Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 1 Issue 1

Editorial: promoting integrated development for smart and sustainable built environment

Jay Yang

This purpose of this paper is to introduce the new Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE) journal to readers by discussing the background and underlying principles of its…

Sustainable development: ignorance is fatal – what don’t we know?

Peter Brandon

The purpose of the article is to highlight areas of potential research which will provide a deeper understanding of sustainable development and allow a more structured approach to…

Towards a spatial planning framework for climate adaptation

Rob Roggema, Pavel Kabat, Andy van den Dobbelsteen

The purpose of this paper is to build a bridge between climate change adaptation and spatial planning and design. It aims to develop a spatial planning framework in which the…

Developing tools to support complex infrastructure decision‐making

Douglas Baker, Muhammad Nateque Mahmood

The rapidly changing role of capital city airports has placed demands on surrounding infrastructure. The need for infrastructure management and coordination is increasing as…

Network of buildings’ impact on indoor thermal performance

Anna Laura Pisello, Xiaoqi Xu, John E. Taylor, Franco Cotana

The development of strategies for energy efficiency optimization in buildings has become a fundamental way to reduce buildings’ environmental impact because the amount of energy…

The state of sustainability reporting in the construction sector

Jacqueline Glass

As a mechanism to make a company's strategies, actions and achievements more transparent, sustainability reporting (SR) enables companies to communicate performance, develop a…

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