This article investigates the way a graded approach can be implemented in the organization of the project-based learning process in accordance with the personality characteristics of subjects. This study is based on the results analysis of the key fe...
The research question this study poses is how to measure the efficiency of project management activities. The purpose of this article is to quantify the efficiency of the execution of a project portfolio managed by a project management office (PMO) s...
Policy makers around the world are turning to smart city projects in an effort to address the challenges of population growth, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Previous studies have evaluated the effect of smart city projects on a...
With a huge capital and labor input influx, inter-basin water transfer (IBWT) projects have been shown to effectively mitigate water stress and ensure the water demand for social and economic development in the receiving area. Whether they have promo...
The study of carbon stocks in organic compounds within terrestrial ecosystems allows us to create a pool of potential carbon farming projects. At present, it is essential to assess the economic viability of natural-based solutions in order to develop...
Highly efficient designs and uniform designs are widely applied in many fields because of their good properties. The purpose of this paper is to study the issue of design efficiency for asymmetric minimum projection uniform designs. Based on the cent...
According to the European Commission Energy Union strategy from 2015, some of the main objectives are to improve energy efficiency, reduce dependence on energy imports, cut emissions, and drive jobs and growth. Achieving the objectives of the Energy...
Government R&D investments are steadily increasing with the perception that R&D plays an important role in technological innovation and sustainable economic growth. In particular, because biotechnology is recognized as one of the next growth...
The mining industry is a basic sector of the Russian economy. Sustainable Development Goals appear in the strategies of mining companies and are ensured, inter alia, by increasing the energy efficiency of enterprises and plants within their structure...
This study examines the relative implementation efficiency under a specified input–output framework and documented sustainability outcomes of New Development Bank (NDB)-financed infrastructure projects in India, China, and South Africa. Data En...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relative efficiency of open source software projects, and to analyze what is needed for their sustainable success. The success of open source software is known to be attributable to a massive number of...
In the paper, we introduce the Special Issue entitled “New Project Financing and Eco-Efficiency Models for Investment Sustainability”, and later present the form and contents of the thematic issue.
The self-attention mechanism has revolutionized sequence modeling but suffers from quadratic computational complexity with respect to sequence length, limiting its applicability to long sequences. We propose Sparse Projection Attention (SPA), a novel...
The joint action of the European directives and the national strategies make the issue of energy efficiency of the dwelling stock one of the main research directions in the field. The purpose of this study is to create and apply a methodology for dev...
The progressive expansion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been accompanied by an increasing interest from regulators and market analysts. Governments and supra-national organisations have issued guidance rules on CSR, while market analys...
From the perspective of economic benefit, this paper uses the DEA method to measure the input–output efficiency of the Beijing–Tianjin sandstorm source control project in Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia. The results show that f...
This study proposes super efficiency (SE) as an efficient analytical method for evaluating the performance of energy research projects. Because the SE method is based on data envelopment analysis (DEA), it is free from the difficulty of weighting out...
The rapidly evolving business landscape, driven by stringent energy conservation policies, compels construction firms to adopt energy-efficient project-centric structures, particularly in modern construction projects. These firms face a complex, mult...
Multi-radar systems can significantly improve tracking robustness and accuracy, but practical deployments are challenged by asynchronous sensing timestamps across distributed platforms and by limited communication bandwidth. This paper proposes a com...
This research focuses on improving construction project workflow efficiency using a hybrid scheme of Lean Six Sigma and monitoring sensors. Real-time data and automated monitoring improve project timeframes by detecting waste and eliminating ineffici...
In the evolving construction landscape, this study introduces a novel methodology leveraging Building Information Modeling (BIM) to revolutionize safety management across diverse projects. By transitioning from traditional, reactive approaches to a p...
Low-carbon economic efficiency is an important indicator that can be used to measure the quality of regional economic development. In this study, an improved DEA model is introduced into the calculation of low-carbon economic efficiency in Zhejiang P...
Project management plays a critical role in ensuring project success and organizational competitiveness, particularly in Saudi Arabia’s rapidly evolving construction sector. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technolog...
This study introduces a comprehensive framework combining building information modeling (BIM), project management body of knowledge (PMBOK), and machine learning (ML) to optimize energy efficiency and reduce environmental impacts in Riyadh’s co...
Fast urbanization and economic development lead to a prosperous high-rise building industry with high material handling efficiency (MHE). However, the integrated material handling (IMH) framework optimization and empirical studies on Chinese high-ris...
