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Sustainable Construction Management: History
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Sustainable construction management is the integrated planning, coordination, and control of construction project resources, materials, processes, and supply chains such that the environmental, social, and economic burdens of the built asset are minimized across its entire life cycle while maintaining functional and economic viability. The concept extends conventional project management beyond cost, schedule, and quality triple-bottom-line objectives to include lifecycle assessment criteria covering embodied carbon, material depletion, construction waste, indoor environmental quality, and workforce equity [1]. The management framework establishes operational principles—reduce, reuse, recycle, and source responsibly—that govern material selection, procurement, on-site construction methods, and site logistics. It requires systematic tracking of material flows, environmental impacts of supply chains, and post-occupancy performance feedback to close the loop between design intent and operational reality [2]. The conceptual basis is the four-pillar model of social responsibility, economic viability, biophysical resource stewardship, and technical process integrity, which collectively define the boundary conditions within which construction management decisions must optimize trade-offs between competing sustainability objectives and project constraints [3].

  • sustainable construction
  • lifecycle assessment
  • green building
  • construction management

Construction Management and Sustainability •  Building and Construction •  Engineering •  Physical Sciences

References

  1. Kibert C.J. Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, 4th ed.; Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2016. ISBN: 1119055172.
  2. Amornrut Det Udomsap; Philip Hallinger; A bibliometric review of research on sustainable construction, 1994–2018. J. Clean. Prod. 2020, 254, 120073, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120073.
  3. Richard C. Hill; Paul A. Bowen; Sustainable construction: principles and a framework for attainment. Constr. Manag. Econ. 1997, 15, 223-239, 10.1080/014461997372971.
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