Risk Assessment of Knowledge Transfer in Green Building Based on ISM-MICMAC

Green buildings have made a significant contribution to low-carbon and energy-saving. However, green construction projects will face greater risks than traditional construction projects due to their high cost and complex technology. Having important information or knowledge can help the project organization to stifle the risk at the source. This paper intends to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge transfer by studying the risk assessment in the process of knowledge transfer between project organizations, thereby helping to reduce the risk of green building projects. This paper first explores the influencing factors of knowledge transfer and the interrelationship between the influencing factors by analyzing the existing literature; then uses ISM method and the MICMAC analysis method, to sort out the order and hierarchy of the influencing factors in knowledge transfer, and analyze at the same time their forces of driving and dependences. Then author proposes countermeasures to the risk of knowledge transfer between project organizations. The results show that the two types of risks, low network connection strength and lack of transfer mechanisms, have a greater impact on knowledge transfer, but they are easy to manage. Therefore, construction project managers should identify these factors first and take certain measures to avoid these risks.

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