Project Management for Sustainable Construction

Dear Colleagues,

The use of sustainable construction practices is critical to reduce adverse impacts on climate change and environmental degradation. The construction, operation, and demolition of building and infrastructure projects has contributed to air, noise, and water pollution, and has generated landfill waste. In the last decade, construction project participants (owners, designers, contractors, and facility managers) have been developing sustainable construction management practices to decrease the level of this pollution to make the Earth more livable. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the regulatory, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and demolition management practices that have been used by project participants in order to reduce their impact on climate change.

This Special Issue focuses on the various project management practices used by the project participants throughout the life-cycles of construction projects to make them environmentally sustainable. This includes practices used to increase sustainability that are related to environmental rules and regulations, planning, project delivery selection, contract procurement, design management, construction, operation, maintenance, and demolition. In addition, the construction materials and methods used to make building and infrastructure projects more sustainable will be addressed in this Special Issue. This Issue will also focus on dispute resolution and claim management practices related to sustainable construction. The main purpose of this Issue is to provide a body of knowledge related to sustainable construction management practices to owners, designers, contractors, and facility managers.

Prof. Dr. Pramen P. Shrestha
Guest Editor

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