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Construction Innovation, 2020
Purpose The change in climate and depletion of natural resources because of the harmful emissions from different materials becomes a main issue for the globe. Some of the developed and developing countries have focused on this issue and performed research to provide a solution.
Muhammad Waseem Khan, Yousaf Ali
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Purpose The change in climate and depletion of natural resources because of the harmful emissions from different materials becomes a main issue for the globe. Some of the developed and developing countries have focused on this issue and performed research to provide a solution.
Muhammad Waseem Khan, Yousaf Ali
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Sustainable Construction Materials
2013This chapter identifies the means by which construction materials can be evaluated with respect to their sustainability. It identifies the key issues that impact on the sustainability of construction materials and the methodologies commonly used to assess them.
Miller, Andrew, Ip, Kenneth
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Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Construction [PDF]
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2002 Sustainable construction has developed in the past few decades in the Netherlands to a mature subject of policy, research, and innovation. In the technological field the opportunities for sustainable construction seem to be unlimited. In practice, in the Netherlands, measures to give concrete form to sustainable construction are only scantily applied.
Ellen M van Bueren, Hugo Priemus
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Sustainability in Construction
2017The world is moving towards sustainable development and the construction sector is not being left behind because it plays a vital role in the development and economy growth of any country. However, construction processes have evolved over the years owing to several factors such as constant changes in the demands of stakeholders who are mostly clients ...
Ayodeji E. Oke, Clinton O. Aigbavboa
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Assessment of sustainable construction in Lebanon
Gerontechnology, 2012Purpose One of the most critical contemporary issues is achieving and maintaining sustainable development, adapting the use of natural resources to provide for the needs of our rising populations without threatening the survival and quality of life for future generations.
Awwad, Rita, El Khoury, Karim
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Construction and Sustainability
2016Construction, rehabilitation, operation, and maintenance of the built environment consume vast amounts of natural resources and energy. The civil engineering profession and construction industry recognizes that sustainability is a major concern for future development, particularly with rapid growth in countries such as China, India, and Brazil among ...
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Sustainable construction in rural Guatemala
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2011Waste management is a significant problem in Guatemala, as elsewhere in the developing world. The inappropriate disposal of solid waste produces pollution and places the environment and human health at risk. Environmental risk factors, including inadequate disposal of solid waste, are implicated in 25-30% of disease worldwide with children bearing a ...
Ericka K, Temple, Elizabeth, Rose
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Sustainable management of construction labour
The 25th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction. ISARC-2008, 2008The construction industry of Estonia has experienced a period of economic growth which has started to turn down for now and the output forecasts state that this recess will continue. While the availability of unskilled workforce will be growing, the lack of high quality skills in the labour market is becoming even more acute when, after joining EU ...
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Industrialisation for sustainable construction
2010Sustainable construction (SuCo), which genesis dates in the early 1990’s, advocates the creation and operation of a quality and healthy built environment based on resource efficiency, life cycle economics and ecological principles. (Kibert, 2003). Currently the Construction Industry does not meet all these principles.
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