The demand for green development around the world has intensified in the past few years, particularly in relation to environmental health and safety. Governments, institutions, and private construction sectors have adopted green building development as their ethical responsibility in developed countries. Although construction is one of the principal industries in Libya, priority has not been given to green building issues, due to the lack of satisfactory awareness. The study aims to resolve this deficiency of knowledge and awareness related to the impact of green building in Libya, seeking to determine the reasons why Libya lacks sustainable construction and green building methods, thereby removing the barriers for sustainable building in Libya. During the study, a mixed research approach was adopted with outcomes that will be beneficial to both researchers and construction engineers within the region. Data was collected using a questionnaire and analyzed in SPSS statistical computer program. Research findings have been shown that there is an unsatisfactory level of expertise in green construction in Libya. Findings indicated that poor implementation of green buildings in many current construction projects. Results also demonstrated that current encouragements are not sufficiently effective at promoting green construction in Libya; consequently, many construction firms are reluctant to participate in the green building market. Moreover, outcomes explaining the lack of green buildings in Libya include Price, unavailability, products, a supply of green materials, and ignorance about green buildings. Similar research which has been carried out in Singapore indicated that workers' experience, available technology, planning were the most critical factors affecting green building construction projects. Our research results underlined that government incentives and desirable subsidies, such as structural incentives, rebate programs, or voluntary rating systems, tax incentive schemes, low-interest mortgages loans, market and technology aid, improvement of workers' experience could eliminate many barriers and motivate green building development in Libya. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.
