Abstract
The concept of sustainability has been expanding to all areas of economic activity, including construction engineering. Construction engineering is a complex discipline that involves designing, planning, constructing and managing infrastructures. In this Special Issue, 27 selected and peer-reviewed papers contribute to sustainable construction by offering technological, economic, social and environmental benefits through a variety of methodologies and tools, including fundamental decision-making models and methods as well as advanced multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods and techniques. The papers are mainly concentrated in five areas: Sustainable architecture; construction/reconstruction technology and sustainable construction materials; construction economics, including investments, supply, contracting and costs calculation; infrastructure planning and assessment; project risk perception, analysis and assessment, with an emphasis on sustainability.
Highlights
The concept of sustainability has been increasingly applied in construction engineering.Construction engineering involves all stages of the life cycle of building, including the design of a building or structure, construction planning and management, construction works, maintenance and the rehabilitation of buildings or infrastructure objects.A large number of alternative solutions must be analyzed to obtain the most effective and sustainable decisions in the life cycle of building
Sustainable decision-making in construction engineering can be supported by fundamental models or modern multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques
A comprehensive review was prepared in 2014 [9], number of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) applications in construction was 5.5 times higher in the same period [8]. These presenting an overview of popular MCDM techniques and their applications for construction findings confirm a great potential for the research of sustainable decision-making in construction problems
Summary
The concept of sustainability has been increasingly applied in construction engineering. A comprehensive review was prepared in 2014 [9], number of MCDM applications in construction was 5.5 times higher in the same period [8] These presenting an overview of popular MCDM techniques and their applications for construction findings confirm a great potential for the research of sustainable decision-making in construction problems. A great amount of attention papers devoted to MCDM or HMCDM applications for sustainable development problems are is devoted to risk assessment, or dealing with other uncertainties in construction engineering, by worth mentioning: Making sustainable decisions in architectural and engineering design [14,15]; applying mathematical models and methods [20].
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