Materials Selection for Sustainability in the Built Environment

Materials Selection for Sustainability in the Built Environment: Environmental, Social and Economic Aspects presents the current state-of-the-art when it comes to the decision-making process for choosing construction materials to deliver sustainable construction projects. Aspects covered include the science of enhanced decision-making via operational research and machine learning techniques and how this can be implemented in various disciplines such as architecture, engineering, and construction. To this end, the book discusses environmental, economic, and social aspects in assessing construction materials and presents different tools and methods that can benefit and facilitate this process. It reviews previous publications on construction material selection and presents essential discussion about the role professionals, researchers, contractors, and governments play in making more sustainable decisions about the built environment. Presents a life-cycle management-based, systematic, and integrated approach for sustainable construction materials selection Discusses the impact of materials selection covering every aspect of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic aspects) Looks at the concept of the circular economy Presents case studies on decision making methods in combination with life cycle sustainability assessment