Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 2 Issue 2

A review of building/infrastructure sustainability reporting tools (SRTs)

Renard Y. J. Siew, Maria C. A. Balatbat, David G. Carmichael

Buildings/infrastructure are recognised to have a significant impact on the environment and the community, and hence there is pressure on industry practitioners to incorporate…

How does flexible design promote resource efficiency for housing? A study of Khulna, Bangladesh

Tapan Kumar Dhar, Md. Sk. Maruf Hossain, Khan Rubayet Rahaman

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance and significance of design strategies to enhance flexibility as an in-built design concept of residential building in…

ICT-enabled energy efficiency – a lens onto practices of other sectors

Farid Fouchal, Keith Ellis, Tarek Hassan, Steven Firth

The potential and opportunity offered by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enable Energy Efficient (EE) viable operations has been thoroughly laboured with…

Environmentally driven technical innovation by Australian construction SMEs

Mary Hardie, Jonathon Allen, Graeme Newell

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether technical innovations by construction industry small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with an environmental focus, require…

Climate change adaptation : A decision support framework to encourage environmentally responsible behaviour

Carolyn S. Hayles, Moira Dean, Sarah A. Lappin, Jane E. McCullough

In this paper, the authors present the Awareness Behaviour Intervention Action (ABIA) framework, a new system developed by them to support environmentally responsible behaviour…

Editorial

Jay Yang