Muller and Turner (2010) state that transactional leadership, which concerns more
on the process of the project, is said to be more suitable for relatively simple projects
while; transformational leadership, which concerns more on people, is suitable for
more demanding projects. This shows that for general construction projects the leaders
could focus on project activities and tasks to achieve a successful project. That
could mean addressing critical leadership functions in a construction project that
Toor et al. (2007) identify as manage several activities together, communicate with
various stakeholders at the same time, manage conflicts, take difficult and risky
decisions, deal with several socio-economic and cultural challenges, handle several
deadlines, control resources, solve disputes and finally achieve the project objectives.
However, it is noted that above leadership role that mainly focus on task
accomplishment would be insufficient in a demanding project such as a LEED
building project as described next.