Knowledge and Asset Management in Sustainable Civil Engineering
1Department of Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
2Division of Research, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia
3Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Knowledge and Asset Management in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Description
Sustainability is a process that can maintain and improve our quality of life by appropriate use of available natural, economic, and social resources. With the ever-rising concern over the application of sustainability in civil engineering projects, there is a need for revisiting the process of planning, financing, and controlling. It is understood that organizations’ knowledge and asset decision-making capabilities directly influence the formation of effective policies, strategies, and tactics. To be accountable to our environment, construction project parties must be able to sustain the project life cycle associated with construction services, performance metrics, and management trade-offs. While we recognize the importance of a more professional approach that supports the decision-making and problem-solving process of infrastructure development, the principles borrowed from knowledge and asset management disciplines are not many. This special issue therefore aims at fostering the dissemination of high-quality research in methods, theories, and techniques concerning the application of knowledge and asset management in sustainable civil engineering. Research on information technology that enables knowledge and/or asset handling in sustaining infrastructure supply chain is also welcome. We invite authors to submit original (basic or applied) research and review papers. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge management models and strategies
- Constraints in knowledge resource usage in project development
- Knowledge capture and sharing issues in construction projects
- Application of knowledge management systems
- Information technology for engineering knowledge management
- Models for asset allocation in projects portfolio
- Impact of asset management on life cycle costs evaluation
- Sustainability issues in asset procurement practices
- Emerging financial management for infrastructure projects
- Asset management and maintenance for civil engineering supply chain
- Other knowledge and asset issues in project management
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