Given the rapid pace of population growth, urbanization and hence construction and
development, businesses within the built environment industry play a critical role in ensuring …

The potential to improve health and equity through better housing is well established. The
WHO Housing and health guidelines (HHGL) provide evidence-based recommendations for …

Under climate change impacts, the world is becoming one village. This motivated the
application of sustainability rating systems of buildings away from their origins which is …

This paper undertakes an international comparison of global sustainability tools and
examines their characteristics and differences. Most importantly, it focuses on which tools …

A proliferation of the development of building environmental assessment methods has
occurred for application within many individual countries' domestic markets. However, the …

Strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves the voluntary practice of social and
environment activities to satisfy firms' stakeholders, with the intention of generating profits …

In the 1990s, many pundits said that Quantity Surveyors were going the way of the dodo, a
prophecy which has proven to be far from accurate. In response, Duncan Cartlidge wrote the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine knowledge transfer (KT) practices in five
construction projects delivering sustainable office buildings in Germany and the UK by using …

Rapid economic growth and urbanization in developing countries lead to extensive
construction activities that generate a large amount of waste. A challenge is how to manage …

Despite the numerous benefits of sustainable construction to the climate, it also presents
several problems to the professional practice of sustainable building, including awareness …