Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 10 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Seeram Ramakrishna, Alfred Ngowi, Bankole Osita Awuzie

Circular cities: the case of Singapore

Sann Carrière, Ricardo Weigend Rodríguez, Peixun Pey, Francesco Pomponi, Seeram Ramakrishna

Circular economy (CE), as a new economic paradigm, has gained traction in recent years. Cities' role in driving CE forward has been perceived as being increasingly important to…

A systems thinking approach for incremental reduction of non-physical waste

Temitope Omotayo, Ayokunle Olanipekun, Lovelin Obi, Prince Boateng

Continual cost reduction of overhead costs of building projects can realign the concept of post-contract cost control towards value-driven construction projects and stakeholders’…

The future of the circular economy and the circular economy of the future

Ricardo Weigend Rodríguez, Francesco Pomponi, Ken Webster, Bernardino D'Amico

The circular economy (CE) has gained momentum in recent years as a new economic paradigm. While the CE sets a very defined vision for a sustainable future, it still operates in…

Appraisal of stakeholders' willingness to adopt construction 4.0 technologies for construction projects

Temidayo Oluwasola Osunsanmi, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, Muredini Liphadzi

Construction 4.0 technology has the capabilities for improving the design, management, operations and decision making of construction projects. Therefore, this study aimed at…

Bottle house: utilising appreciative inquiry to develop a user acceptance model

Arinola Adefila, Amal Abuzeinab, Timothy Whitehead, Muyiwa Oyinlola

This paper develops a novel user-acceptance model for circular solutions to housing design. The model has been systematically developed from a case study of an upcycled plastic…

Adoption of smart technologies and circular economy performance of buildings

Abimbola Oluwakemi Windapo, Alireza Moghayedi

This paper examines the use of intelligent technologies in buildings and whether the use of smart technologies impacts the circular economy performance of buildings in terms of…

A systematic review of BIM usage for life cycle impact assessment

Julianna Crippa, Aline M.F. Araujo, Diogo Bem, Cássia M.L. Ugaya, Sergio Scheer

This paper searches for integration methods proposed by different authors that assess the life cycle of a building using models of building information modeling (BIM) and it also…

An artefact for improving the delivery of building energy retrofit project in South Africa

Chikezirim Okorafor, Fidelis Emuze, Dillip Das, Bankole Osita Awuzie, Theo Haupt

The built environment is well known for carbon emission and its impact especially as it pertains to existing buildings. This has culminated in an increasing need for a retrofit of…