scholarly journals Guidance and Recommendations for Sustainable Management of a Construction Project

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 409-413
Author(s):  
Prof. Naheed B Mir Mumtaz Ali
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Construction Site

Sustainability in construction helps to minimize the consequences of material, Social and pollution factor and stakeholders on the construction site. It also helps to prepare the strategies and methods to follow throughout the given timeline of the project. The Sustainable construction management plan (SCMP) also aid to define the potential amenity disturbance during construction with allusion to project scale. SCMP of any project characterized on the following four main phases: Achieving Sustainable parameters through Architectural design of the building; Material selection and its impact factors on built environment; Type of Project (New/Refurbishment/Demolition) and on-site measurements accordingly; Sustainable delivery action. Nevertheless, the sustainable construction and building materials, both combinations used in the common planning procedure for handling the construction on site in order to reduce the waste and environmental impact with the sophisticated methodologies. Establishing the well manageable goals, re-organizing the building layout (in refurbishment case), thermal comfort, cost management and minimization, minimum environmental impact on site and surroundings are immense challenges faced while preparing and acting the SCMP on construction site. This research paper will help to understand the construction management plan guidelines and recommendations of the construction site where the condition of refurbishment considered and Sustainability as a primary objective.

Sustainable Construction - Environmental Impacts Assessment of Architectural Elements and Building Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 77-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Moňoková ◽  
Silvia Vilčeková
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Ozone Formation Potential ◽  
Environmental Technologies

Increasing concerns about negative environmental impacts of building structures call for higher demands on the design of environmental friendly buildings. This article is aimed at assessing the overall environmental impact of buildings throughout its life cycle as well as on environmental impact of all building materials and building services for single-family homes. This analysis examines the role of utilized green environmental technologies for the following selected impact categories: GWP - global warming potential, EP - eutrophication potential, AP - acidification potential POCP and photochemical ozone formation potential expressed in kg CO2eq, PO43-eq, SO2eq and ethylene within the “Cradle to gate with options” boundary. The LCA assessment methodology and eToolLCD software have been used to model the effects of houses’ life cycle.

scholarly journals Kesesuaian Kurikulum Program Studi Pendidikan Teknik Bangunan Universitas Negeri Jakarta Dilihat dari Kompetensi Kerja Berdasarkan Standar Kompetensi Kerja Nasional Indonesia (SKKNI) Sektor Jasa Konstruksi

Jurnal PenSil ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Dyone Septianis Herlambang ◽  
R Eka Murtinugraha ◽  
Gina Bachtiar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Soil Mechanics ◽  
State University ◽  
Test Materials ◽  
Building Engineering ◽  
Course Syllabus

The Objectives of this study to determine the suitability of the curriculumpercentage Building Technical Education Program Studies, State University ofJakarta seen from the competence requirements of construction work in theworld of work. Where the research conducted in the Department of CivilEngineering, State University of Jakarta. The method used is the method ofobservation.The data used in this study is SKKNI of position Young ExpertsImplementing Structure, Young Experts Construction Management, SkilledConstruction Supervisors, and young Experts Quantity Surveyor. Data used forthe course syllabus related to the job, the Construction Management, Scienceof Building Materials, Health and Safety, Practice of Soil Mechanics, BudgetPlan, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Practice Test Materials. Dataprocessing is done by creating a checklist tables and calculation of thepercentage.Results of this study are subject Construction Management 50%according, Science of Buiding Materials 92,85% according, Health and Safety28,57% according, Practice of Soil Mechanics 92,85% according, Budget Plan85,71% according, Environmental Impact Assessment 14,28% according, andPractice Test Materials 85,71% according. There is congruence between theEducation Program Building Engineering curriculum, State University of Jakartawith SKKNI. Of 7 subjects who reviewed syllabus, 4 course syllabus is inaccordance with SKKNI, 2 course syllabus is quite in accordance with SKKNI,and 1 course syllabus is not in accordance with SKKNI

scholarly journals Coherent Investigation on a Smart Kinetic Wooden Façade Based on Material Passport Concepts and Environmental Profile Inquiry

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 3771
Author(s):  
Amjad Almusaed ◽  
Ibrahim Yitmen ◽  
Asaad Almsaad ◽  
İlknur Akiner ◽  
Muhammed Ernur Akiner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Renewable Materials ◽  
Operating Life ◽  
Environmental Selection ◽  
Environmental Profile

