Sustainable Construction Management in Developing Countries (original) (raw)
The Journal of Current Construction Issues. Sustainable Development in Construction was written on the basis of an increased interest in the project management in a construction industry and a recently intensified discourse about a sustainable development. A term project relates to an original undertaking which has a specific aim, clear start/finish dates and all resources are allocated to particular tasks. Project management requires a coordination of activities of all stakeholders involved in the undertaking. However, applying stakeholder inclusiveness in a project: • increases the likelihood of more engaged and satisfied stakeholders, • increases the danger of losing focus on those stakeholders who possess the most critical resources for the project’s survival and progress, • increases the danger of inducing stakeholder disappointment due to expectation escalation and impossibility of embracing conflicting requirements and wishes. The construction industry is involved in creating physical assets which are the basis of many aspects of development. On the other hand, the industry, together with the building materials industries which supply it, is one of the largest exploiters of natural resources, both mineral and biological. Its activities cause irreversible transformations of the natural environment. Moreover, it adds to the accumulation of pollutants in the atmosphere. Construction has been considered as a source of the environmental problems ranging from excessive consumption of global resources both in terms of construction and building operation to the pollution of the surrounding environment. Thus, a research on green building design and using building materials to minimize environmental impact is already very popular. However, relying on the design of a project to achieve the goal of sustainable development, or to minimize impacts through appropriate management on site, is not sufficient to handle the current problem. The aim for sustainability assessment goes even further than at the design stage of a project to consider its importance at an early stage, before any detailed design or even before a commitment is made to go ahead with a development. The main debate on how to reconcile the needs of economic growth with ecological maintenance has centered on the popular concept of sustainable development. Sustainability has been also included in a series of annual conferences organized by the UTP University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz. The second international scientific conference Civil Engineering: Present Problems, Innovative Solutions (CEPPIS) in 2016 was set out to pay attention to recent trends especially sustainable development in the construction industry. The book was written in order to present some theoretical and practical considerations, experience and results of conducted investigations in the area of project management with a special attention to a phenomenon of sustainability. A complexity of the project management against a sustainable development was described in the book. This attitude results from a need for preserving limited resources while maintaining an economic activity. It is also essential because of a necessity of protecting natural elements for the next generations. The book is addressed to the scientists connected with project management discipline as well as to those who are responsible for creating an integrity of the project with the environment. A presented matter can become a source of inspiration for the academics involved in the sustainable development in construction industry and for those who are looking for some new solutions and more eco-friendly procedures and processes of the projects. Professional project managers hired by the modern companies should be interested in the issue. Some implementations can be useful for them in order to solve their contemporary problems in real circumstances. A text of the book was divided into two parts: 1. Sustainability in business 2. Sustainability and Nature Particular chapters present studies results of the scientific research on business, construction engineering, project management and sustainability from all over the world.
NCACESD Proceedings , 2019
The term sustainability is often misunderstood predominantly to be a synonym of 'green' or close to terms such as 'environment friendly' or 'eco-friendly', whereas it seems to have a broader connotation, including sustainable communities and sustainable businesses. Sustainability broadly encompasses economic, environmental and social strands. Without sustaining the economics and socio-cultural layers of the society, environmental sustainability is highly difficult to achieve, especially in developing countries. Here we shall revisit the central issues that shape up the agenda of sustainable construction. Sustainable development In 1950's and 1960's i.e. during the post world war period, development strategies were majorly focused on less developed countries or developing countries. Here, the development was primarily concerned with economic growth and its distribution over a period of time. This period took major strategically reference from Rostow's model of stages of economic growth. This 5 stage model, focussed on assisting the developing countries through aid and technology transfer to develop the manufacturing and industrial sector.
Perspective around Sustainability in Civil Construction
The concept of sustainability is characterized as a condition where there is a desire to make available to society and future generations the same resources that are currently being appreciated, considering the integration of economic, cultural and especially environmental aspects, in order to preserve these environmental resources, respecting their production and consumption limits, to prevent compromising negatively. The objective of this article is to demonstrate the viability of sustainable proposals in the field of civil construction and the contributions of this practice to the conservation of the environment and the availability of resources for other generations. A systematic literature review study was carried out, using articles published between 2010 and 2020, covering a period of ten years, in order to comprise current research and contemporary information's around trends and perspectives on sustainability in civil construction. For the construction of this article were used Google academics and Scielo (Scientific Electronic Library Online) databases from pre-selected authors. Eight scientific articles were gathered from the search in the databases, which 2 were excluded for being outside the predetermined period for the research, 1 was duplicated, 1 was eliminated for presenting the topic outside the specified by this project, 1 was excluded after the analysis of results and discussions, therefore leaving only 3 articles for discussion. The most important way to carry out a sustainable construction is to determine measures and factors that can stipulate the concepts defined as ecologically viable for civil construction. The practices raised and determined for these projects addressed the thermal comfort with the use of the green roof cover, the renewable electricity through photovoltaic plates, the use of water from the cistern, among others.
Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management
Sustainability
The Special Issue covers sustainability as an emerging requirement in the fields of construction management, project management and engineering. We invited authors to submit their theoretical or experimental research articles that address the challenges and opportunities for sustainable construction in all its facets, including technical topics and specific operational or procedural solutions, as well as strategic approaches aimed at the project, company or industry level. Central to developments are smart technologies and sophisticated decision-making mechanisms that augment sustainable outcomes. The Special Issue was received with great interest by the research community and attracted a high number of submissions. The selection process sought to balance the inclusion of a broad representative spread of topics against research quality, with editors and reviewers settling on thirty-three articles for publication. The Guest Editors invite all participating researchers and those inter...