ABSTRACT
Smart and Resilient Infrastructure For Emerging Economies: Perspectives on Building Better is about pressing and multidimensional challenges faced in constructing resilient, sustainable, and smart infrastructure in developing countries. The 32 case studies, literature reviews, comparative analyses and systematic reviews, cover a wide range of topics, including:
- sustainable and resilient infrastructure development
- smart cities
- digital innovation in construction
- infrastructure investment
- construction ergonomics
- socio-environmental sustainability
- gender equity, and
- climate change responses
The contributions present innovative solutions, impactful insights, and substantive contributions to the discourse on sustainable infrastructure development, and illuminate the interplay between infrastructure development, social justice, environmental sustainability, and technological advancement.
Smart and Resilient Infrastructure For Emerging Economies: Perspectives on Building Better is essential reading for academics, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students involved in the built environment, infrastructure delivery, investment in infrastructure, civil engineering, architecture, urban planning, environmental science, and other related disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |63 pages
Sustainable & resilient infrastructure development
chapter |9 pages
Promoting sustainable development through quality infrastructure in Elukwatini node, South Africa
chapter |9 pages
Developing a sustainable water supply system for rural South African communities
chapter |8 pages
Sustainable community-driven urban regeneration of recreational infrastructure in former mine townships of the Copperbelt Province
chapter |9 pages
Integration of environmental sustainability practices in real estate development in emerging markets
chapter |10 pages
Development of South African structural performance criteria for innovative building systems
part |51 pages
Smart infrastructure and cities, digital innovation in construction & digital transition
chapter |8 pages
Municipal free Wi-Fi intervention: Mamelodi and Soshanguve comparative analysis
chapter |8 pages
Advancements in E-mobility: A bibliometric literature review on battery technology, charging infrastructure, and energy management
chapter |7 pages
Digital twin technology in health, safety, and wellbeing management in the built environment
part |53 pages
Infrastructure, investment and finance-trends and forecasts
chapter |6 pages
Creating safe spaces: Scaling up public transport infrastructure investments in the city of Johannesburg
chapter |9 pages
Influence of public sector built environment professionals on infrastructure delivery in the Eastern Cape
chapter |9 pages
Factors affecting public sector infrastructure delivery in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
chapter |9 pages
Importance of proactive road maintenance over reactive road maintenance in developing countries: A case of Malawi
chapter |9 pages
Public procurement: Driver for achieving a circular economy among SME housing developers
chapter |9 pages
An assessment of cost and socio-economic implications of applying innovative active design principles in construction
part |29 pages
Construction ergonomics, health, safety and wellbeing
chapter |9 pages
Psycho-social well-being programs required for construction workers in Zimbabwe
chapter |9 pages
Implementing construction risk management methods on private sector projects in South Africa
chapter |9 pages
Causes of job burnout amongst Female Quantity Surveyors (FQS) in the Nigerian Construction Industry (NCI)
part |21 pages
Infrastructure: Economic, social / environmental sustainability
chapter |10 pages
An exploratory and comparative assessment of cost estimates on infrastructure projects: A client's perspective
chapter |9 pages
Investigation of cost management factors influencing poor cost performance on large to medium sized projects in the construction industry
part |54 pages
Gender equity, social justice & social inequality in construction
chapter |8 pages
Adoption of microgrids as an energy solution to uplift rural communities in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
chapter |9 pages
A framework for sustainable human settlement building methods for low-cost housing in Northern Cape province
chapter |8 pages
Pathways to meaningful upgrading of urban informal settlements: Towards adequate housing infrastructure in South Africa
chapter |9 pages
Failures of Small Medium Enterprise (SME) in the Kwazulu-Natal construction industry: Management, technical, and economic factors
chapter |9 pages
Tenurial arrangements to encourage growth and development in urban villages in Nigeria
part |21 pages
Environment, climate change and shock events impact and response and water resources
