in the Philippines.

Dr. Dante Silva, program chair of the BS in Construction Engineering and Management, and students Ronissa Ann Gallardo, Jayrald Misiera, and Clarissa May Camposano were recognized for their paper titled, “Aggregation of Fuzzy Weights for Sustainable Buildings: Application of Multi-Criteria Extent Analysis and Geometric Mean Process Towards Risk Mitigation Management Schema.”

“Through risk management process, the paper identified risks present in green building projects through the Hierarchical Risk Breakdown Structure; and assessed the risk factors through the Analytical Hierarchy Method incorporating Fuzzy Logic Analytical Hierarchy Process,” the group said.

“The paper also developed mitigation strategies on targeted risk groups to eliminate risk probability and impact on a project and developed a risk management framework essential to green building projects that will help the construction industry (of any size) manage their risk holistically,” it added.

Silva said it is important to address and reduce “negative impacts.”

“The construction and operation phases of buildings in the country is accountable for global warming and climate change, and the increase of the general public’s environmental awareness has influenced the construction industry to design and build by green principles,” he said.

Although there have been several studies on green building projects and benefits, Silva explained that there are very few that address their risks and how they can be managed.

“The green building momentum is continuing to grow, thus establishing the appropriate standard of care is becoming more significant,” he said.