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Impact of Risk on Sustainability of Building and Infrastructure Projects

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 7360

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ahmed W. A. Hammad

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School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Interests: sustainability; risk management; mathematical modelling; building information modelling (BIM); digital engineering
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Prof. Dr. Assed Naked Haddad

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Escola Politécnica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, CT-Bloco D, Sala 207, Rio de Janeiro 21941-909, Brazil
Interests: sustainable construction; risk management; smart buildings; comfortable buildings; building information modeling (BIM); life cycle sustainability assessment; environmental impacts; energy efficiency
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Dr. Diego A. Vasco

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Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago de Chile 9170020, Chile
Interests: building energy efficiency; building materials characterization; thermal storage; thermal envelope optimization; computational fluid dynamics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue originated from the increased concern associated with the recent pandemic climate worldwide and its impacts and risks on the sustainability of projects in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. The overall focus of this Special Issue is on methodologies and approaches to account for foreseeable and unforeseeable risk, and how it impacts sustainability decisions related to the design, operation, and management of building and infrastructure projects. The Special Issue will also examine the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN)and the various risks that impact the ability of AEC organizations to satisfy the SDGs.

The issue ties with the existing literature as follows:

  • The issue will expand knowledge on sustainability by contributing studies that examine the behavior of risks to sustainable decision making in construction and infrastructure projects
  • Examining the challenges and barriers associated with risk management for sustainable construction and infrastructure projects
  • Proposing novel approaches for managing economic, social, and environmental risks associated with construction and infrastructure projects

Contributions are welcome from academics, practitioners, and students from any discipline or country, reflecting the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and international nature of sustainability. Some of the issues include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Risk management methods for sustainable project management
  • Risks associated with achieving sustainable designs
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN)
  • Economic risks in construction and infrastructure projects
  • Social risks in construction and infrastructure projects
  • Environmental risks in construction and infrastructure projects
  • Digital risk management
  • Risks to social procurement in construction

Dr. Ahmed WA Hammad
Dr. Assed N. Haddad
Dr. Diego A. Vasco
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable risk management
  • social risks
  • environmental risks
  • economic risks
  • UN SDGs
  • risk engineering
  • sustainable design
  • infrastructure risk management

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Framework for Assessing Urban Energy Sustainability
by Assed Haddad, Ahmed Hammad, Danielle Castro, Diego Vasco and Carlos Alberto Pereira Soares
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9306; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13169306 - 19 Aug 2021
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The social, economic, and environmental impacts associated with fuels used to power cities cause the sustainability of energy produced and consumed in our urban environment to be constantly challenged. In order to address the issue of urban energy sustainability, we propose a Framework [...] Read more.
The social, economic, and environmental impacts associated with fuels used to power cities cause the sustainability of energy produced and consumed in our urban environment to be constantly challenged. In order to address the issue of urban energy sustainability, we propose a Framework for Assessing Urban Energy Sustainability (FAUES), whose main approach relies on defining a method for determining critical indices associated with the major criteria of sustainable energy generation and consumption. The framework is based on developing a three-step process that integrates historical data regarding energy consumption and production and forecasted parameters on energy sustainability and can be used both in urban energy operations and in planning new urban settlements. The framework was implemented in Brazil as a representative case study, given that its cities lack social inclusion, economic stability, and environmental protection when it comes to energy. The framework functions so that policy makers and managers can assess the sustainability of energy produced and consumed in urban environments on the basis of relevant criteria for the city in which the energy is being evaluated. Full article
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CBA-Based Evaluation Method of the Impact of Defects in Residential Buildings: Assessing Risks towards Making Sustainable Decisions on Continuous Improvement Activities
by Raphael N. Milion, Thaís da C. L. Alves, José Carlos Paliari and Luisa H. B. Liboni
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6597; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13126597 - 09 Jun 2021
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Evaluating the impact of defects in buildings and ranking the most impactful ones enables construction companies to better choose which paths to take in light of continuous improvement activities to support more sustainable decisions regarding the design and operation of buildings. As a [...] Read more.
Evaluating the impact of defects in buildings and ranking the most impactful ones enables construction companies to better choose which paths to take in light of continuous improvement activities to support more sustainable decisions regarding the design and operation of buildings. As a result, the risks of the different choices are more clearly identified while assessing all tangible and intangible aspects of residential building defects in a structured way. Although recent studies on managing construction defects in residential buildings have focused on monetary losses associated with maintenance activities based on the defect’s frequency and severity, these studies do not take into account the levels of customer satisfaction. To address this gap, this paper proposes a novel evaluation method of the impact of defects to support decision-making in managing defect occurrences in residential buildings. The goal is to rank the defects’ impact based on a combination of some critical aspects: frequency of occurrence, financial considerations on repairing such defects, the impact that these defects have on customer satisfaction, and the cost and complexity of preventing and minimizing these defect occurrences through continuous improvement activities. The method consists of a structured set of steps that use data from technical assistance departments and customer satisfaction surveys, where information about the users’ level of satisfaction and the occurrence of defects is available. In this paper, data obtained from a construction company were used to test and validate the proposed method. The method also examines the challenges and barriers associated with the technique and points out that difficulties in acquiring reliable data are a bottleneck for making conscious and sustainable decisions to address construciton defects. Moreover, the case study results highlight essential capabilities needed by companies to correctly assess the impact of defects, such as correctly logging data in a structured database and having skilled personnel to verify defects users might have complained about. The paper ends by proposing a set of guidelines to use the method and stressing that structured methods for decision-making are crucial to analyze construction defects in a structured way while also incorporating the user’s perspective. The proposed method is expected to improve sustainable managerial decisions where economic, environmental, social, and technical risks can be accounted for to enhance the quality of projects from the customer’s perspective. Such analysis can help optimize and prioritize the use of resources and minimize the economic impact of activities on the construction company. Full article
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Analysis of Social and Environmental Impact of Earth-Rock Dam Breaks Based on a Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method
by Hao Gu, Xiao Fu, Yantao Zhu, Yijun Chen and Lixian Huang
Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 6239; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12156239 - 03 Aug 2020
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A large proportion of the dams in China are earth-rock dams. Regarding the well-studied loss of life and economic consequences due to dam breaks, this paper introduces the causes and modes of earth-rock dam breaks and the corresponding dam-break losses in terms of [...] Read more.
A large proportion of the dams in China are earth-rock dams. Regarding the well-studied loss of life and economic consequences due to dam breaks, this paper introduces the causes and modes of earth-rock dam breaks and the corresponding dam-break losses in terms of the social and environmental aspects. This study formulates the evaluation index system and criteria of earth-rock dam breaks’ impact on society and the environment based on a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. The results show that the evaluation grade of the social and environmental impact of the dam break of the Liujiatai Reservoir was “serious”. Therefore, similar dams in China should take corresponding measures in advance to reduce the social and environmental impact of earth-rock dam breaks. Full article
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