Built environment sustainability: what’s new and what’s next?

Abstract

[...]this special issue provides a much-needed platform for bringing together the innovative, up-to-date research on built environment sustainability with the aim of shedding light and amalgamating our understanding on “what’s new and what’s next” in this area. The proposed taxonomy includes definitions and classifications for transportation activities, transportation waste events, transportation waste causes and transportation waste consequences. [...]the paper makes a useful contribution that can be utilised to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of construction by better controlling the material flows and reducing construction times. [...]many have raised the need for including culture as a fourth dimension in the sustainable development model (Opoku et al., 2015). [...]the tenth and final paper of this special issue by Samaraweera, Senaratne and Sandanayake explore the nature of project cultures in the public-sector construction projects in Sri Lanka.