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Sustainable delivery of construction projects
Published in Peter Fewings, Christian Henjewele, Construction Project Management, 2019
Peter Fewings, Christian Henjewele
The Wolstenholme Report16 reports on UK industry progress 10 years after Egan’s Rethinking Construction17 report and reflects on opportunities for further sustainability in a recessionary climate. Wolstenholme recognised the need to create business models that integrate the client with the construction process if sustainability is to be tackled effectively. Clients, contractors and designers need to create opportunities for sustainable solutions taking entrepreneurial risk. Main contractors need to move away from pushing risk down the chain to subcontractors and, instead, to sustain collaborative practice where innovation is encouraged. Clients need value-based, life cycle costing that supports sustainable innovation and reduces long-term running costs. Wolstenholme sees the BREEAM excellence rating as a starting point to sustainable delivery of buildings, but a proper understanding of the client’s business is also needed to maintain life cycle sustainability. The positive focus of sustainability has the potential for the public to connect sustainability with construction activity and its capability to generate long-term value for society and the economy.
Sources of Information on Sustainability Requirements
Published in J.K. Yates, Daniel Castro-Lacouture, Sustainability in Engineering Design and Construction, 2018
J.K. Yates, Daniel Castro-Lacouture
The topic of sustainability is an all-encompassing, broad topic, but there are areas specific to engineering design and construction operations. The focus areas directly pertaining to sustainable engineering design and construction are as follows: Compliance with government regulationsCradle-to-grave ecological costs of materials, including whether materials are reused or recycled, and reducing energy consumption during the manufacturing and transporting of materialsDeconstruction and recycling the by-products of deconstructionEffects of not considering sustainability during constructionEnvironmental footprint of structuresEnvironmental impacts of production operationsEnvironmental impact statementsGenerating less pollution or reducing the toxicity of pollutionInternational Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14000 environmental management standardsProducing less construction wasteRecycling more waste during constructionReducing noise and spatial pollutionResource efficiency including reducing energy consumption during constructionSocial and community impacts of projectsSupplier and vendor environmental and social responsibility including responsible supply chains and procurement processesSustainable engineering designsUsing renewable energy sources
A Comprehensive Appraisal of the Factors Impacting Construction Project Delivery Method Selection: A Systematic Analysis
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
QingPing Zhong, Hui Tang, Chuan Chen, Martek Igor
Sustainability is not a traditional but an emerging project objective. Most of the previous studies of sustainability of construction focus on recycling and waste reduction or sustainable construction method. As a factor to select the delivery method, it is a new area. A survey conducted by Touran in 2011 showed that most agencies interviewed had not used these concepts in the past, but it was felt that these factors would have to be considered in future projects (Touran et al. 2011). Marzouk and Elmesteckawi (2015) described sustainability as the requirements to achieve the anticipated results of the green revolution manifested in reductions in energy consumption, better health, and higher productivity for occupants. Sustainability in construction includes sustainable design and sustainable construction. The PDM integrates the design with construction and other processes to varying degrees, and the appropriate delivery method can transform the staged sustainability into the sustainability of the entire process.
The use of volcanic scoria from ‘Djoungo’ (Cameroon) as cement replacement and fine aggregate by sand substitution in mortar for masonry
Published in European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2020
Willy Hermann Juimo Tchamdjou, Toufik Cherradi, Moulay Larbi Abidi, Luiz A. Pereira-de-Oliveira
Natural river and sea sand is mostly using in mortar production. The actual requirements of sustainability in construction promote the use of materials which cause a lower environmental impact than those traditionally used (Damtoft, Lukasik, Herfort, Sorrentino, & Gartner, 2008). Natural sand mining from rivers and seashores is causing serious environmental problems in many parts of the world (Fernández-Ledesma, Jiménez, Ayuso, Corinaldesi, & Iglesias-Godino, 2016), whereas the fine fraction from volcanic scoria deposit is underutilised as a construction material.