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Challenges for the Implementation of Sustainable Construction Practices in Developing Countries: A Bibliometric Review

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Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE 2022)

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Developing countries face the constant challenges of implementing sustainable practices in their construction industry. However, a literature review is still needed to bring together the disaggregated studies and determine the development status of the sustainable construction research field. This study explores the challenges the construction sector faces in developing countries in integrating sustainability practices into infrastructure delivery. Through a bibliometric review, this study analyses articles from the Scopus database published between 2011 and 2021. The bibliometric analysis focused on analysing sustainable construction research publications and citation patterns, while content analysis was used to identify the primary levels of analysis and topical focuses. Emerging trends in the sustainable construction research field are reported. The study also determined the most productive authors and collaboration among authors, most productive journals, and most active countries and publications with the highest impact on sustainable construction research. The study’s findings reveal the level of interest in sustainable construction by academics and industry practitioners in developing countries. This also informs on the level of awareness on sustainable development in developing countries. Challenges identified and discussed explore themes on institution support, stakeholders’ role, lack of regulation and legislation, and building standards and guidelines. The results are imperative for improving the understanding of challenges to sustainable development, which is vital to policy formulation and decision-making. The discussions also provide solutions to sustainable development challenges and offer strategies to drive adoption.

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The work is part of collaborative research at the Centre of Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment (CARINBE).

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  1. Center of Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment (CARINBE), Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Motheo Meta Tjebane, Innocent Musonda, Adetayo Onososen & Molusiwa Ramabodu

  2. Department of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

    Motheo Meta Tjebane

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Tjebane, M.M., Musonda, I., Onososen, A., Ramabodu, M. (2023). Challenges for the Implementation of Sustainable Construction Practices in Developing Countries: A Bibliometric Review. In: Skatulla, S., Beushausen, H. (eds) Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering. ICCCBE 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 358. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32515-1_9

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