Secure environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data management for construction projects using blockchain

IF 10.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2024.105582

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly becoming imperative and obligatory across various industries. The ESG performance within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is under heightened market scrutiny. However, current ESG management in construction is still in its infancy due to two limitations: (1) a deficiency in ESG knowledge, such as indicators pertinent to construction activities, and (2) a lack of data security in ESG management, culminating in inefficient and unreliable environmental management practices. Therefore, this paper employs the Design Science Research Method (DSRM) to introduce a Blockchain-ESG Integrated (BESGI) framework, facilitating traceable ESG data management within construction projects. This framework presents three significant contributions. First, it identifies ten AEC-ESG indicators by analyzing ESG methods. Second, it proposes a mapping approach for AEC-ESG indicators to construction projects for key ESG information access and data source identification. Third, it develops a blockchain-based data management mechanism for traceable ESG data management in the BESGI framework. It validates and evaluates the framework in a construction project in Hong Kong. The results show that the framework is usable and can save labor costs by 20.15 % compared to traditional ESG management. This study offers a secure data management solution for ESG analysis of construction projects.

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利用区块链为建筑项目提供安全的环境、社会和治理 (ESG) 数据管理

环境、社会和治理（ESG）因素正日益成为各行各业的当务之急和义务。建筑、工程和施工（AEC）行业的 ESG 表现受到了市场的高度关注。然而，目前建筑业的环境、社会和治理管理仍处于起步阶段，原因有二：（1）缺乏环境、社会和治理知识，如与建筑活动相关的指标；（2）环境、社会和治理管理缺乏数据安全，导致环境管理实践效率低下且不可靠。因此，本文采用设计科学研究方法（DSRM）介绍了区块链-环境、社会和治理集成（BESGI）框架，促进建筑项目中可追溯的环境、社会和治理数据管理。该框架有三个重大贡献。首先，它通过分析 ESG 方法确定了十个 AEC-ESG 指标。其次，它提出了一种将 AEC-ESG 指标映射到建筑项目的方法，以便获取关键 ESG 信息和识别数据源。第三，开发了基于区块链的数据管理机制，用于 BESGI 框架中可追溯的 ESG 数据管理。它在香港的一个建筑项目中对该框架进行了验证和评估。结果表明，该框架是可用的，与传统的 ESG 管理相比，可节省 20.15 % 的人工成本。本研究为建筑项目的环境、社会和治理分析提供了一个安全的数据管理解决方案。

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Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;