Improving organisational resilience to disaster events: an FM perspective

Background and aim - Improving the resilience of business organisations and critical infrastructure providers to disaster events is a major challenge facing many European organisations. Recent floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and earthquakes in Iceland, Italy, Romania and Greece have demonstrated the need for organisations to adopt...

Business models for building material circularity: Learnings from frontrunner

One of the expected key outcomes of the Horizon 2020 BAMB (Buildings As Material Banks) project is new business models for material circularity. The team has interviewed four “frontrunner” cases which have pioneered in incorporating elements of building circularity. The study included well-known cases such as the new Venlo city hall (the...

Can Data from BIMs be Used as Input for a 3D Cadastre?

Much work has already been done on how a 3D Cadastre should best be developed. An inclusive information model, the Land Administration Model (LADM ISO 19152) has been developed to provide an international framework for how this can best be done. While this generic framework encompasses a wide range of eventualities, it does not prescribe the...

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Managing of construction-related business in environment-ally sustainable ways - a focused review of 62 concepts

The on-going literature review has revealed a platform of the 62 construction-related business management (BM) concepts, published mainly via the journals between the years 1990-2009. The aim of this paper is to enhance the managing of construction-related businesses in highly environmentally sustainable ways. A focused review resulted in the...

Advancement of sustainable development, contracting, design, and supply business vis-a-vis construction markets

The background involves the multiplication of Porter's (1980) five forces framework and the prior design of the 8-arena framework for capturing complexity of managing businesses within each of hundreds of (inter)national construction markets. In turn, the aim of this theoretical paper is to advance environmental sustainability as part of...

Driving sustainable innovation in construction companies

By adopting a theoretical framework from strategic niche management research (SNM) this paper presents an analysis of the innovation system of the Danish Construction industry. Theories within SNM look upon innovation in a sector as a socio-technical phenomenon and identify three levels of socio-technical interaction within which sectorial...

Sustainable education at the Finnish universities of applied sciences: Sustainability focused Master Degree Program at Lahti University of Applied Sciences

The purpose of the paper is to introduce the sustainability focused Master Degree Program in International Business Management at the Faculty of Business Studies, Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland. As background information, there is a short overview to the sustainability and corporate social responsibility issues as a part of...

Towards a conceptual framework of business models for sustainability

Theorists and practitioners highlight the importance of business for progress in sustainable consumption and production (SCP). In this context business models are discussed as meta factors that can support the adoption of cleaner products and processes, sustainable supply chains and further contributions towards SCP. The article is about...

The techno-entrepeneur of the future: Perspectives and practices

Present sustainability problems require a new type of techno-entrepreneurship, in which traditional entrepreneurial qualities are combined with new capabilities related to the role, mission and responsibilities of future engineers. There are two sources of these new capabilities: Innovation Systems of which engineer-entrepreneurs are architects...

Sustainable innovation. In search for the value added configuration

The concept of sustainable innovation goes beyond realizing technical solutions. For innovation to be effective, knowledge that is developed during the innovating activity requires to be dispersed to assure benefit of the innovation in production, use, maintenance and disposal. Actually doing so might jeopardize an organization’s competitive...

Play it forward: A Game-based tool for Sustainable Product and Business Model Innovation in the Fuzzy Front End

Dealing with sustainability in the fuzzy front end of innovation is complex and often hard. There are a number of tools available to guide designers, engineers and managers in the design process after the specifications of the product or service are already set, but methods supporting goal finding for sustainable innovations are rare (Hassi et...

FOCISS: A framework for developing a sustainable buisiness strategy

Most companies find it difficult to integrate sustainability in their business strategy in such way that it will „pay off?. Sustainability with its opportunities and challenges are not understood in its real meaning for their business. A major factor is that a distinction in essential and non-essential (and even irrelevant) issues for the core...

The business model chemical leasing as a tool for process, environmental, and occupational health and safety improvements

The future in chemical consumption, without any doubt, belongs to business models which involve intensive dialog, cooperation and pooling of the knowledge and experiences of users and producers. Sustainability goals of producers should include, among others, expansion of the sustainability of their products and services to customers to help them...