Purpose Establishing a more sustainable built environment is an increasing global concern
for the construction industry. Despite the intrinsic and extrinsic obstacles the stakeholders …

Developing a Circular-Economy-Based Construction Waste Minimisation Framework for Nigeria
Page 1 Developing a Circular-Economy-Based Construction Waste Minimisation Framework …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to map the cascade effects of emergencies on critical
infrastructure in a fast-growing city of a developing country. The paper specifically seeks to …

Creating a sustainable built environment is a growing concern for the construction industry
in developed and developing countries. Enormous efforts are required of stakeholders but …

Pollution prevention is a step towards obtaining a green environment, and no amount of
effort in that direction should be considered too great. To this effect, the pollution by leachate …

For buildings to meet the energy-demand in maintaining the required conditions for thermal
comfort, residents, most especially in developing-countries, are compelled to seek …

This paper's target is to increase the understanding of the lean production approach to
materials management in the Nigerian construction industry with a view to enhancing site …

ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals cannot be achieved without sustainable
practices in all spheres of development. Sustainability in the built environment sector is at …

Sustainability has been defined in various ways within the academic literature. Definitions
vary depending on the country of origin and the disciplinary focus of the author (s). Some …

The improvement of existing buildings had been argued to be a major approach in attaining
sustainability in the built environment, especially in developing countries. However …