Guest editorial: Rethinking infrastructure projects for the new normal

Abstract

[...]with the pandemic, additional health protection measures are required on job sites, and the social dimensions must be taken into consideration more than usual, which means that project costs and turnaround times must be reviewed. The first paper on Prioritizing risks with composition of probabilistic preferences and weighting of FMEA criteria for fast decision-making in complex scenarios by Fábio Henrique de Souza, Luiz Octávio Gavião, Annibal Parracho Sant'Anna and Gilson B.A. Lima aims to develop a risk prioritization process using failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) in association with composition of probabilistic preferences (CPPs) and weighting the risk analysis criteria. The last paper of the Special Issue, Energy Justice Issues in renewable energy mega projects: implications for a socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects by Shankar Sankaran, Stewart Clegg, Nathalie Drouin and Ralf Müller, focuses on stakeholder issues created by large-scale solar and wind farms being built to keep pace with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 focused on clean affordable energy.