Sustainability in Construction Engineering

The concept of sustainability has been expanding to all areas of economic activity including construction. The Special Issue Sustainability in Construction Engineering provided a possibility for researchers to disseminate their new ideas and findings related to sustainable decisions in construction engineering as a complex discipline that involves designing planning construction and management of infrastructures. The topics raised interest of researchers all over the world and the current Special Issue received a great number of submissions from different institutions countries and continents. In this Special Issue Reprint 27 selected and peer-reviewed papers contribute to sustainable construction by offering technological economic social and environmental benefits through a variety of methodologies and tools including fundamental decision-making models and methods as well as advanced multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods and techniques that proved to be very suitable for sustainability assessment. The papers are mainly concentrated in five areas: sustainable architecture; construction/reconstruction technology and sustainable construction materials; construction economics including investments supply contracting and costs calculation; infrastructure planning and assessment; project risk perception analysis and assessment with emphasis on sustainability. Due to its broad scope the Special Issue Reprint expects to attract a large interest from the research community.