Construction and Demolition Waste Management: A Way Ahead for SME's in Mumbai

Mumbai,as a rapidly growing megacity faces considerable challenges with its CDWM endeavours. This research is motivated by the unique context of the city, characterised by its highly fragmented construction industry in critical need of government interventions, to promote effective CDWM due to its fragmented, unorganised and competitive nature....

Developing a waste journey method: A qualitative research method for identifying barriers and opportunities for realizing inclusivity and circularity in a waste management process

Urbanization is putting more pressure on waste management infrastructures in cities, which could lead to “inadequate and overburdened infrastructure” according to the United Nations (United Nations Statistics Division, 2019). Because people play an important role in the performance of waste management systems, the systems should be inclusive to...

Data-Driven Decision-Making for Circular Building Design: Development of an automated decision-support framework for an improved circular design workflow

The transition to a circular economy requires reducing waste and rework in construction projects. Thereby, the evaluation of building circularity in the early design phase is of great importance. However, due to the current design workflow, such practice is hindered because there is not enough information to evaluate building circularity in...

Citizen participation in energy transition projects: A deeper look into the occurrence of participation fatigue in participation processes dealing with energy transition in the Netherlands

In 2021, many Dutch municipalities have started to transition away from fossil fuel sources towards more sustainable ones in order to achieve the goals set by the Parisian climate agreement of 2015. 2021 was also the year in which a new Omgevingswet was introduced in the Netherlands, in which citizen participation has become a very important...

A Digital Structure for Circular Reuse in the AEC industry: A study to restructure the digital processes in the AEC industry to enable building component reuse

The current built environment is facing a transition from a linear economy towards a circular economy. In this new system, the building parts of today are used to construct the buildings of tomorrow. Reusing building parts requires knowing the qualities of those materials. However, the current AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction)...

A study on the customization of the BIM Execution Plan based on project characteristics

The construction sector suffers from flat or sometimes even falling productivity rates while it is one of the least digitalized sectors. A root cause, among others, is poor information management. Recently, the ISO 19650 series have been released to offer the construction industry a guideline for the organization and digitization of information...

Semantic enrichment of design requirements using Object Type Libraries for automated verification: Towards automated requirements verification system

Success of the project depends on compliance to requirements amongst other things (Wheeler, 2003). This forms Requirements Management process an important step in the Systems Engineering life cycle. However, poor definition of requirements is an obstacle in automating the verification process. The existing solutions based on various approaches...

BIM for BREEAM-NL assessments: An implementation strategy based on BIM Maturity

As climate change concerns increase, more and more clients are aiming for higher sustainability ratings for their properties. Green building assessments are of great importance to stimulate the sustainable paradigm shift within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry. However, the current working process for green building...