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The infrastructure space is very large with an annual global budget worth

trillions of dollars. Sustainable infrastructure is the main underpinning

to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thus,

infrastructure is the nexus for the successful implementation of the respective

SDGs. Sustainability assessment and reporting is a major global paradigm

shift in engineering practice, education, research, and development. There

are challenges in assessing and reporting infrastructure delivery at local,

regional, national, continental, and global levels. These include different

methods, frameworks, standards and tools that compete with each other

resulting in current silos-based solutions to the problem. In early October

2023, Members of the European Parliament (MEP) deepened their commitment to

align Corporate Social Responsibility Directives (CSRD) and European

Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRD), which is widely seen as a

game-changer. Some of the issues and challenges to address in

sustainability assessment and reporting include; alignment of processes,

moving from generalizations to industry- and sector-specific

indicators/metrics, understanding materiality and relevance of items under

discourse to employees, end-users, stakeholders and shareholders, risk

management including climate change vulnerabilities induced by operations

in complex supply chains, integrating disparate systems for use in

decision-making, and technological innovations that ensure interoperability

at appropriate interfaces. As a baseline, assessment and reporting should

holistically balance Brundtland's foundational triple-bottom line (i.e.

economy, society, and environment), governance, health and safety amongst

others.



The themes of interest in the research topic include:

- Sustainable development

- Sustainability engineering

- Key performance indicators (KPIs)

- Frameworks, methods, models, and tools for sustainability assessment and reporting

- Risks and risk management

- 3D Concrete printing

- Energy efficiency

- Resource management

- Ontologies

- Interoperability

- Artificial Intelligence (AI)

- Machine Learning (ML)

- Natural Language Processing (NLP)

- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Keywords: Infrastructure sustainability, Integrated reporting, Key performance indicators (KPIs), Sustainable development goals (SDGs), Artificial intelligence (AI)


Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.

The infrastructure space is very large with an annual global budget worth

trillions of dollars. Sustainable infrastructure is the main underpinning

to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thus,

infrastructure is the nexus for the successful implementation of the respective

SDGs. Sustainability assessment and reporting is a major global paradigm

shift in engineering practice, education, research, and development. There

are challenges in assessing and reporting infrastructure delivery at local,

regional, national, continental, and global levels. These include different

methods, frameworks, standards and tools that compete with each other

resulting in current silos-based solutions to the problem. In early October

2023, Members of the European Parliament (MEP) deepened their commitment to

align Corporate Social Responsibility Directives (CSRD) and European

Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRD), which is widely seen as a

game-changer. Some of the issues and challenges to address in

sustainability assessment and reporting include; alignment of processes,

moving from generalizations to industry- and sector-specific

indicators/metrics, understanding materiality and relevance of items under

discourse to employees, end-users, stakeholders and shareholders, risk

management including climate change vulnerabilities induced by operations

in complex supply chains, integrating disparate systems for use in

decision-making, and technological innovations that ensure interoperability

at appropriate interfaces. As a baseline, assessment and reporting should

holistically balance Brundtland's foundational triple-bottom line (i.e.

economy, society, and environment), governance, health and safety amongst

others.



The themes of interest in the research topic include:

- Sustainable development

- Sustainability engineering

- Key performance indicators (KPIs)

- Frameworks, methods, models, and tools for sustainability assessment and reporting

- Risks and risk management

- 3D Concrete printing

- Energy efficiency

- Resource management

- Ontologies

- Interoperability

- Artificial Intelligence (AI)

- Machine Learning (ML)

- Natural Language Processing (NLP)

- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Keywords: Infrastructure sustainability, Integrated reporting, Key performance indicators (KPIs), Sustainable development goals (SDGs), Artificial intelligence (AI)


Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.

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