A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The rapid expansion in the construction industry worldwide has placed more pressure on the available natural resources, as the various construction activities and the services they require, increasingly draw on supplies of water and energy. The provision of these utilities and their continual maintenance activites within a building, promote human daily sustenance, and economic development generally, but the exploitation of these resources, their environmental impact, socio-economic implications, and sustainability, all necessitate proper management. Indeed, sustainability has now become the cornerstone for effective building services infrastructure and building construction management. It is against this backdrop that this study, which focuses on building services infrastructure and construction activities management, is set. The study aims to integrate the sustainability agenda in this context as a basis for achieving sustainable development goals. Increasingly, building services infrastructure processes and the interdisciplinary engineering fields cannot operate optimally without the incorporation of the sustainability agenda as a core management consideration. In pursuit of its aims, the study has employed various theoretical propositions, suitable methods, and frameworks, all aimed at addressing the sustainability issues as a way forward. The current technologies and management techniques related to building management do already offer sustainable and good quality service delivery, but the findings from this study have yielded value added contributions capable of promoting greater success in the drive for sustainability, by employing the sustainable engineering infrastructure (SEI) model, sustainability index matrix (SIM), and partial differential equation techniques. The SEI model was used in evaluating building services infrastructure characteristics within the UK and Nigeria in the study phases I– IV, and the outcomes are presented. Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costs (LCC) methods were also ...
The rapid expansion in the construction industry worldwide has placed more pressure on the available natural resources, as the various construction activities and the services they require, increasingly draw on supplies of water and energy. The provision of these utilities and their continual maintenance activites within a building, promote human daily sustenance, and economic development generally, but the exploitation of these resources, their environmental impact, socio-economic implications, and sustainability, all necessitate proper management. Indeed, sustainability has now become the cornerstone for effective building services infrastructure and building construction management. It is against this backdrop that this study, which focuses on building services infrastructure and construction activities management, is set. The study aims to integrate the sustainability agenda in this context as a basis for achieving sustainable development goals. Increasingly, building services infrastructure processes and the interdisciplinary engineering fields cannot operate optimally without the incorporation of the sustainability agenda as a core management consideration. In pursuit of its aims, the study has employed various theoretical propositions, suitable methods, and frameworks, all aimed at addressing the sustainability issues as a way forward. The current technologies and management techniques related to building management do already offer sustainable and good quality service delivery, but the findings from this study have yielded value added contributions capable of promoting greater success in the drive for sustainability, by employing the sustainable engineering infrastructure (SEI) model, sustainability index matrix (SIM), and partial differential equation techniques. The SEI model was used in evaluating building services infrastructure characteristics within the UK and Nigeria in the study phases I– IV, and the outcomes are presented. Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costs (LCC) methods were also ...
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