Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management: Enablers of Change, Part II

Dear Colleagues,

Concern about sustainability is becoming indispensable to delivering projects and making decisions across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. It is, therefore, incumbent upon all related fields such as construction management, project management, and engineering to recalibrate their working practices and redefine processes to comply with sustainability principles. Numerous opportunities are available for incorporating the concept of sustainability in the AEC industry. Projects can become sustainable in numerous ways. Sustainability can be integrated across the entire life cycle of a built asset, ranging all the way from mining of raw construction materials, components manufacturing, and procurement methods, to conceptualisation of projects, design, shipment, and transportation, assembly, commissioning, operations, maintenance, refurbishing; to eventual demolition and disposal. All these procedures can be enhanced through adopting sustainability enablers that facilitate change. Chief among all are smart technologies, advanced decision support systems, and ever-sophisticated efficient operational systems, which are designed for augmenting sustainability and making projects greener.

This proposed and pioneering ‘Special Issue’ aims to provide a platform for construction researchers who seek to showcase the emergent findings from their research not only on the roles various sustainability enablers, but also on how these enablers can disrupt the AEC industry’s ways of working. This Special Issue welcomes articles that offer novel insight into the challenges and opportunities for integrating these enablers into AEC projects, to advance the agenda of making projects sustainable in all facets. Both conceptual and technical papers and those focusing on specific operational or procedural solutions are encouraged. Submitted papers can be project-focused or may target organizations or industry at a strategic level, as their level of analysis. All pillars of sustainability comprising environmental, social, or economic considerations in AEC projects are welcome. Articles that explore decision support systems, theoretical aspects of multiple criteria modelling and optimization in crisp or uncertain environment or elaborate on the state-of-the-art case studies related to sustainable construction decision aiding, are appreciated.

Prof. Dr. Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
Prof. Dr. Jurgita Antucheviciene
Dr. M. Reza Hosseini
Dr. Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini
Guest Editors

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