This article discusses the interactions among project management, social capital, and organizational efficiency in the cross-departmental synergetic design of home appliance enterprises, with the goal of providing a reference for related enterprises&...
As nations worldwide strive for carbon neutrality, Saudi Arabia has set ambitious targets to increase its renewable energy capacity, aiming for 50% of its electricity production to come from renewable sources by 2030. To accurately assess the economi...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted networking and communications are increasingly used in different applications, especially in the data collection of distributed Internet of Things (IoT) systems; its advantages include great flexibility and scal...
As an important support for power systems with high penetration of sustainable energy, the energy storage system (ESS) has changed the traditional model of simultaneous implementation of electricity production and consumption. Its installed capacity...
Climate change is reshaping yield formation and water use in cold-region rice production through rising air temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, the responses of yield, crop evapotransp...
In traditional information technology project portfolio management (ITPPM), managers often pay more attention to the optimization of portfolio selection in the initial stage. In fact, during the portfolio implementation process, there are still issue...
Project management has incorporated sustainability concepts, but their relationship is still widely discussed. In this article, we research key practices for incorporating sustainability in project management from the perspective of 919 Brazilian pro...
This paper examines traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA), cross efficiency (CE), and game efficiency (GE) models for software productivity analysis and ranking. Additionally, for CE models, secondary objectives of aggressive and benevolent for...
We conducted global warming projections using the Meteorological Research Institute-Atmospheric General Circulation Model Version 3.2 with a 60-km grid size (MRI-AGCM3.2H). For the present-day climate of 21 years from 1983 through 2003, the model was...
The province of Quebec, Canada, seeks to implement relational alternate project delivery methods to achieve sustainability and energy efficiency in public construction. However, the relational differences between the formal written parts of different...
Risk management in the construction industry has a significant role in the impact of a construction project. Risk management is needed to make processes more efficient in terms of the implementation of construction projects. This research is oriented...
The main aim of this paper was to examine specific approaches to determining the discount rate for comprehensive computation of investment projects efficiency in the oil and gas industry. The objective of the study was to develop a scientific approac...
Randomized estimation of the net present value of a housing development allows for the assessment of the efficiency of projects in random implementation conditions. The efficiency of a project is estimated on the basis of primary input data, usually...
The Strategic Water Storage & Recovery (SWSR) Project in Liwa, Abu Dhabi is a leading and unique hydrogeology project in the world because of both its financial and scientific dimensions. The objective of the project is to store desalinized water...
The need to reduce the negative environmental impact of energetics with the growing energy demand in the world is the core objective of the industry for the upcoming decades. The global agenda in the field of environmental protection increases the re...
The complex modern trends in the growth of the consumption of raw hydrocarbon materials around the world, and as a consequence their accelerated depletion, have forced oil and gas industry enterprises to identify progressive resource-saving methods a...
Material selection is a challenging process in which several parameters should be considered for green-certified projects. Hence, this study investigates the dynamics of sustainable material selection (SMS) across the project life cycle using system...
Proper water use requires its monitoring and evaluation. An indexes system of overall water use efficiency is constructed here that covers water consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP, the coefficient of effective utilization of irrigation water, the water...
The construction industry, a global economic pillar and carbon emission giant, faces a critical gap between digital transformation and risk management, which ultimately undermines the sector’s capacity for risk management. This study combines s...
The European Union is funding scientific research through the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Since the key priorities for the next few decades are the reduction in carbon emissions and the enhancement of energy system conversion efficiency, a coll...
Intelligent cost control in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects depends on the continuous transmission, updating, warning, correction, and reuse of cost data across multiple project stages. To analyse the resilience of this proc...
Nowadays, transitioning to hydrogen energy is considered one of the most promising ways for decoupling economic growth and increasing carbon emissions. Hydrogen demand worldwide is expected to increase in the upcoming decades. However, large-scale de...
This paper explores the implementation of the Best Value Approach in public procurement, particularly in construction projects, with a focus on its application at Brno University of Technology. This study addresses the need for qualitative evaluation...
The paper presents recent and future trends of the world energy market, as highlighted by medium- and long-term projections. Energy demand and energy consumptions projected by IEA (International Energy Agency) are examined, in comparison with project...
Efficiency assessment is a pivotal instrument in the pursuit of sustainable operations. It is imperative to evaluate government-funded afforestation initiatives to ensure the optimal utilisation of resources, thereby enhancing sustainability. In this...
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