Wood is one of the most fully renewable building materials, so wood instead of non-renewable materials produced from organic energy sources significantly reduces the environmental impact. Construction products can be replenished at the end of their working life and their elements and components deconstructed in a closed-loop manner to act as a material for potential construction. Materials passports (MPs) are instruments for incorporating circular economy principles (CEP) into structures. Material passports (MPs) consider all the building’s life cycle (BLC) steps to ensure that it can be reused and transformed several times. The number of reuse times and the operating life of the commodity greatly influence the environmental effects incorporated. For a new generation of buildings, the developing of an elegant kinetic wooden façade has become a necessity. It represents a multidisciplinary region with different climatic, fiscal, constructional materials, equipment, and programs, and ecology-influencing design processes and decisions. Based on an overview of the material’s environmental profile (MEP) and material passport (MP) definition in the design phase, this article attempts to establish and formulate an analytical analysis of the wood selection process used to produce a kinetic façade. The paper will analyze the importance of environmentally sustainable construction and a harmonious architectural environment to reduce harmful human intervention on the environment. It will examine the use of wooden panels on buildings’ façades as one solution to building impact on the environment. It will show the features of the formation of the wooden exterior of the building. It will also examine modern architecture that enters into a dialogue with the environment, giving unique flexibility to adapt a building. The study finds that new buildings can be easily created today. The concept of building materials passport and the environmental selection of the kinetic wooden façade can be incorporated into the building design process. This will improve the economic and environmental impact of the building on human life.

Tectonic Research of Sustainable Building Materials Based on Regional Perspective - Taking Wuyishan City for Example

2013 ◽  
Vol 689 ◽  
pp. 407-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Hui Chen ◽  
Li Ma ◽  
Qiu Hua Guo
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Construction Design ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Selection Principles ◽  
Local Construction ◽  
Local Materials ◽  
Sustainable Building Materials

Currently, in pursuit of sustainable construction techniques and materials properties, the construction design of Wuyishan neglects the problem of its local materials and tectonic of material.Through sampling and analyzing, the sustainable building material selection principles have been given in this paper. Moreover, we also consider the geographical characteristics and natural ecological elements of Wuyishan. Meanwhile, some sustainable building materials with local characteristics of Wuyishan are selected. New tectonic methods for local construction building materials are explored.

scholarly journals Application of Green Building Materials and Multi-objective Energy-Saving Optimization Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-308
Author(s):  
Zhaoran Liu ◽  
An Guo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Optimization Design ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Material Optimization ◽  
Green Building Materials

Green building materials have brought fundamental changes to the traditional construction methods, enabling better environmental protection and energy-saving performance of the buildings. However, due to the various material types and the large property differences, until now there isn’t a uniform evaluation index system (EIS) for green building materials, the existing studies on the green-level evaluation of green building materials during production and use are insufficient, and the research on energy-saving design is just getting started. For this reason, this paper attempted to launch a research on the multi-objective energy-saving optimization design of buildings based on the application of green building materials. First, the quantification method for the environmental impact factors of green building materials was elaborated, and the intervals and standards of the quantification evaluation were given; then, a green building material optimization selection model was constructed, and a multi-objective energy-saving optimization algorithm was proposed; at last, experimental results gave the green levels of a few candidate green building materials and the scores of the environmental impact factors, which had verified the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

scholarly journals Model for the Sustainable Material Selection by Applying Integrated Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory and Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10438
Author(s):  
Seyed Morteza Hatefi ◽  
Hamideh Asadi ◽  
Gholamreza Shams ◽  
Jolanta Tamošaitienė ◽  
Zenonas Turskis
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Evidence Theory ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Final Score ◽  
Sustainable Materials ◽  
Selection Of

