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Sustainability in Construction Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 April 2022) | Viewed by 7720

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Søren Wandahl

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Department of Engineering - Lean Construction, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Interests: lean construction; value creation and innovation in construction processes; planning of complex and constrained construction projects
Dr. Søren Munch Lindhard

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Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: application of quantitative methods; machine learning; statistics and stochastic simulations; construction and waste management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This call takes outset in the construction industry’s prevailing challenges, where the figures speak for themselves. Buildings are responsible for around 40% of the material consumption, 40% of the energy consumption and 36% of the CO2 emissions in Europe. At the same time, the industry is challenged by low productivity and is lacking in digitalization, automation and prefabrication. An increasing proportion of these numbers is related to the construction processes and the manufacturing and delivery of construction materials in terms of Embodied Energy. Consequently, today’s tacit acceptance of poor delivery performance with low productivity as well as time and cost overruns is effectively the same as the construction industry’s acceptance of unnecessarily large CO2 emissions. A full shift into a sustainable built environment requires all aspects of the building lifecycle to be sustainable, including the production planning and control processes. In this Special Issue on sustainable construction management, we welcome original research rooted in construction management and production planning and control that embraces sustainability. We would especially welcome contributions that manage to quantify construction management efforts (improvements in the delivery system) into sustainable impacts in terms of saved Embodied Energy.

Main subject areas within this call:

  • Sustainable production;
  • Reduction of resource and energy consumption in the construction process;
  • Innovative approaches to increase sustainability on-site;
  • Increased productivity and improved time and cost performance;

Prof. Dr. Søren Wandahl
Dr. Søren Munch Lindhard
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • production system
  • embodied energy, lean construction
  • construction management

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On Use of Construction Technology Designs for Expert Opinions
by Čeněk Jarský, Miloslava Popenková, Jozef Gašparík and Patrik Šťastný
Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 5672; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095672 - 7 May 2022
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This article describes the basic principles and results of an expert system for construction planning and management. In the field of expert opinions, the system greatly helps to determine the limit of unreasonably low construction prices on the basis of a rapid cost [...] Read more.
This article describes the basic principles and results of an expert system for construction planning and management. In the field of expert opinions, the system greatly helps to determine the limit of unreasonably low construction prices on the basis of a rapid cost analysis. Additionally, it can determine the technologically shortest possible construction periods or can answer the question of whether it is possible to complete the construction in the specified period, provided that a certain amount of construction is currently underway, which is very useful in expert opinions. The system is based on modeling the construction process using the so-called construction technology network graphs. This method allows, among other things, to create and use so-called typical network graphs as preprepared models of individual types of objects in the form of computer files, which can be modified according to the spatial structure of real buildings or facilities when used in creating a feasibility study or efficient time and financial planning and management of the building process. The system also enables the automatic creation of quality assurance checklists (inspection and acceptance plans for quality assurance), environmental plans (plans for the elimination of adverse effects of construction activities on the environment), and safety and health plans. Direct links to the bills of quantities (list of works and supplies with numbering of individual items), budgets (list of works and supplies with prices), or production calculations, despite the operational records of the actual construction process also on the company’s accounting agenda, are available. Full article
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On Risk Probability of Prefabricated Building Hoisting Construction Based on Multiple Correlations
by Peng Wan, Junwu Wang, Ye Liu, Qizhi Lu and Chunbao Yuan
Sustainability 2022, 14(8), 4430; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14084430 - 8 Apr 2022
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With growing concern about environmental pollution and occupational safety in construction industry globally, prefabricated building has become a popular building model in sustainable society. In China, management specifications of prefabricated buildings are far from mature, and safety accidents occur frequently in construction. In [...] Read more.
With growing concern about environmental pollution and occupational safety in construction industry globally, prefabricated building has become a popular building model in sustainable society. In China, management specifications of prefabricated buildings are far from mature, and safety accidents occur frequently in construction. In order to comprehensively analyze risks in hoisting construction of prefabricated buildings, this study, in view of characteristics of hoisting construction process and correlations in complex system, summarizes risk factors and classifies them according to Wuli-Shili-Renli (WSR) system. From perspective of multiple correlations, evolution mechanism of multi-system correlation and multi-risk correlation is carried out, so as to explore risk probability of hoisting construction of prefabricated buildings. At the same time, this study extends Two Additive Choquet Integral (TACI) operator and Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) in dynamic stochastic environment to construct a two-stage model for risk probability research of hoisting construction, hoping to profoundly reveal influence of risk factors and their dynamic evolution. The results show that: (1) risk probability presented a seasonal, dynamic change trend, which meant rising first, then falling, and finally keeping rising, thus regular inspection and dynamic monitoring are required in hoisting construction in these regions in the first three quarters. (2) the influence of each risk factor demonstrated dynamic changes, and risk sources that need to prevent and defuse at different time points are varied, thus targeted measures catering to different risk sources are required. (3) the degree of risk controllability is in dynamic change, but classification of cause or result in the region at the period remains the same, thus necessitating targeted response measures aimed at various risk types. (4) Individual risks like hoisting job climated break out periodically, so the law of risk occurrence should be mastered and relative precautionary measures should be taken in advance. Full article
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Decision Support Systems for Managing Construction Projects: A Scientific Evolution Analysis
by Kristina Galjanić, Ivan Marović and Nikša Jajac
Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 4977; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094977 - 21 Apr 2022
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The dynamic nature and increasing complexity of construction projects impose many challenges for project planning and control. For years, there has been a debate about the success of construction projects and how to achieve them. A bibliometric study was developed based on 750 [...] Read more.
The dynamic nature and increasing complexity of construction projects impose many challenges for project planning and control. For years, there has been a debate about the success of construction projects and how to achieve them. A bibliometric study was developed based on 750 scientific papers on project success, decision support system, optimization, and project performance. Data are collected from the Scopus and Web of Science databases and cover the period from January 2000 to February 2022. Several types of analysis were made—data information, research growth, most productive country, most productive institution, most relevant source, most influential authors, collaborations between countries, institutions, authors, most relevant or most cited publication, highest frequency, and keyword occurrence. It is pointed out which are the important authors and journals and in which direction further research should be directed. This paper identifies that construction is one of the least digitized industries in the world. There is a great need for more studies on the organizational changes necessary for digitization and how to evaluate and implement digital technologies to support business on the construction site. Full article
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