An operational context space for sustainable construction

Regardless of the importance of sustainable construction and the expanding foundation of knowledge in the field, sustainable construction is not yet standard practice. One major technical barrier to this hindering of application is the absence of an application framework that integrates both sustainability and construction practices at an operational level. Sustainability practices, which often exist as general guidelines, are much less defined in comparison with construction practices. This results in a state of responsibility dissociation and over-generality that hinders the attainment of active integration between sustainability and construction practices. This paper introduces a three-dimensional operational context space that addresses this integration problem