Sustainable Project, Production and Service Operations Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 4331
Special Issue Editors
Interests: project management; project planning and evaluation; scheduling; resource usage optimization; applications of information technology and communications in project management; operations management; automation in construction; project risk management; risk analysis and assessment; safety risk assessment; meta-heuristic and hyper-heuristic optimization algorithms; artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms
Interests: intelligent systems; computational intelligence and cognitive engineering; data analytics and knowledge engineering; decision support systems, production and logistics engineering and management; engineering and project management, optimization, safety-risk and reliability engineering and management; total quality management and business excellence; innovation and technology management; patents; standardization, corporate social responsibility; international standards organization; global reporting initiative
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on "Sustainable Project, Production and Service Operations Management" aims to explore and elicit recent developments, new methods, tools, and application examples (case studies) regarding sustainability within construction projects, manufacturing, and service operations management.
Incorporating sustainable practices into project management, manufacturing, and service delivery processes is known as sustainable project, production, and operations management. It involves determining and minimizing the effects of project delivery, manufacturing, and service delivery on the environment, economy, and society.
Incorporating sustainability concepts into project management entails creating plans that minimize detrimental environmental and societal effects while fostering economic growth. Sustainable project management aims to eliminate waste, enhance social and economic consequences, and ensure optimal resource usage. For instance, sustainable project management prioritizes minimizing the project's carbon footprint, resource usage, and adverse social repercussions.
Businesses use environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques in sustainable production. Sustainable manufacturing aims to minimize environmental consequences, eliminate waste, and preserve natural resources. Additionally, lifecycle concerns are included in sustainable production processes. Utilizing low energy consumption, waste production, and emissions methods is the aim.
In order to be sustainable, service operations management must embrace procedures that encourage resource efficiency and reduce adverse environmental effects. Sustainability techniques in service delivery, including remote, mobile, and collaborative service delivery, involve reducing energy use, emissions, paper use, waste, transportation, and trash management.
Modern organizations must manage sustainable projects, production, and service operations. Businesses that want to reduce their adverse effects on the environment, enhance social welfare, and foster economic growth must adopt sustainability strategies.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews on theory/methods/applications and case studies from cross-discipline aspects of sustainable project management, manufacturing, service operations management, production control, economics, and the environment are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Georgios K. Koulinas
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- project management
- manufacturing process
- service delivery
- operations research
- circular economy
- lean manufacturing
- resource utilization
- life cycle considerations
- environmental impact reduction
- supply chain
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