Special Issue "Sustainable Building Design, Technological Innovation and Green Project Management"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2023) | Viewed by 6528
Special Issue Editors

Interests: construction; management; optimization; sustainability; H&S; education

Interests: construction; management; multicriteria assessment; sustainability; social psychology; sociology; education

Interests: construction; management; risk; prefabrication; sustainability; H&S; education

Interests: construction; management; optimization; sustainability; legal issues
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to cordially invite you to publish your best knowledge in this Special Issue of MDPI’s Sustainability. Sustainability is a term that is increasingly well-known and important in our society. All developments are linked to sustainability: sustainable living, sustainable building design, technological innovations, green project management, etc. Sustainability provides the link to the five P's: people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership, all of which are crucial in developing sustainability. This is why we have also decided to include soft skills in the scope of this Special Issue, as a notably important area of sustainable construction project management.
This is a broad subject, including projects related to housing, infrastructure (roads, bridges, tunnels, ports, and airports), factories, shopping centers, offices, warehouses, etc. The public and private sectors participate in the execution of these projects with the collaboration of architects, engineers, companies, financial entities, etc. The construction industry is complex, establishing the base within which the three major sectors in which economic activities are set. A generalized opinion puts the framework within an intermediate situation, between industrial activities and services. Its ultimate purpose is to design and complete a series of products (or infrastructures) and their subsequent commissioning for their use.
Improving the scientific and practical knowledge of personnel is very important because of the efficiency and sustainability of the construction industry. There is a great migration of engineers and construction managers in the construction sector due to the different states of economic development of different countries. For this reason, it is extremely important that construction managers’ qualifications and skills are being recognized and researched in the same way all over the world.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide valuable insights into sustainability in a broad area of construction-related issues, with a specific interest in methods, empirical evidence and applications, simulations, as well as conceptual frameworks. We are looking for sustainable construction industry solutions related to each of the five common phases: (1) feasibility, (2) design, (3) execution, (4) commissioning and operation, including maintenance, and (5) demolition.
Topics for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):
- Sustainable building design;
- Technological innovations in construction;
- Green project management;
- International certification systems, for example: LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, U.S.), BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method, UK), HQE (Haute Qualité d'Environnement, FR), and Valideo (Belgium);
- Quality management;
- Optimization in construction;
- H&S;
- Education of construction and managerial personel;
- Legal issues;
- Social psychology, sociology, mentoring, and coaching in construction;
- Human resource management;
- Green prefabrication;
- Lean manufacturing in precast concrete industry;
- BIM, digital twins, extended reality (XR), virtual reality (AR), augmented reality, mixed reality (MR), laser scanners, drones, etc.;
- AI-based systems;
- Lowering carbon footprint;
- Urban mining;
- Construction 4.0;
- Assessment methods, modeling, and simulation for sustainability in construction;
- Performance measurement for sustainability in construction.
Dr. Jerzy Rosłon
Dr. Mariola Książek-Nowak
Dr. Aleksander Nicał
Dr. Paweł Nowak
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- sustainability
- building design
- technological innovation
- green construction
- project management
- optimization
- industry 4.0
- ICT in construction
- BIM
- soft skills in construction