Green Construction Management Practices for a Sustainable Built Environment Future

Dear Colleagues, 

Buildings and infrastructure are the key for the development of any city, region, or country. Due to massive resource and energy consumption, their sustainability and green performance are often criticized. In the past decade, with the introduction of the green concept, there has been a plethora of research on facilitating sustainable benefits in green buildings. Despite the existing advances in sustainability tools and methods, there has been no systematic all-encompassing studies on the sustainability of building and infrastructure. Sustainability is often misunderstood as only considering environmental benefits while neglecting other aspects such as durability requirements, economic and social benefits, local availability, and life-cycle management requirements. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic implications, health, safety, and wellbeing in green buildings throughout their lifecycle have become other critical aspects worthy of further investigation. 

This Special Issue aims to contribute to the outstanding collection of research, reviews, designs, and technical papers on sustainable construction management aspects of green built environments. The key focus areas of the Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

• Sustainability aspects of green building materials;
• Procurement of sustainable construction services;
• Durability characteristics of sustainable green construction projects;
• Sustainable performance of green construction projects;
• Prefabricated technology for sustainable green construction projects;
• Sustainable performance simulation tools;
• Sustainable management of green assets using smart technologies;
• Waste management and minimisation;
• Construction ecology—lessons from nature;
• Health, safety, and wellbeing improvements in sustainable and green construction projects;
• Barriers inhibiting sustainable construction;
• Sustainability and its financial impact;
• Sustainability transitions;
• Risk governance;
• Supporting decision making.

Dr. Malindu Sandanayake
Dr. Zora Vrcelj
Guest Editors

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