El-Anwar, O; El-Rayes, K and Elnashai, A S (2010) Maximizing the sustainability of integrated housing recovery efforts. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 136(7), pp. 794-802. ISSN 0733-9364
Abstract
The large-scale and catastrophic impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 challenged the efficacy of traditional postdisaster temporary housing methods. To address these challenges, the U.S. Congress appropriated $400 million to the Department of Homeland Security to support alternative housing pilot programs, which encourage innovative housing solutions that will facilitate sustainable and permanent affordable housing in addition to serving as temporary housing. Facilitating and maximizing the sustainability of postdisaster alternative housing is an important objective that has significant social, economic, and environmental impacts. This paper presents the development of a novel optimization model that is capable of (1) evaluating the sustainability of integrated housing recovery efforts under the alternative housing pilot program and (2) identifying the housing projects that maximize sustainability. An application example is analyzed to demonstrate the use of the developed model and its unique capabilities in maximizing the sustainability of integrated housing recovery efforts after natural disasters.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | housing recovery; optimization; postdisaster alternative housing; sustainability |
| Index terms: | recovery, housing project, environmental impact, temporary housing, program, natural disaster, affordable housing, housing |
| Subjects: | construction type, specific urban areas and projects, environmental impact, operations management, environmental hazards, housing and residential development, software systems |
| Topics: | Sustainability, Construction Technology, Digital Applications, Urban Studies, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here