To achieve “green” status and get the LEED certification, planning must begin
from the inception stage of a building project. A building project is a team effort
(Senaratne and Hapuarachchi, 2009). The project team could be considered as a
temporary organization of individuals or organizations that have various individual
interests and inspirations. Despite these individual interests in a green building
project, the project team should work collaboratively towards a common goal to
achieve “green” status. This may require a different leadership approach from an
ordinary construction project. Hence, the key research question formulated for this
research study was: