Special Issue "Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management: Enablers of Change, Part II"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
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Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Laboratory of Operational Research, Research Institute of Sustainable Construction, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: multicriteria decision making; energy; sustainable development; machine learning, entropy, fuzzy sets theory; fuzzy multicriteria decision making; sustainability
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Prof. Dr. Jurgita Antucheviciene
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Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: multiple-criteria decision-making; operations research; decision support systems; multiple-criteria optimization in construction technology and management; sustainable construction; investments
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Dr. M. Reza Hosseini
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School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Interests: digital engineering; building information modeling (BIM); Internet of Things (IoT); Industry 4.0
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Dr. Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini
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School of Future Environments, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: architectural design; building science; building performance; intelligent buildings; smart cities

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Concern about sustainability is becoming indispensable to delivering projects and making decisions across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. It is, therefore, incumbent upon all related fields such as construction management, project management, and engineering to recalibrate their working practices and redefine processes to comply with sustainability principles. Numerous opportunities are available for incorporating the concept of sustainability in the AEC industry. Projects can become sustainable in numerous ways. Sustainability can be integrated across the entire life cycle of a built asset, ranging all the way from mining of raw construction materials, components manufacturing, and procurement methods, to conceptualisation of projects, design, shipment, and transportation, assembly, commissioning, operations, maintenance, refurbishing; to eventual demolition and disposal. All these procedures can be enhanced through adopting sustainability enablers that facilitate change. Chief among all are smart technologies, advanced decision support systems, and ever-sophisticated efficient operational systems, which are designed for augmenting sustainability and making projects greener.

This proposed and pioneering ‘Special Issue’ aims to provide a platform for construction researchers who seek to showcase the emergent findings from their research not only on the roles various sustainability enablers, but also on how these enablers can disrupt the AEC industry’s ways of working. This Special Issue welcomes articles that offer novel insight into the challenges and opportunities for integrating these enablers into AEC projects, to advance the agenda of making projects sustainable in all facets. Both conceptual and technical papers and those focusing on specific operational or procedural solutions are encouraged. Submitted papers can be project-focused or may target organizations or industry at a strategic level, as their level of analysis. All pillars of sustainability comprising environmental, social, or economic considerations in AEC projects are welcome. Articles that explore decision support systems, theoretical aspects of multiple criteria modelling and optimization in crisp or uncertain environment or elaborate on the state-of-the-art case studies related to sustainable construction decision aiding, are appreciated.

Prof. Dr. Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
Prof. Dr. Jurgita Antucheviciene
Dr. M. Reza Hosseini
Dr. Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable construction site selection
  • sustainable building design
  • sustainable building materials, components, and buildings
  • making construction and building technologies sustainable
  • green construction processes
  • construction economics for sustainability
  • green supply chain management
  • sustainable construction procurement
  • contracting for sustainable projects
  • green infrastructure construction and management
  • industrial relations for social sustainability
  • green building maintenance
  • building life-cycle analysis
  • building energy efficiency
  • sustainable project cost management
  • deconstruction, sustainable demolition and disposal
  • health and safety on projects
  • sustainable risk management
  • urban and regional sustainability
  • information technologies for sustainable construction
  • circular economy adoption in construction projects
  • multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM)
  • multi-attribute decision making (MADM)
  • multi-objective decision making (MODM)
  • multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT)
  • interval-valued fuzzy sets
  • intuitionistic fuzzy sets
  • neutrosophic sets
  • grey systems
  • rough sets
  • computer-aided problem solutions
  • research and development

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An Integrated Decision Support Model Based on BWM and Fuzzy-VIKOR Techniques for Contractor Selection in Construction Projects
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6933; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126933 - 20 Jun 2021
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Sustainable development of any country to some extent depends on successful accomplishment of construction projects, particularly infrastructures. Contractors have a key role in the success of these projects. Hence, the selection of a competent contractor as a complicated and hard decision process has [...] Read more.
Sustainable development of any country to some extent depends on successful accomplishment of construction projects, particularly infrastructures. Contractors have a key role in the success of these projects. Hence, the selection of a competent contractor as a complicated and hard decision process has a vital importance in the destiny of any construction project. Contractor selection is in essence a multicriteria decision-making that ought to encompass so many aspects of the project and the client’s requirements on one hand and the capabilities and past records of the contractors on the other hand. Failure in selecting a competent contractor may cause time and cost overruns; quality shortcomings; increasing in claims, disputes and change orders; and even failure of the project. In spite of deficiencies of selecting a contractor by the rule of “the lowest bid price”, it still prevails in many countries including Iran. In this paper, a new contractor selection model based on the best-worst method (BWM) and well-known Fuzzy-VIKOR techniques is proposed as a solution to overcome the deficiencies of the traditional “lowest bid price” rule. An illustrative example of a water channel construction project verified the applicability of the proposed model in practice. Full article
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