The construction industry is a vital part of the modern economic system. Construction work often has significant negative impacts on the environment and sustainable economic development, such as degradation of the environment, depletion of resources, and waste generation. Therefore, environmental concerns must be taken into account when evaluating and making decisions in the construction industry. In this regard, sustainable construction is considered as the best way to avoid resource depletion and address environmental concerns. Selection of sustainable building materials is an important strategy in sustainable construction that plays an important role in the design and construction phase of buildings. The assessment of experts is one of the most important steps in the material selection process, and their subjective judgment can lead to unpredictable uncertainty. The existing methods cannot effectively demonstrate and address uncertainty. This paper proposes an integrated Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of evidence and the ARAS method for selecting sustainable materials under uncertainty. The Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory is a relatively new and appropriate tool for substantiating decisions when information is nonspecific, ambiguous, or conflicting. The Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) method has many advantages to deal with MCDM problems with non-commensurable and even conflicting criteria and to obtain the priority of alternatives based on the utility function. The proposed method converts experts’ opinions into the basic probability assignments for real alternatives, which are suitable for DS evidence theory. It uses the ARAS method to obtain final estimation results. Finally, a real case study identifying the priority of using five possible alternative building materials demonstrates the usefulness of the proposed approach in addressing the challenges of sustainable construction. Four main criteria including economic, social, environmental, and technical criteria and 25 sub-criteria were considered for the selection of sustainable materials. The specific case study using the proposed method reveals that the weight of economic, socio-cultural, environmental, and technical criteria are equal to 0.327, 0.209, 0.241, and 0.221, respectively. Based on these results, economic and environmental criteria are determined as the most important criteria. The results of applying the proposed method reveal that aluminum siding with a final score of 0.538, clay brick with a score of 0.494, and stone façade with a final score of 0.482 are determined as the best alternatives in terms of sustainability.

Research on the Process and Types of the Construction Projects

2014 ◽  
Vol 501-504 ◽  
pp. 2664-2667
Author(s):  
Hai Xie ◽  
Xuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Scale Construction ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Engineering Construction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Successful Execution

In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking. Normally, the job is managed by a project manager, and supervised by a construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or project architect. For the successful execution of a project, effective planning is essential. Those involved with the design and execution of the infrastructure in question must consider the environmental impact of the job, the successful scheduling, budgeting, construction site safety, availability of building materials, logistics, and inconvenience to the public caused by construction delays and bidding.

scholarly journals The Development of a Decision Support Model for Eco-Friendly Material Selection in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh-Duc Pham ◽  
Quang Trung Nguyen ◽  
Duc Long Luong ◽  
Quynh Chau Truong
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Decision Support Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Total Labor ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, the awareness of sustainable construction has increasingly risen in countries around the world, with the main goal being to avoid depleting energy resources and raw materials and to greatly reduce carbon emissions. Therefore, the selection of eco-friendly building materials becomes a difficult task and choosing the best construction strategy is a complicated process. Most of the studies of the building material selection often focus on optimizing material-related green building scores with budget constraints based on the environmental impacts of those materials. However, these studies do not pay attention to the impact of sustainable materials on two important aspects of a project: The initial investment cost and the total labor-working days. Hence, this study developed a model that optimizes a material mix for buildings considering the building budget, total labor-working days, and material-related green building scores. A case study in Vietnam was conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. This proposed model provides a guidance for decision-makers in selecting approximate materials for buildings toward sustainability.

scholarly journals Environmental Impact of Textile Reinforced Concrete Facades Compared to Conventional Solutions—LCA Case Study

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 3194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenka Laiblová ◽  
Jan Pešta ◽  
Anuj Kumar ◽  
Petr Hájek ◽  
Ctislav Fiala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Textile Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Building Site ◽  
Photochemical Oxidant ◽  
Glass Carbon

Pitch-faced concrete is becoming a very popular element of modern architecture in the 21st century. In particular, the demand for concrete facades is increasing globally. On the other hand, climate change, environmental degradation, and limited resources are motivations for sustainable building materials. The construction industry is one the highest emitters of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, in which concrete plays a major role. Thus, reduction in the volume of concrete consumption is essential to control greenhouse gases. One approach to this problem is to use textile reinforced concrete (TRC). The main aim of the present study was to compare the subtle TRC facade made of three different types of technical textile rovings (glass, carbon, and basalt) with ordinary facades reinforced by steel reinforcement (ORC). The goal was to compare the basic environmental impact potential according to product category rules (PCR) for concrete structures. The functional unit was defined as an experimental facade with an area of 60 m2 and a 100-year lifespan. Inventory data were elaborated for concrete, steel, and textile fiber production; the building site; service life; demolition; and final disposal. The main life cycle assessment (LCA) parameters were global warming potential (GWP), ozone depletion (ODP), acidification (AP), eutrophication (EP), abiotic depletion (ADP), and photochemical oxidant creation (POCP). All the data used in the work were related to Czech Republic. Textile reinforced concrete facades appeared to be more environmentally friendly in four of six impact categories by an average of 30%. The results of the present study revealed that, in comparison to ORC, TRC has a lower environmental impact for the given conditions and thus good potential for use in sustainable construction.

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