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    Promoting Sustainability as a Strategy to Mitigate the Effects of Economic Downturn on the Construction Industry

    TitlePromoting Sustainability as a Strategy to Mitigate the Effects of Economic Downturn on the Construction Industry
    Publication TypeCommunications in International Conferences
    Year of Publication2015
    AuthorsAshour A., Bragança, L., and Almeida, Manuela G.
    Abstract

    During the recent years followed by the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), most of
    business and industries around the globe have been hardly hit to the limit that it still struggling
    to survive, suffering from the crisis financial consequences. For instance, in the construction
    industry; many construction projects have been suspended or totally cancelled. Nevertheless,
    among this dilemma, a call has been raised to use the sustainable practices to mitigate the
    effects of the GFC on construction industry.
    For the first look, it seems that there is contradiction since the sustainable solutions are often
    associated with an increase in the initial cost, undoubtedly, the sustainable practices have many
    advantages in both economic and environment aspects, however, the question which needs to
    be addressed here is, to what extent using such sustainable practices can mitigate the negative
    effects of the economic downturn on construction industry.
    Therefore, it is a challenging argument for using such sustainable construction from its economic
    perspective, however, this paper is aiming to present the economical benefits of sustainable
    practices in construction industry, and trying to clear the doubt of the high initial costs of the
    sustainable construction through studying the life cycle benefit of green building.
    Keywords: sustainable construction, economic crisis, life cycle analysis (LCA), green buildings.

    Conference NameEURO ELECS 2015 - Latin-American and European Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Communities
    JournalProceedings of EURO ELECS 2015
    Volumevolume 3
    IssueChapter 12: Policies and strategies for a sustainable built environment
    Pagination1745-1752
    Date Published2015-07-21
    PublisherBragança, L., Yuba, A. & Alvarez, C.
    Conference LocationGuimarães, Portugal - 21-23 July, 2015
    ISBN978‐989‐96543‐8‐9
    Keywordseconomic crisis, green buildings, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Sustainable Construction
    RightsopenAccess
    Peer reviewedyes
    Statuspublished
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    About CTAC

    The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.

    Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more


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