Towards Sustainable Construction: Construction Management and Project Planning/Controls

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable Construction is the practice of constructing buildings and infrastructure projects that are material and energy efficient to minimize their environmental impact while reducing costs and improving the triple bottom line: economic, social and environmental. Sustainable Construction is a rewarding yet challenging field that requires effective sustainability-specific construction project management techniques. The current literature, on sustainability-specific construction management practices and their applications in real-life construction projects, is still very limited. Key players in the construction industry - owners, consultants, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers – are also experiencing varying degrees of resistance to updating the traditional construction project management practices. Despite the huge awareness raised over the past years to move towards sustainable construction, their success rate is still highly impeded, as the construction industry often fails to adjust the traditional management practices to meet the needs of sustainable construction. Indeed, improving conventional construction project management practices will help overcome the challenges of sustainable construction and prepare for the multidisciplinary, highly integrated and digitalized nature of sustainable construction projects. Thus, greening construction project management practices and project planning/controls are extremely significant to increase the success potential of sustainable construction.

This Special Issue entitled “Towards Sustainable Construction: Construction Management and Project Planning/Controls” aims to add to the body of knowledge and shed the light on the challenges, best practices, technologies, cutting-edge tools and future directions that the research community should focus on to emphasize the move towards sustainable construction project management.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Sustainable Construction Project Planning and Scheduling
• Risk Management in Sustainable Construction Projects
• Procurement and Contract Strategies in Sustainable Construction
• Stakeholder Management in Sustainable Construction
• Delay Analysis in Sustainable Construction Projects
• Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Sustainable Construction Projects
• Digitalization and Sustainable Construction Management
• Contract Claims and Dispute Resolution in Sustainable Construction Projects
• Communication and Co-ordination in Sustainable Construction Projects
• Supply Chain Management in Sustainable Construction
• Safety Management in Sustainable Construction
• Benefits, Challenges and Barriers of Sustainable Construction
• Lifecycle Cost Analysis
• Construction Automation

I look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Prof. Dr. Sameh M. El-Sayegh
Guest Editor

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