This special issue aims to identify and explore the variety of business drivers that should justify and motivate through-life sustainability of built assets, as well as the wide range of managerial implications in achieving such sustainability. The deadline for manuscript submission is 30 September 2015.
In the built environment, disparities exist between policy intentions and actual outcomes. This special issue identifies the illusions, expectations, processes, use/abuse of evidence and predictions, as well as the capabilities and capacities for delivery and assessment. Of all CIB and CIB related publications descriptions are given, including: title, type of publication (for example: proceeding, state-of-the-art annalysis or practice recommendation), year of publication, where to download a free copy (if applicable) or where to order and for what price, which CIB commission is responsible (if applicable) and a brief summary of its content.
The Publications can be accessed via:
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In principle all ever produced CIB publications are (or are being) included in the open access CIB library section of the ICONDA database as free downloadable PDF documents. This includes amongst others:
- scanned copies of hundreds of older publications
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