Guest editorial: Transforming the construction industry towards the next normal

Abstract

[...]this special issue (SI) proposed a nexus between the construction industry trends within the niches of the circular economy (CE);building information modelling (BIM);cost reduction and maintenance;construction digitalisation;designing for sustainability;low-zero carbon technology and transitioning construction stakeholders, projects and organisations towards the next normal. [...]the limitations of transforming the construction sector towards the next normal were studied in the last paper. Labour productivity has been a challenge for the construction industry before the 2020 pandemic and more so in the new normal. [...]construction labour performance and grading evaluations for enhanced productivity were studied by Manoharan et al. [...]in transforming the construction industry towards the next normal, previous studies on the CE and OSC may spur the furtherance of waste reduction philosophies in the construction sector, as studied by Obi et al.