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Resilient Infrastructure and Construction Management

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2023) | Viewed by 7068

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Bassam A. Tayeh

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Associate Professor/HOD, Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine
Interests: construction management; building information modelling (BIM); concrete technology; structural engineering
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Dr. Wesam Salah Alaloul

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia
Interests: construction management and materials; life cycle cost assessment; artificial intelligent and modelling; building information modelling (BIM); sustainable development and green buildings; facility management and decommissioning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this issue is to bring together the awareness of the construction industry participants towards Resilient Infrastructure and Construction Management. Reducing direct losses and indirect costs of interruption can be aided by making the infrastructure climate resilient. Prioritization, planning, design, construction, and operation of new infrastructure assets should take into account potential climate changes throughout their useful lives. In addition to enabling sound economic growth, the creation of jobs, and the purchase of goods and services from the local community, sustainable infrastructure also improves citizens' quality of life, multiplies positive effects (benefits), aids in protecting the environment and our irreplaceable natural resources, and encourages a more effective and efficient government. Besides, the management is essential while considering the resilient infrastructure aspects where the construction management is a specialised service that gives project owners effective control over the project's budget, timeline, scope, quality, and function. All project delivery techniques are compatible with modern construction management, e.g., digital twin.

This Special Issue, entitled ‘Resilient Infrastructure and Construction Management’, tackles the following topics:

  • Resilient infrastructure complexity.
  • Emerging technologies in resilient infrastructure.
  • Industrial Revolution in construction management and resilient infrastructure.
  • Construction management complexity.
  • Emerging technologies in construction management.
  • Opportunities and challenges in resilient infrastructure and construction management.
  • Sustainable construction and resilient infrastructure.

Regards

Dr. Bassam A. Tayeh
Dr. Wesam Salah Alaloul
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • resilient infrastructure
  • sustainable construction
  • construction management operating fields
  • industrial revolution

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Revolutionising the 4D BIM Process to Support Scheduling Requirements in Modular Construction
by Mohammad Mayouf, Jamie Jones, Faris Elghaish, Hassan Emam, E. M. A. C. Ekanayake and Ilnaz Ashayeri
Sustainability 2024, 16(2), 476; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16020476 - 5 Jan 2024
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Given the heightened importance of revolutionising 4D BIM-based construction scheduling in modular construction, it has become vital to explore how 4D-BIM could be integrated with the lean concept. Therefore, this research aims to develop a lean-integrated process model to revolutionise the 4D BIM-based [...] Read more.
Given the heightened importance of revolutionising 4D BIM-based construction scheduling in modular construction, it has become vital to explore how 4D-BIM could be integrated with the lean concept. Therefore, this research aims to develop a lean-integrated process model to revolutionise the 4D BIM-based construction scheduling in modular construction projects. A case study approach was used to obtain the data. The data was obtained using semi-structured interviews with construction scheduling professionals, site observations, and extracts from the BIM model used within the selected case in the UK. Findings showed that conventional (component/object based) 4D BIM supersedes conventional scheduling methods in terms of foreseeing potential implications during design and construction. The findings also showed that lean-integrated 4D BIM in modular construction have different considerations when compared with component/object-based scheduling. A lean-integrated 4D BIM process model was developed from the analysis and it was validated using an interactive workshop with eight participants from two UK construction companies and two modular construction manufacturers. The developed process model identified a number of considerations for 4D BIM in modular projects including constructability, operations, health and safety risks and time. This study suggested the further potential of 4D BIM in scheduling for modular construction projects. Full article
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Hygrothermal and Economic Analysis of an Earth-Based Building Using In Situ Investigations and Artificial Neural Network Modeling for Normandy’s Climate Conditions
by Karim Touati, Mohammed-Hichem Benzaama, Yassine El Mendili, Malo Le Guern, François Streiff and Steve Goodhew
Sustainability 2023, 15(18), 13985; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813985 - 20 Sep 2023
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This paper investigates the in situ hygrothermal behavior of a cob prototype building equipped with multiple sensors for measuring temperature, relative humidity inside the building, and water content within its walls. The experimental results show that the earth-based prototype building presents interesting thermal [...] Read more.
This paper investigates the in situ hygrothermal behavior of a cob prototype building equipped with multiple sensors for measuring temperature, relative humidity inside the building, and water content within its walls. The experimental results show that the earth-based prototype building presents interesting thermal insulation performance. Without any heating system, the indoor temperature was found to remain stable, near 20 °C, despite large fluctuations in the outdoor temperature. This study also illustrated the ability of cob to absorb and regulate indoor relative humidity. The use of a neural network model for predicting the hygrothermal behavior of the cob prototype building was an additional objective of this work. This latter was centered on investigating the indoor ambience and moisture content within the walls. In this sense, a long short-term memory model (LSTM) was developed and trained. The validation results revealed an excellent agreement between the model predictions and experimental data, with R2 values of 0.994 for the indoor air temperature, 0.960 for the relative humidity, and 0.973, 0.925, and 0.938 for the moisture content at three different depths in the building’s walls. These results indicate that the LSTM model is a promising approach for predicting the indoor ambience of an earth-based building, with potential applications in building automation and energy management. Finally, an economic discussion of the CobBauge system is presented. Full article
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Success Criteria for Applying Construction Technologies in Residential Projects
by Ayman Altuwaim, Abdulelah AlTasan and Abdulmohsen Almohsen
Sustainability 2023, 15(8), 6854; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086854 - 19 Apr 2023
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The construction sector has seen a surge in publications over the years, indicating that construction technologies are gaining traction across all economic sectors as a result of rapid technology growth. The focus on construction technologies is evident in industrialized nations and those with [...] Read more.
The construction sector has seen a surge in publications over the years, indicating that construction technologies are gaining traction across all economic sectors as a result of rapid technology growth. The focus on construction technologies is evident in industrialized nations and those with high gross national product (GNP). This study was conducted to assess the success criteria of applying advanced construction technologies in residential projects. The research started with creating the evaluation criteria which were formulated by taking into account the analysis and findings of previous research and expert opinions. Then, these criteria have been evaluated according to their importance for real estate developers. To assess the contributions of construction technologies in bettering the current construction methods in residential projects, the success criteria of employing the new technologies are examined based on real estate developers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, who are the target customers. Research findings illustrated that the most essential criteria for utilizing construction technologies in residential projects are “Reducing cost”, “Increasing the safety on-site” and “Reducing the time”. Research results asserted that the effectiveness of construction technologies used in residential projects relies on their ability to improve the management of essential construction operations and provide concrete advantages to homeowners. By implementing advanced construction technologies in the residential sector, there is a possibility of transforming the way we strategize, construct, and maintain our homes, thus making them better. Full article
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