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Promoting Sustainable Management of Construction Projects

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2024) | Viewed by 6736

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Qingfeng Meng

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Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: complex project management; complex construction management; supply chain management; green development; computing experiment; organization behavior

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the in-depth popularization of the concept of sustainable development, the outdated concept of engineering has gradually been eliminated, and the harmonious development between man, nature and society has received widespread attention. As a pillar industry of the national economy, the construction industry needs to emphasize the unity of the project economy and environmental protection. The implementation of green buildings is a way to cope with ecological pressures and adhere to the concept of sustainable development, which promotes the green development of the construction industry. Although scholars have been committed to exploring this field for decades, the scientific issues related to the process of engineering project management still deserve attention, especially as policy systems, multi-project management models (portfolios and plans), green materials and information technology adoption, risk assessment and control, and social responsibility have brought many new challenges to green building project management. This Special Issue aims to introduce and collect research papers and/or literature reviews on green and sustainable directions in engineering management to clarify the research status in this field, introduce the latest research results, and point out these new directions for green and sustainable buildings. Papers may cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • sustainable economic development models in construction projects;
  • supply chain management of green engineering projects;
  • risk management of green engineering projects;
  • decision optimization for green building projects;
  • corporate social responsibility in green building projects;
  • analysis of greenwashing behavior in green buildings;
  • monitoring of the construction process for sustainable management;
  • green management and evaluation of engineering projects;
  • recycling of construction waste.

Prof. Dr. Qingfeng Meng
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable economic development models in construction projects
  • supply chain management of green engineering projects
  • risk management of green engineering projects
  • decision optimization for green building projects
  • corporate social responsibility in green building projects
  • analysis of greenwashing behavior in green buildings
  • monitoring of the construction process for sustainable management
  • green management and evaluation of engineering projects
  • recycling of construction waste

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Should We Depend on Expert Opinion or Statistics? A Meta-Analysis of Accident-Contributing Factors in Construction
by Fani Antoniou, Nektaria Filitsa Agrafioti and Georgios Aretoulis
Buildings 2024, 14(4), 910; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14040910 - 27 Mar 2024
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International research overflows with studies looking into the causes of construction accidents. Hundreds of studies by postgraduate students in the past 20 years focus on identifying and assessing risks contributing to accidents on Greek construction workplace sites. Many base their work on results [...] Read more.
International research overflows with studies looking into the causes of construction accidents. Hundreds of studies by postgraduate students in the past 20 years focus on identifying and assessing risks contributing to accidents on Greek construction workplace sites. Many base their work on results from questionnaire surveys that collect the opinions of construction site professionals or on the analysis of data from actual accident records or statistics. Consequently, this study seeks to determine if the data source leads to differing conclusions by using two techniques to synthesize individual results and rank the accident-contributing factors investigated in the original studies. The first utilizes their relative importance index (RII) values, and the second uses their overall ranking index (ORI) to execute meta-analyses. The professional opinion concludes that factors related to operative behavior are the most significant accident-contributing factors. At the same time, actual accident statistics point to site risk factors of the construction process itself as the most important, indicating that expert opinion of Greek professionals should be considered in conjunction with data from actual accident records to provide the focus points for mitigation and assurance of safe construction sites in Greece. Full article
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Promoting the Sustainable Development of Power Construction Projects through Stakeholder Participant Mechanisms: An Evolutionary Game Analysis
by Lihong Li, Kun Song, Rui Zhu, Ou Zhang and Xue Jiang
Buildings 2024, 14(3), 663; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14030663 - 1 Mar 2024
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The sustainable development of power construction projects (PCPs) is of great significance in solving the issue of high carbon emissions in the power industry. However, the profit-seeking nature of stakeholders’ strategic choices and other conflicts have seriously hindered this process. This study constructs [...] Read more.
The sustainable development of power construction projects (PCPs) is of great significance in solving the issue of high carbon emissions in the power industry. However, the profit-seeking nature of stakeholders’ strategic choices and other conflicts have seriously hindered this process. This study constructs a tripartite game evolution model for the government, grid companies and the public, and determines the factors and range of values that affect the behavioral and strategic choices of stakeholders based on the literature analysis method and case study method. Numerical simulations are conducted with the help of MATLAB R2021a software to explore the changes in decision-making behavior of stakeholders and system stabilization strategies in different stages of the industry life cycle and the influencing mechanisms. The results show that in the initial stage, the government lays the foundation for the development of PCPs through policy guidance under the government-led mechanism. As PCPs move into the development stage, stakeholders’ benefits increase, creating a collaborative participation situation. As PCPs mature, the role of market guidance comes to the fore, and the interventionist role of government diminishes to a guardian role. In terms of sensitivity analysis of relevant parameters, low government rewards and penalties are not conducive to the adoption of low-carbon sustainable construction programs by power grid companies. The public influences the sustainable behavior of the government and power grid companies through public opinion. In addition, reasonable cost inputs from all stakeholders are critical to effectively promote the steady growth of PCPs. Based on the results, a sustainable development promotion mechanism for PCPs is constructed based on multiple dimensions, with a view to providing decision-making services for stakeholders and thus contributing to the sustainable development of PCPs. Full article
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Evaluating Building Construction Safety Performance in Different Regions in China
by Jiaying Xu, Qingfeng Meng, Xiaoliang Li, Yanrui Bao and Heap-Yih Chong
Buildings 2023, 13(7), 1845; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13071845 - 21 Jul 2023
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This article employs a three-stage slack-based data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) model to evaluate the construction safety performance (CSP) of 30 provinces and cities in China, focusing on enhancing the sustainable development of construction safety in the industry, in line with the concept of [...] Read more.
This article employs a three-stage slack-based data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) model to evaluate the construction safety performance (CSP) of 30 provinces and cities in China, focusing on enhancing the sustainable development of construction safety in the industry, in line with the concept of sustainable development. The research findings indicate that the supervision environment of each province and city exerts a more substantial influence on the sustainable development of construction safety compared with the level of socio-economic development. Significant changes have been observed in the regional distribution of construction safety management levels within the construction industry by eliminating the impact of economic development, the supervision environment, and random errors. The original pattern of “East > West > Central > Northeast” has shifted to “East > Central > Northeast > West.” Moreover, it has been discovered that high-efficiency values of safety performance in certain provinces and cities are partially attributed to external environmental (EE) pressure. In contrast, low-efficiency values cannot be solely attributed to their lack of willingness to implement safety management. Finally, the article proposes strategies, including government policy-led approaches, technology prioritization, and management prioritization, to enhance the sustainable development of construction safety in the construction industry based on the internal safety performance of each province. Full article
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