Integrating Front-End Planning and Infrastructure Sustainability in Construction Education through Problem-Based Learning
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2022
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Education in construction and sustainable disciplines mostly focus their pedagogies on vertical structures, emphasizing the planning pedagogy on traditional reactive planning techniques instead of advanced proactive methods as Front-End Planning (FEP). FEP supports defining the project scope, aligning stakeholders, and achieving sustainability at an early stage of the project. Therefore, it is critical to prepare our future workforce to realize the tools that foster meeting sustainability goals for infrastructure projects. This research evaluated the efficacy of proactive pedagogical approaches such as Problem Based Learning (PBL) activity at a Sustainable Construction class to assess the need to integrate FEP tools and sustainability for infrastructure projects in construction education. The results indicate that the activity fostered students’ familiarity with FEP tools and encouraged teamwork for attaining sustainable infrastructure projects. The results also demonstrate that almost 96% of the students strongly believe the FEP and infrastructure sustainability are fundamental topics that need to be included in construction engineering and management curricula.
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