Among the many sources of financial and operational risk in supply chains are the Incoterms®, which are terms of trade used to decide who does what in a cargo movement, when risk passes from seller to buyer and who pays for which part of the move...
Integrating Lean Construction (LC), the Circular Economy (CE), and Construction 5.0 (C5.0) remains challenging in emerging delivery contexts. This difficulty increases when procurement routines determine which practices become enforceable across tend...
Manufactures have been pressed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by environmental regulations and policies. Towards to reduction of GHG emissions, a carbon tax has been already introduced in 40 countries. Owing to different carbon prices among...
The availability of critical spare parts is essential for maintaining the reliability and operational continuity of combined cycle power plants. However, demand for critical spare parts is typically sparse, intermittent, and highly non-linear, which...
Building information modelling (BIM) continues gaining popularity in engineering construction as it helps lower the life cycle cost and ensure sustainability. The primary aim of this study was to delve into the effectiveness of BIM implementation in...
Background: Buildings and construction account for a substantial share of global energy use, carbon dioxide emissions, and material extraction, making both operational and embodied carbon central to climate-resilient building policy. Methods: This ar...
Prefabricated buildings have the advantages of high efficiency and saving resources. However, China’s prefabricated buildings were built relatively late, and there are problems in terms of their low standardization, integration, and industriali...
Growing interest in the productivity of the infrastructure sector has increased due to cost and time overruns in major projects. In this regard, many developed countries have failed to implement a framework to ensure that project success is met throu...
Fragmented, sector-by-sector governance is poorly suited to cascading risks that couple climate, food, water, health, biodiversity, soils, energy, and environmental quality. This paper addresses the translation gap between integrative security–...
Supply chain disruptions make procurement lead time (PLT) uncertain, so a reorder point that meets a target customer service level must be set against several sources of risk at once, including disruption-induced abnormal replenishment lead times. Th...
This review paper highlights feasible and practicable approaches for managing end-of-life rolling stocks. It aims to promote and enable sustainable procurement policy for rolling stocks. Firstly, it demonstrates that modern rolling stocks can potenti...
Plant projects, referred to as Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC), generate massive amounts of data throughout their life cycle, from the planning stages to the operation and maintenance (OM) stages. Many EPC contractors struggle with the...
The inadequate risk management of public–private partnership (PPP) projects is a principal cause of project distress or failure. This research seeks to identify and empirically validate measures of effective risk management (ERM) in the context...
Healthcare cleaning services are essential for infection prevention but contribute significantly to the environmental footprint of hospital operations through the intensive use of chemicals, water, and energy. This study presents an integrated assess...
Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects span the entire cycle of industrial plants, from bidding to engineering, construction, and start-up operation and maintenance. Most EPC contractors do not have systematic decision-making tools...
The introduction or strengthening of a carbon tax is being considered in many countries as an economic policy instrument to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, there is no study analyzing the impact of a carbon tax increase in a uniform m...
Global Nickel (Ni) smelters’ have been experiencing profit losses for nearly a decade due to the 2008 recession still impacting the industry, oversupply, and fluctuating ore quality. This paper proposes to aid the Ni smelters with the lattermos...
Quality risk management, commonly known as QRM, is designed to systematically assess, control, communicate, and review potential risks at every stage of the pharmaceutical manufacturing process. The preservation of consistent product quality across t...
The ever-increasing concerns of the growth in the volume of waste tires and new strict government legislations to reduce the environmental impact of the end-of-life (EOL) tires have increased interest among companies to design a sustainable and effic...
Maintenance activities to replace, repair, and revamp equipment in the industrial plant sector are gradually needed for sustainability during the plant’s life cycle. In order to carry out these revamping activities, the plant owners exchange ma...
Innovation matters. Business success increasingly depends upon sustainable innovation. Observing recent innovation best practices, the emergence of a new paradigm is traceable. Creating an innovative ecosystem has a multilayer effect: It contributes...
The railway industry is one of the most important sectors driving growth of regional economies worldwide. The industry has long dealt with both infrastructure and rolling stock. Many of these have reached the end of their lives. This paper highlights...
Healthcare cleaning services are essential for infection prevention and control, but they also contribute to the carbon footprint of healthcare facilities through recurrent consumption of detergents, disinfectants, textiles, water, energy, and transp...
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The presence of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the aquatic environment has recently become a global issue. The very large number of CECs reported in the literature makes it difficult to interpret potential risks as well as the removal eff...
Life cycle cost (LCC) analysis has become a key tool for evaluating the long-term economic and environmental performance of built assets, yet its application in marinas and marine infrastructure remains underdeveloped. This review provides the first...
The specificity of the business of agro-food companies is that their products have little or no impact on the environment. However, environmental pollution of these products is caused by the use of packaging. Therefore, it is necessary to apply the p...
Housing market research has traditionally emphasized forecasting continuous price levels, often overlooking the discrete regime shifts that more directly capture cyclical risk and market turning points relevant to construction planning and investment...