Design-Build Contractor Selection for Public Sustainable Buildings

Sustainable design in public housing

Introduction Public Housing in Hong Kong has significantly shaped our built environment and has provided over 900,000 public housing units, accommodating nearly half of the population. The move of public housing towards sustainable design is therefore a challenging task. Environmental concern is nothing new for the Hong Kong Housing Authority and environmentally friendly practice is an importan...

A new approach for sustainable supplier selection

Recently, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has become one of the important subjects in the industry and academia. Supplier selection, as a strategic decision, plays a significant role in SSCM. Researchers use different multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods to evaluate and select sustainable suppliers. In the previous studies, evaluation is solely based on the desirable feature...

Performance Comparison of Design-Build and Construction Manager/General Contractor Highway Projects

Rainwater Management in Compliance With Sustainable Design of Buildings

Continuous growth of population and consequent growing need for drinking water is a global problem. Effective use of rainwater for for toilet flushing, laundry, gardening or washing thus saving about 50% of drink water. Overall, urban drainage presents a classic set of modern environmental challenges: the need for cost-effective and socially acceptable technical improvements in existing systems...

Comparative analysis of design/build and design/bid/build project delivery systems in Lebanon

Design/bid/build and design/build are two principal project delivery systems used worldwide. The performance of each project may differ with the type of procurement system used. This study has two aims: firstly, to assess and compare the performance of design/bid/build and design/build projects in Lebanon; secondly, to compare the results with the performance of equivalent systems in the Far Ea...