Special issue of Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM
The Construction Industry as a Net-Zero Enabler: Driving Circular Economy and Sustainability through Innovation and Change Management
This Special Issue intends to bring multiple perspectives and applications of circular construction economy principles and protocols under one umbrella with a well-defined focus. The Special Issue is expected to generate and pollinate synergies across various shades of scholarly and technical opinions on the circular construction economy. It is expected to serve as the timely and very effective platform that the construction industry requires to deliver novel solutions that can deepen its capacity for circular economy and sustainability.
Details of the call for papers are available here from the BEPAM website.
Objectives of the special issue
This Special Issue intends to inspire authors to develop scholarly articles that address the following:
- To evaluate how circular economy model(s) could assist the construction industry to establish a greener value chain by transforming traditional business models into compliant models.
- To evaluate sustainable financing initiatives that are appropriate to allow Built Environment stakeholders to transform the ‘finance’ and ‘operations’ cycles of construction businesses in harmony.
- To investigate theoretical and practical frameworks that assist project developers and their supply chain to become more competitive, and enhance stakeholder awareness so that parties contribute to ESG and SDG objectives.
- To propose and evaluate emerging project and asset information requirements due to change of organisational information requirements by project owners and sponsors to fulfil net-zero compliance.
- To discuss the applicability of disruptive technologies and processes to fulfil project and asset information requirements by the supply chain (in association with objective 4).
- To promote methodologies that can assist built environment researchers to create and develop novel solutions that can transform the construction industry to become a net-zero enabler as well as accelerate applications of circular economy and sustainability within the industry.
Anticipated themes
The following is an indicative non-exhaustive list of anticipated sub-themes that authors could address in this Special Issue, all being in the context of the main theme:
- Transforming liner construction business models to a circular economy
- Opportunities for, and barriers to, greener construction value chains
- Sustainable financing initiatives in the built environment
- Addressing the challenge of triple-Ps (Profit, Plant and People) in planning, designing and operations
- Circular built environment
- Climate action in the built environment
- Sustainable cities and communities
- Sustainable operation and management of facilities
- Green building systems
- Disruptive technologies and associated enablers of greener value chain
- Waste management
- Clean and affordable energy
- Responsible consumption and production
- Disaster resilient built environment
- Parentship to achieve sustainable goals
- Design science methodology
- Social costs of circular economy
The deadline for submissions is 14th July 2023, and further information on the call for papers are available here from the BEPAM website.
