Advanced Technologies for Successful and Sustainable Construction and Maintenance Projects—2nd Edition
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2025 | Viewed by 1932
Special Issue Editor
Interests: public works contract procurement; contract management and claims management; multi-criteria decision making; project planning; construction cost estimation; project procurement systems; construction supply chain management; safety and risk management in construction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
What constitutes a successful project? The recent debate on this question refutes the well-known “iron triangle” to include factors other than cost, time, and quality, such as safety, environmental impact, and client and user satisfaction. Similarly, the environmental concerns of recent decades have asked the question, what is a sustainable project? It is well known that factors significantly contributing to climate change and global warming during construction include increased levels of carbon emissions and other atmospheric pollutants, waste generation, and natural resource consumption. Therefore, construction projects that have the least detrimental effect on the environment can be considered sustainable. These can be projects that encompass environmentally friendly construction materials and techniques during their initial construction, as well as ecological retrofitting methods and materials during operation. Environmental protection issues augment the complexity of construction and maintenance projects, thus resulting in a greater need for new advanced management and decision-making tools and techniques.
This Special Issue aims at showcasing recent academic and industrial developments for successful and sustainable project management through the whole life cycle of construction projects. Specific topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Project success prediction and project failure analysis;
- Green construction methods and materials;
- Circular economy in construction;
- Lean construction techniques;
- Applications of robotics and automation in construction;
- New approaches to project planning, budget estimating, cost control, quality control and construction safety assurance;
- Risk management;
- Multicriteria decision making in urban planning, construction, and maintenance projects;
- Sustainable procurement and contract management;
- Supply chain management in construction and maintenance;
- Successful claim management;
- New skills and leadership qualities for successful construction projects;
- Digital transformations of construction processes and organizations.
Dr. Fani Antoniou
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- construction management
- project success
- sustainable construction
- decision making
- procurement
- contracts
- claim management
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