Editorial: Breaking the mold, circular construction for a greener and more efficient built environment

Editorial: Innovation and lean practices for sustainable construction project management; emerging technologies, strategies and challenges

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The construction sector, representing a significant portion of the global economy, has been pivotal in delivering successful complex projects like skyscrapers and undersea tunnels (McKinsey, 2020). Despite its scale and achievements, the industry has struggled with limited productivity gains and inefficiencies, including frequent cost and time overruns and a considerable environmental impact due to high resource and energy consumption (Rodriguez Trejo et al, 2024;Sheikhkhoshkar et al, 2023). Over the previous decades, many strategies, innovations, technologies, methodologies and tools have been developed and applied to address these challenges.

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