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Project Management for Sustainable Construction

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 12852

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Prof. Dr. Pramen P. Shrestha

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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Department, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
Interests: contract and procurement; project delivery methods; infrastructure sustainability; construction project management; construction safety; highway safety; asset management
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Dear Colleagues,

The use of sustainable construction practices is critical to reduce adverse impacts on climate change and environmental degradation. The construction, operation, and demolition of building and infrastructure projects has contributed to air, noise, and water pollution, and has generated landfill waste. In the last decade, construction project participants (owners, designers, contractors, and facility managers) have been developing sustainable construction management practices to decrease the level of this pollution to make the Earth more livable. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the regulatory, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and demolition management practices that have been used by project participants in order to reduce their impact on climate change.

This Special Issue focuses on the various project management practices used by the project participants throughout the life-cycles of construction projects to make them environmentally sustainable. This includes practices used to increase sustainability that are related to environmental rules and regulations, planning, project delivery selection, contract procurement, design management, construction, operation, maintenance, and demolition. In addition, the construction materials and methods used to make building and infrastructure projects more sustainable will be addressed in this Special Issue. This Issue will also focus on dispute resolution and claim management practices related to sustainable construction. The main purpose of this Issue is to provide a body of knowledge related to sustainable construction management practices to owners, designers, contractors, and facility managers.

Prof. Dr. Pramen P. Shrestha
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable construction
  • sustainable materials
  • sustainable project delivery methods
  • sustainable procurement methods
  • dispute resolution processes in sustainable construction
  • green buildings

