Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 6 Issue 1

A decision support tool to mitigate decision-making problems faced by a building design team

Natee Singhaputtangkul

There are a number of decision-making problems encountered by a building design team. This issue is apparent in assessment of building envelope materials and designs in the early…

Maintenance management system (MMS) to support facilities management at Malaysian polytechnic

Zul-Atfi Ismail

Conventional methods practiced by the Development and Facilities Management Unit (UPPF) have faced issues due to management deficiencies and incompetent staff members who were…

Constructing definitions of sustainable development

Gareth Abrahams

The purpose of this paper is to ask how two normative definitions of sustainable development identified in the Brundtland report contribute to individual definitions constructed…

Design workshops in the age of climate change: Analysis of a design workshop on drought in Flanders

Jeroen De Waegemaeker, Eva Kerselaers, Maarten Van Acker, Elke Rogge

As policy makers address the issue of climate adaptation, they are confronted with climate-specific barriers: a long-term horizon and a high degree of uncertainty. These barriers…