Knowledge management of sustainable construction processes
(2020) World Sustainable Built Environment - Beyond 2020, WSBE 2020 In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 588.- Abstract
As the building construction industry accounts for a large part of the ecological burden, sustainable construction processes are very important for achieving sustainable communities. Construction is often a linear process, where different actors act at different stages of the process. In this process there are critical borderlines where the information is to be transferred from one actor to another. Over the years, the construction industry has developed a well-functioning and standardized arrangement for how this happens. However, this has proven to be problematic when sustainability is to be introduced in construction projects. Sustainability goals can often be perceived as diffuse and difficult to interpret. Different actors with... (More)
As the building construction industry accounts for a large part of the ecological burden, sustainable construction processes are very important for achieving sustainable communities. Construction is often a linear process, where different actors act at different stages of the process. In this process there are critical borderlines where the information is to be transferred from one actor to another. Over the years, the construction industry has developed a well-functioning and standardized arrangement for how this happens. However, this has proven to be problematic when sustainability is to be introduced in construction projects. Sustainability goals can often be perceived as diffuse and difficult to interpret. Different actors with different values and knowledge level regarding sustainability also interpret the goals differently. A common way is to set environmental goals as checklists with criteria to be met. In this process, it is common for certain aspects to be sub-optimized while other important aspects fall outside the scope. It is therefore very important to simplify the sustainability parameters without sacrificing complexity. The goals must be clearly formulated initially and followed up continuously throughout the process. The purpose of this paper is to study and analyze good examples of sustainable construction processes with regard to clear goal formulation and continuous follow-up. The result end up in a proposal for a model for knowledge management of sustainable construction processes.
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- author
- Jonasson, Jonas ; Mikaelsson, Lars Åke and Persson, Urban LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-11-20
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- WSBE 20 - World Sustainable Built Environment - Beyond2020 2-4 November 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden
- series title
- IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
- volume
- 588
- article number
- 022030
- edition
- 2
- conference name
- World Sustainable Built Environment - Beyond 2020, WSBE 2020
- conference location
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2020-11-02 - 2020-11-04
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85097200847
- ISSN
- 1755-1307
- DOI
- 10.1088/1755-1315/588/2/022030
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 6d395416-ad3c-4226-9e87-c75c3a75c176
- date added to LUP
- 2020-12-15 11:32:54
- date last changed
- 2022-04-26 22:31:40
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