Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 8 Issue 5

Improving energy efficiency in Vietnamese tube houses: A survey of sustainable challenges and potentials

Phan Anh Nguyen, Regina Bokel, Andy van den Dobbelsteen

Refurbishing houses is considered a key measure to improve the energy efficiency of the built environment. However, little is known about the implementation and outcome of housing…

Environmental life cycle analysis of a fixed PV energy system and a two-axis sun tracking PV energy system in a low-energy house in Turkey

Ceyda Aksoy Tırmıkçı, Cenk Yavuz

The purpose of this paper is to propose a fixed PV energy system design and a sun tracking PV energy system design to meet the primitive energy demands of a typical house in…

Building a typology of the 100 smart cities in India

Sarbeswar Praharaj, Hoon Han

The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in India is generating significant interest among researchers and policymakers globally. Cities under the SCM, irrespective of their locations…

Exploring firm performance by institutional pressures driven green supply chain management practices

Waqar Ahmed, Arsalan Najmi, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Younus

Environmental concerns are rapidly increasing in the industries across the world. They are a more serious issue, especially, in the developing countries due to the prevalence of…

Why Indian cities are so chaotic? Decoding from the urban development efforts of Chandigarh

Arindam Biswas

The purpose of this paper is to compare and learn from Chandigarh in addressing an orderly urbanisation in India. Chandigarh is considered as a benchmark for city design in India…

Assessing sustainable housing indicators: a structural equation modeling analysis

Mahla Tayefi Nasrabadi, Hossein Hataminejad

The purpose of this paper is to propose the sustainable housing (SH) model for the housing of Region-one of Mashhad city in Iran.