Sustainability-Focused Design, Technology, Organization and Management in Energy-Efficient Construction
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 April 2024) | Viewed by 2075
Special Issue Editors
Interests: civil engineering; multi-criteria decision making; sustainable construction; sustainable and innovative materials and technologies; organization; construction management
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Interests: systems engineering; operational research; network science; meta-networks; dynamic network analysis; multi-agent systems; deep learning; risk and uncertainty in construction; restoration of historical building
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Interests: construction project management; multi-criteria decision making; systems engineering; operational research; partnering in construction; fuzzy inference systems; network science
Interests: earth-based construction technologies; rammed earth architecture; degrowth; urban resilience; thermal retrofitting of housing; optimization of the adaptive re-use of heritage sites; ecological education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable development has ceased to be a fashionable idea—it is a necessity. This approach requires an interdisciplinary and multi-aspect perspective. In the context of relevant challenges, modern materials and technologies are continuously developed in the sustainable building sector, as are planning, organization, and construction management systems.
This Special Issue will discuss efforts to support sustainable construction and, in particular, aspects associated with technology, organization, and management in this sector. The subject matter aligned with this question includes the design, construction, modernization, and occupancy of both individual buildings and entire building complexes, as well as the management of smart infrastructure and construction.
We invite prospective authors to submit papers presenting original research and critical reviews on the broadly understood aspect of how civil engineering informs and shapes architecture, as well as how the synergy between them can lead to addressing emerging issues in both fields, especially in relation to providing high-performance, sustainable, and/or low-cost solutions for all phases of a building's life cycle.
Prof. Dr. Elżbieta Radziszewska-Zielina
Dr. Grzegorz Śladowski
Dr. Bartłomiej Szewczyk
Dr. Krzysztof Barnaś
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- keywords sustainable building
- smart infrastructure and construction
- sustainable management
- nearly zero-energy buildings
- indoor air quality
- sustainability materials and technologies
- building materials and structures
- construction processes
- construction economics, cost management
- risk management
- construction procurement, public procurement, and construction work
- competitive bidding procedure organization
- construction management and organization
- construction company management
- construction company marketing, construction market research
- decision-making support systems in the construction sector
- building life cycle analysis
- information technologies, computer-aided problem solutions
- construction project management
- planning and organization of construction
- communication at the construction site
- self-organizing networks of communication
- social network analysis (SNA)
- multiple-criteria analysis
- fuzzy modeling and control (expert systems)
- network methods, graph theory
- survey studies and interviews
- statistical analysis and correlation as well as regression models
- operational research, optimization methods
- structural systems as architecture
- interface of architecture and civil engineering
- interface of urban planning and civil engineering
- emerging research in finishing and facade materials
- modular and prefab construction
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