Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: supply chain management; healthcare management; waste management; scheduling; sustainability
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Interests: deep reinforcement learning; modelling and optimization; supply chain scheduling; metaheuristics; dynamic job scheduling
Interests: operations research; optimization; simulation modeling; metaheuristics; supply chain management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is a key research area focused on achieving a balance between economic, environmental, and social factors for supply chain networks. One significant application of SSCM is in the construction industry, which involves costly projects, products, and supply chains in both developed and developing countries worldwide. SSCM within construction projects and supply chains involves a range of complex decision-making challenges, including facility location, production scheduling, network design, inventory management, capacity planning, supply and delivery channels, transportation modes, and routing activities.
This Special Issue aims to present efficient and practical optimization models and decision-making frameworks for assessing various sustainability criteria in construction supply chains. Economic criteria may include total cost, profit, makespan, and revenue management; environmental criteria might consider transportation-related carbon emissions, facility location impacts, and energy-efficient machine usage, while social criteria could address job creation, workplace safety, customer satisfaction, and other aspects of social development for workers and communities. To support and implement these sustainability criteria effectively, there is a need for extensive research using optimization models and decision-making approaches in construction projects and supply chains.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Sustainable supply chain management in the construction industry.
- Multi-objective optimization models and algorithms for the construction
- Large-scale combinatorial optimization in construction
- Flexibility, resilience, and reliability analysis in the construction
- Production scheduling in the construction industry.
- Supply and delivery channel optimization in the construction industry.
- Risk management in construction supply chains.
- Sustainable consumption and energy-saving strategies in the construction industry.
- Sustainable construction and resilient built infrastructure.
Prospective authors are encouraged to follow the submission guidelines on the Buildings website to submit their latest, original, and innovative research to this Special Issue by the submission deadline. Please select “Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry” as the article type on the website to ensure that your submission is considered for this Special Issue.
Dr. Amir Mohammad Fathollahi-Fard
Dr. Min Kong
Dr. Maxim A. Dulebenets
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- sustainable supply chain management (SSCM)
- construction industry
- multi-objective optimization
- decision-making models
- economic sustainability
- circular economy
- environmental sustainability
- social sustainability
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