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Current Trends in Sustainable Building Materials

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 February 2024) | Viewed by 3961

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Nicholas Chileshe

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UniSA STEM, Sustainable Infrastructure and Resource Management (SIRM), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Interests: waste management; sustainable construction; reverse logistics; risk management; closed loop supply chains
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Dr. Chioma Okoro

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College of Business and Economics, Finance and Investment Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Interests: sustainability; housing infrastructure planning and development; construction health and safety; facilities management
Prof. Dr. Jamal Khatib

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1. Civil Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK
2. Faculty of Engineering, Beirut Arab University, Beirut 11 5020, Lebanon
Interests: construction and structural materials
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Although the building and construction industry contributes to society’s requirements by improving the quality of life, its appetite for raw materials and impact while serving current needs is huge. The industry and its related activities substantially generate harmful emissions, accounting for nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with 18% accruing from construction operations, mainly due transportation and processing of construction materials (Qin et al.,2021). With urban areas growing in population by 200,000 people per day, construction activities will continue to impact on the world’s resources and society (Breene, 2023). Hence, fulfilling current housing and infrastructure needs and ensuring that the ability to meet the future generations’ needs is not compromised are equally critical.

However, ensuring sustainability is contingent on a variety of factors including; competitive advantage, client satisfaction, quality of the service or product, low costs, waste management, energy consumption and long-term benefits and impacts (Albert et al., 2021; Qin et al., 2021; Sandanayake, 2022). Thus, the scope and opportunities for improvements in sustainable construction are significant. By focusing on sustainability of construction materials, the industry can realise more efficiency gains.

This special issue seeks new and emerging contributions, and adaptive and operational frameworks that challenge the status quo and discussions concerning sustainability of construction materials. It aims to explore new and emerging issues from strategic, managerial, and operational perspectives.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

  • Sustainable construction alternatives
  • Green and circular economy in construction
  • Sustainability assessment and indicators
  • Best practices in sustainable construction materials design and implementation
  • Socio-economic and environmental sustainability in construction
  • Technologies in building and rehabilitation
  • Manufacturing, processing and waste disposal
  • Resource efficiency / Sustainable use of material resources
  • Life cycle sustainability thinking for buildings (including quality and costs)
  • Resilient and cognitive buildings
  • Material characteristics and building performance/service efficiency
  • Materials management and value chains in building and construction sustainability
  • Lean construction
  • New and emerging trends in sustainable building
  • Applications to standards, regulation, codes and policy
  • Post-occupancy evaluation, monitoring and facilities management

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

References

Albert, I., Shakantu, W. & Ibrahim, S. (2021). The effect of poor materials management in the construction industry: a case study of Abuja, Nigeria. Acta Structilia, 28(1): 142-167.

Breene, K. (2023). Can the circular economy transform the world’s number one consumer of raw materials? World Economic Forum.

Mostert, C, Weber, C. & Bringezu, S.(2022). Modelling and simulation of building material flows: Assessing the potential for concrete recycling in the German construction sector. Recycling, 7(2): 13.

Qin, D., Hu, Y. & Li, X. (2021). Waste Glass Utilization in Cement-Based Materials for Sustainable Construction: A Review. Crystals, 11, 710.

Sandanayake, M. S. (2022). Environmental impacts of construction in building industry: A review of knowledge advances, gaps and future directions. Knowledge, 2(1): 139-156.

Dr. Nicholas Chileshe
Dr. Chioma Okoro
Prof. Dr. Jamal Khatib
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • building and construction industry
  • facilities management
  • green and circular economy
  • infrastructure development
  • lean construction
  • post-occupancy evaluation
  • resilient and cognitive buildings
  • resource efficiency
  • sustainability
  • sustainable construction materials

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The Identification of Sustainability Assessment Indicators for Road Infrastructure Projects in Tanzania
by Chisomo Kapatsa, Neema Kavishe, Godwin Maro and Sam Zulu
Sustainability 2023, 15(20), 14840; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014840 - 13 Oct 2023
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The performance of sustainability in infrastructure projects continues to face challenges in its implementation and attainment in developing countries, one of which is the lack of appraisal tools and indicators for the assessment of sustainability. Studies indicate that there are no formal indicators [...] Read more.
The performance of sustainability in infrastructure projects continues to face challenges in its implementation and attainment in developing countries, one of which is the lack of appraisal tools and indicators for the assessment of sustainability. Studies indicate that there are no formal indicators for sustainability assessment on road infrastructure projects in Tanzania, the lack of which limits the determination of whether projects implemented are sustainable or not. Therefore, this study aimed at determining the key sustainability assessment indicators used for road infrastructure projects in Tanzania. A concurrent mixed research approach was adopted in which the sample was purposively selected. A content analysis and descriptive statistics using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 20.0) were used to analyze qualitative and quantitative data, respectively. The findings indicate that 24 indicators are applicable to Tanzania. Among the highly ranked include “health and safety training to workers”, “health and safety personnel in the project team”, “site barriers and safety warning signs”, “personal protective equipment (PPE) provision”, and “waste collection”. The qualitative results further support the identified sustainability assessment indicators on road infrastructure projects in Tanzania, with one new indicator of “air quality” emerging. The findings inform the government and other relevant stakeholders in the construction industry including planners, designers, and project managers of the key sustainability assessment indicators for roads, which would influence regulation as well as policies to improve the sustainability performance of road projects in Tanzania. Full article
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Building Information Modelling Implementation Model for Sustainable Building Projects in Developing Countries: A PLS-SEM Approach
by Maged Abdel-Tawab, Ahmed Farouk Kineber, Nicholas Chileshe, Henry Abanda, Ali Hassan Ali and Avar Almukhtar
Sustainability 2023, 15(12), 9242; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129242 - 7 Jun 2023
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When building homes, sustainability principles should be followed throughout the process to achieve maximum advantages. Building information modeling (BIM) activities can aid in achieving sustainable goals. Third-world countries’ building industry implements informal approaches to information dissemination through email newsletters and websites. This research [...] Read more.
When building homes, sustainability principles should be followed throughout the process to achieve maximum advantages. Building information modeling (BIM) activities can aid in achieving sustainable goals. Third-world countries’ building industry implements informal approaches to information dissemination through email newsletters and websites. This research seeks to provide a model for the application of BIM and its relationship with overall sustainable success (OSS) in building projects. BIM activities were identified from the literature, and a survey form was distributed to 180 professionals in the Egyptian construction industry. Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to establish the structure of BIM activities and assess their correlation with project success, revealing BIM accounts for 30% of sustainability. The study’s findings inform decision-making to improve project sustainability and reduce costs by introducing BIM to developing countries’ construction industries. Full article
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