*6.1. Outcome Discussion: What Are the Expected Outcomes of Successfully Using the SDG Measurement Mechanism?*

The results showed that participants have the appetite and resolve to employ SDG measurement at business and project levels (Finding #2) in order to achieve outcomes that benefit people, the planet and profit. At the same time, they were frustrated by their inability to do so for reasons discussed in the following sections. Most participants were optimistic that their organisation would achieve the broader outcomes by making SDG measurement more usable, consistent and verifiable across the construction sector, with increasing balance to their investment decisions across environment, economic and societal factors (Finding #1). There was almost unanimous conviction that the "ends" of achieving the desired "outcomes" was good for business (Finding #4).

Although the results emerged from a different thematic, some of the participants (2, 3, 17, 19, 20, 26 and 27) recognised the value of using Carol Weiss' seminal work [38–42] that uses the logframe and Theory of Change approach to take a stakeholder-centric perspective to assist the definition of

longer-term impacts and outcomes. They acknowledged that this helps rebalance from an overemphasis on output definition, which is typically used in project management and too often judges success in terms of delivering the infrastructure asset to time, cost and scope (Finding #6).

The findings from the research study allow evaluation of the propositions synthesised from the literature review as follows.

Proposition 2 was supported through inference from the analysis. Proposition 5 was supported.
