Mahmud, Bello Zailani (2025) Equity-driven workforce development initiatives through long-term strategic partnerships for the construction and maintenance of green stormwater infrastructure. DEng thesis, Morgan State University (Maryland), USA.
Abstract
As the demand for green stormwater infrastructure increases due to regulatory mandates, devising novel strategies that enable sustainable construction and maintenance of the requisite assets becomes paramount. A major limitation, as identified in the existing literature, is the limited workforce and lack of active community participation in the project delivery process, which impedes their long-term sustainability. This dissertation addressed this gap by conducting three studies presented as independent chapters in addition to an extensive literature review. Adopting a triangular methodological approach, the studies collectively provide insights into the success, challenges, and opportunities of a novel community-based public-private partnership model for green stormwater infrastructure construction and maintenance. The findings show that adopting a dynamic organizational structure, defining equity-driven objectives, and adopting flexible management mechanisms improves the performance of projects. In addition, establishing mentoring programs to develop the capacity of local contractors presents the opportunity to grow the requisite workforce that would ensure the long-term functionality of installed assets. In the long term, green infrastructure implementation derived associated tipple bottom-line benefits, including urban heat reduction, improved air quality, and provision of green job opportunities. Overall, this dissertation contributes to theory and practice by setting the precedence for academic efforts that empirically assess the novel community-based public-private partnership model for green stormwater infrastructure implementation, particularly adopting equity-driven strategies to build the requisite workforce for the construction and maintenance of assets. It is recommended that future studies build on the limitations of these studies to proffer more valuable perspectives and empirical assessments of the novel model.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Hunter, James G |
| Index terms: | community participation, literature review, functionality, strategy, organizational structure, sustainable construction, mandate, community-based, mentoring, local contractor, infrastructure construction, workforce development, stormwater, program, green infrastructure, partnership, project delivery, future study, implementation, dissertation, management mechanism, air quality |
| Subjects: | sustainability and resilience, participation process, data analysis and analytics, project delivery, research design and methodology, partnership management, sociology, political science, environmental engineering, management, software systems, civil engineering, professional development, training, design features, contractual arrangements, research dissemination and communication, climate science, practitioner, communities and social development, sustainable construction |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Business Strategy, Governance, Roles and Professions, Stakeholder Management, Human Resources, Design Practice, Digital Applications, Urban Studies, Organizational Design, Engineering Principles, Procurement, Sustainability, Education |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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