Coordination of Prefabricated Construction Supply Chain under Cap-and-Trade Policy Considering Consumer Environmental Awareness

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is an interesting manuscript which is well structured and clearly written.

Although the English language used in the article is not bad, a revision would be advisable because the manuscript is difficult to follow.

Check the quality of the figures because it is very difficult to read the text from them.

Fig. 2 and 3 from page 12 should be Fig. 4 and 5.

At the pages 11 - 13 there are some error messages: “Error! Reference source not found.”

Conclusions should be rewritten to clearly highlight the main findings of the paper.

From these reasons, I think that this manuscript, after a minor revision, could be accepted to be published by the Sustainability Journal.

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Reviewer 2 Report

1. Please polish the Abstract. Please check the logic of abstract. Please add sentences to explain the main points, the improvement and the promising application of the study. Both the present and past tenses are used to declare the similar content. Please make them in accordance.
2. The last two paragraphs in Introduction should combined into one and just declare the main study. Please correct it.
3. In Section 2.3, PCSC has been explained in Section 1, and then the full name should be replaced by PCSC. Please correct the similar problems in the whole manuscript.
4. Equations in Section 4 should be numbered. Please correct the similar problems in the whole manuscript.
5. Please check the reference errors in the whole manuscript.
6. Please revise the conclusion. It should just declare the major findings with simple and accurate sentences. The current version should be shortened.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

1. Abstract

1.1. The abstract is too long. The excerpt "Global warming is caused by excessive carbon dioxide, while construction industry accounts for over 1/3 of the volume, so it is essential to be curbed. Prefabricated buildings have superior strengths, such as waste reduction and high efficiency, which wins promotion from countries worldwide" could be suppressed for presenting information that is common knowledge. This would open space for the methodology and objective to be presented. Note that the objective must reflect the content of the work, which is currently not the case.

2. Introduction

2.1. Lines 73 to 89 – The content does not reflect the objectives of the work but the problem to be solved in the form of research questions.

2.2. Line 80 – This is a very generic objective to represent the many important contributions that this work provides.

3. Body part of the paper

The authors demonstrate an adequate understanding of the relevant literature in the field and cite an appropriate range of literature sources. The paper's argument is built on an appropriate base of theory and concepts. The methods employed are appropriate.

3.1. Authors should exclude the year from the references. Example: Benjaafar et al. (2013)[11] - Benjaafar et al. [11]. Also, reference errors need to be fixed—for example, Line 450.

3.2. Table 1 - What is the meaning of Superscripts and Subscripts? Note that there is a formal definition in dictionaries. How were parameters and decision variables selected? On what basis?

3.3. Lines 466 and 509 – Graphics are unreadable; it needs to be expanded.

3.4. A more detailed description of how the authors expect this work to impact stakeholders might improve the discussion significantly.

4. Conclusions

4.1. The Abstract contains the main elements: it contextualizes the research and presents the main findings, limitations, and recommendations for future work.

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

 Please check the reference problem in Line 468

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Reviewer 3 Report

Reviewer Comments to Author

Dear authors,

Thank you for addressing my comments.

With kind regards,

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