Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is an active research topic to find a balance between all economic, environmental, and social factors where one important application of SSCM is construction industry, including many expensive projects, products, and supply chains for developed and developing countries around the world. The SSCM in these projects and supply chains can be determined by different decision-making problems including but not limited to facility location, production scheduling, network design, inventory and capacities, supply and delivery channels, transportation modes, and routing activities.

The goal of this Special Issue is to propose efficient and practical optimization models or decision-making theories for evaluating economic criteria (such as total cost or total profit, makespan, and revenue management), environmental criteria (such as the carbon emissions of transportation, the establishment of facilities, and the utilization of machines with regards to their energy consumption), and social criteria (such as job opportunities, lost workdays, safety levels of workers, the satisfaction of customers, and other local social development for workers and customers). To further analyze and shape the implementation of all these criteria, extensive and practical researches using optimization models and decision-making theories are needed for any constructive projects and supply chains. Hence, the scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Sustainable supply chain management in construction industry;
• Multi-objective optimization models and algorithms in construction industry;
• Large-scale combinatorial optimization in construction industry;
• Analyzing flexibility, resiliency, and reliability in construction industry;
• Production scheduling in construction industry;
• Supply and delivery channels in construction industry;
• Risk management in construction supply chains;
• Sustainable consumption and energy-savings in construction industry;
• Sustainable construction and resilient built infrastructure.

Note that prospective authors are requested to follow the instruction given in the website of Buildings to submit their latest, original, and innovative works to this Special Issue before the submission deadline. Please select the article type as “Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry” in the website. Otherwise, your submission will be considered in a regular issue.

Dr. Amir M. Fathollahi-Fard
Dr. Maxim A. Dulebenets
Dr. Honghao Zhang
Dr. Guangdong Tian
Guest Editors

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