Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 12 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Smart villages, rural infrastructure and sustainable development

Hemanta Doloi, Robert Crawford, Koshy Varghese

A network of circular economy villages: design guidelines for 21st century Garden Cities

Steven Liaros

The purpose is to open the possibility for a research institute, perhaps in partnership with a local council and a major developer, to bring together skills necessary to prototype…

Strategies to promote collaborative governance regime in Indian rural road maintenance

Tharun Dolla, Boeing Laishram

Effective maintenance of rural roads is an essential aspect of public infrastructure delivery. However, governments failed to upkeep the built infrastructure. Accordingly, this…

Biomass as a means of achieving rural energy self-sufficiency: a concept

Vandit Vijay, Ram Chandra, P.M.V. Subbarao

To better understand bioenergy's role in sustainable rural development and cleaner environment, it is necessary to place it in a local regional context. This paper aims to provide…

Sustainable hydroelectric power project planning under socio-economic and environmental concerns using Index based approach

Neha Chhabra Roy, N.G. Roy

This study aims to identify and gauge the sustainability indicators (SUSIs) for sustainable Hydroelectric Power (HEP) project development. It examines major SUSIs under the…

Carbon footprint evaluation of local dwellings in Bangladesh towards low carbon society

Rezuana Islam, Sajal Chowdhury, Nusrat Jannat, Pranjib Paul

Local dwellings of Bangladesh have specific environmental characteristics. These dwellings extensively use locally available materials and construction techniques. Therefore…

Possibilities of a gender-responsive infrastructure for livelihood-vulnerable women's resilience in rural-coastal Bangladesh

Md. Azharul Islam, Muntaha Marzan Shetu, Sheikh Serajul Hakim

With the simultaneous increase of natural hazards and land- and resource-vulnerable women in the rural coasts of Bangladesh, large- and medium-scale infrastructure and livelihood…

Construction sustainability of container-modular-housing in coastal regions towards resilient community

Md. Obidul Haque, Jayedi Aman, Fahim Mohammad

This paper addresses housing problems of coastal areas in Bangladesh and investigates container-modular-housing (CMH) as a potential sustainable solution that establishes a…

Impact and awareness of COVID-19 on rural communities – an empirical study of India

Varinder S. Kanwar, Hitakshi Dutta, Ishwar Dutt, Ashok Kumar, C. Prakasam, Manvi Kanwar

To study the impact, awareness and preparedness of COVID-19, a “pandemic” that has aroused the attention of the entire world because of rapid infection rates; among the targeted…

Systems based approach to a small scale dairy farm (Goshala): a case study

Vivek Radheshyam Darwai, Sachin Arvind Mandavgane, Prakash Lohia

One of the objectives of smart village is the efficient use of regional resources by local people to improve economic, social and environment conditions. Small-scale dairy farm…