Materials Selection for Sustainability in the Built Environment

Assed N. Haddad is a Full Professor and Head of the Construction Engineering Department at the Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has experience in civil, environmental and production Engineering. He has been guest editor for the International Journal of Construction Management, the Infrastructures Journal, and the Sustainability Journal. Prof Haddad is author of more than 250 papers in journals and peer-reviewed conferences. He has also published numerous book chapters and edited books. As a Professional Engineer, he is registered as a Civil and Safety Engineer in Brazil and has performed works in both Brazil and the USA. Ahmed WA Hammad is coordinator for the Master’s in Construction Project Management at the Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW Sydney. His research focuses on the use of technology, including Building Information Modeling (BIM) and machine-learning-based operational research (OR) methods for enhancing decision-making in construction. His past work has included novel approaches to solving OR problems in construction, including the site layout planning problem, facility location problem, the network design problem, vehicle routing problem (VRP), building and interior space layout planning, and urban planning. Dr Hammad’s expertise lies in developing Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Models, and Bi-level Programming Models, together with accompanying exact solution approaches for large scale instances. He has an extensive industry background in digital engineering, road design, construction engineering and interior design. Karoline Figueiredo holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering, both from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. She was a Visiting Researcher at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain, in 2017 and at Western Sydney University, Australia, in 2018, and in both situations, she developed research in the life cycle assessment of construction materials. She is currently a doctoral student, and her research focuses on improving the selection of construction materials to generate less environmental, social, and economic impacts. She has expertise in Sustainable Construction and has developed projects based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

• List of Contributors Table of Contents Preface Introduction The triple-bottom-line perspective and its importance for the Built Environment Importance of Material Selection to achieve sustainable construction Importance of decision-making in materials selection Employing circular economy principles to enhance sustainability in the Built Environment Standards and legal regulations regarding sustainable construction Introductory overview Assessment of concrete and cementitious materials Assessment of wood Assessment of glass Concluding overview: Advancements in Building Materials Technology Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) applied in the Built Environment Simulation tools to assist materials choice Multicriteria decision-making methods Pareto Machine learning decision-making tools Case study I: Development of laminated wood products from Eucalyptus nitens in the Chilean context Case study II: Application of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in BIM in early design stages for the selection of the structural system of a residential building in Spain Case study III: Designing sustainable timber-concrete composite floor system Case study IV: Thermal and Environmental performance assessment of opaque facade systems in the early design stage: an integrated approach Case study V: Mollusk shells to replace conventional aggregates in concrete Case study VI: Insulation materials choice in building retrofitting: The Influence of social determinants in the Spanish Context Sustainable Material Choice in Construction Projects via Mathematical Programming Concluding Remarks: Future Directions and Emerging Trends in Sustainable Material Selection for the Built Environment