Developing a Sustainability and Resilience Monitoring Scheme for Infrastructure Projects Using Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2022
ABSTRACT
The United Nations (UN) has led the effort to promote sustainability and identified resilience as a key to catalyze the progress of the triple bottom line. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were developed to provide an implementation guideline for societies through an integrated sustainable and resilient path. Comprehensive infrastructure rating systems like Envision, CEEQUAL, and IS (AGIC) provide a good sustainability and resilience assessment platform. This research paper proposes a sustainability and resilience monitoring scheme using SDGs for global adoption. It elaborately analyzes the credits under the three comprehensive rating systems using content analysis and connects the credits under Envision and CEEQUAL to the existing SDGs. Alignment with the global SDGs is essential to ensure that the infrastructure projects are following the pre-defined global goals. The outcome of this research can help to align the infrastructure projects with the global policies and SDGs and celebrate the exemplar projects, which have an elevated performance.
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