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Impact of Highway Construction on Internal Migration: A Korea Perspective
by Hyun-Woo Kim and Du-Heon Lee
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14477; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su142114477 - 04 Nov 2022
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Transportation facilities in the classical migration model expand the scale of population movement by reducing the physical distance and costs of travel between regions. This study empirically analyzes the effect of population inflow into a region near a highway construction using a migration [...] Read more.
Transportation facilities in the classical migration model expand the scale of population movement by reducing the physical distance and costs of travel between regions. This study empirically analyzes the effect of population inflow into a region near a highway construction using a migration model. The purpose was to examine whether large-scale transportation infrastructure such as highways contributes to the growth and balanced development of the connected regions. Four metropolitan transport-type and commuter transport-type highway routes constructed in South Korea after 2000 were used as study subjects. The results show that population inflow occurred in the region where commuter transport-type highways were constructed. However, no effect was observed in regions where metropolitan transport-type highways were constructed. The reason for these unique results is that factors affecting migration include not only transit facilities, but also parameters such as economic factors, housing, and amenities. Moreover, the findings show that the impact of population inflow is affected by the geographical characteristics of the highway construction areas and city size. Full article
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Experimental Evaluation of Fire Resistance Limits for Steel Constructions with Fire-Retardant Coatings at Various Fire Conditions
by Tatiana Eremina, Dmitry Korolchenko and Denis Minaylov
Sustainability 2022, 14(4), 1962; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14041962 - 09 Feb 2022
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The experimental evaluation of fire resistance limits for steel constructions with fire-retardant coatings consists of a lot of experiments on the heating of steel structures of buildings by solving a heat engineering problem at various fire conditions. Building design implies the assessment of [...] Read more.
The experimental evaluation of fire resistance limits for steel constructions with fire-retardant coatings consists of a lot of experiments on the heating of steel structures of buildings by solving a heat engineering problem at various fire conditions. Building design implies the assessment of compliance of actual fire resistance limits for steel constructions with the required limits. Fire resistance limits for steel constructions are determined for “standard” temperature mode, and this can lead to overestimated fire resistance and underestimated heat influence for a real fire. Estimation of the convergence for “standard” temperature mode and possible “real” fire mode, as well as of the compliance of actual fire resistance limits with real fire conditions, was realized in the following stages: mathematical modeling of real fire development by the field model in software package Fire Dynamics Simulation (FDS) with various fire loads and mathematical modeling of steel construction heating for the standard temperature mode obtained by modeling “real” fire modes (the finite difference method of solving the Fourier heat conduction equation at external and internal nonlinearities was used for modeling the process of steel structure heating with the implementation in the ANSYS mechanical software package). Experiments of the assessment of fire-protective paint’s effectiveness were carried out for standard temperature mode and obtained by modeling “real” fire modes. The equivalent fire duration dependence on fire load type was determined. This dependence can be taken into account in determination of fire resistance limits for steel constructions in warehouse building roofing. Fire-protective paint effectiveness was estimated for “standard” temperature mode and various other temperature modes. Full article
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Construction Disputes and Associated Contractual Knowledge Discovery Using Unstructured Text-Heavy Data: Legal Cases in the United Kingdom
by JeeHee Lee, Youngjib Ham and June-Seong Yi
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9403; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13169403 - 21 Aug 2021
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Construction disputes are one of the main challenges to successful construction projects. Most construction parties experience claims—and even worse, disputes—which are costly and time-consuming to resolve. Lessons learned from past failure cases can help reduce potential future risk factors that likely lead to [...] Read more.
Construction disputes are one of the main challenges to successful construction projects. Most construction parties experience claims—and even worse, disputes—which are costly and time-consuming to resolve. Lessons learned from past failure cases can help reduce potential future risk factors that likely lead to disputes. In particular, case law, which has been accumulated from the past, is valuable information, providing useful insights to prepare for future disputes. However, few efforts have been made to discover legal knowledge using a large scale of case laws in the construction field. The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of the multifaceted legal issues surrounding construction adjudication using large amounts of accumulated construction legal cases. This goal is achieved by exploring dispute-related contract terms and conditions that affect judicial decisions based on their verdicts. This study builds on text mining methods to examine what type of contract conditions are frequently referenced in the final decision of each dispute. Various text mining techniques are leveraged for knowledge discovery (i.e., analyzing frequent terms, discovering pairwise correlations, and identifying potential topics) in text-heavy data. The findings show that (1) similar patterns of disputes have occurred repeatedly in construction-related legal cases and (2) the discovered dispute topics indicate that mutually agreed upon contract terms and conditions are import in dispute resolution. Full article
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Developing and Applying a Model for Evaluating Risks Affecting Greening Existing Buildings
by Usama Issa, Ibrahim Sharaky, Mamdooh Alwetaishi, Ashraf Balabel, Amal Shamseldin, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Mohammed Al-Surf, Mosleh Al-Harthi and Medhat M. A. Osman
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6403; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13116403 - 04 Jun 2021
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Improving building performance through reducing negative environmental impacts can be achieved by greening existing buildings (GEB), which is considered a very important sustainability process. Due to the risky and uncertain nature of the process of GEB, a growing amount of attention should be [...] Read more.
Improving building performance through reducing negative environmental impacts can be achieved by greening existing buildings (GEB), which is considered a very important sustainability process. Due to the risky and uncertain nature of the process of GEB, a growing amount of attention should be given to eliminating the effects of risks on GEB. This research aims to identify most expected risk factors related to GEB, as well as to evaluate their effects through calculating risk factor characteristics, such as risk factor presence (RFP), impact on the GEB process (IGEB), and impact on building performance in the long run (IBP), as new indices describe these risks. Sixty-six risk factors were categorized in seven risk groups related to the economic aspect, social aspect, environmental aspect, managerial aspect, sustainability operation, sustainable design, and renovation. Moreover, a fuzzy model for risk analysis was developed to combine the multi-effects of the aforementioned three risk factor characteristics in one index representing the risk factors’ overall importance. The model was applied and verified for data collected in Saudi Arabia. The results of this study showed that the most important risk group is the greening process of environmental control, while the least important is the greening process of renovation and construction. Using the proposed model improved the results of evaluating risks affecting GEB through merging the multi-effects of risk factor characteristics. The results and analysis proved that the most important key risk factors were environmental in nature. An intricate relationship of the impacts on the GEB process and building performance with the overall importance of the risk factors was clearly found. The decision makers who deal with greening projects in Saudi Arabia should be aware of the key risks identified in this study. The proposed methodology and model can be easily applied to other countries to help decision makers in evaluating their GEB projects, as well as comparing more greening projects based on risk analysis. Full article
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