Discipline specific OER for academics

Construction and Facilities Management

This page is designed to support academics with teaching by providing a wealth of OER specifically for Construction and Facilities Management.

Explore our curated collection of OER that highlights Australian OER, and resources on the following topics:

• Maintenance and Life Prediction of Buildings
• Sustainable Construction and Management
• Digital Transformation of the Built Environment

Maintenance and Life Prediction of Buildings

• Building Maintenance & Construction: Tools and Maintenance Tasks (Interactive) by Clifford Rutherford (2018), Press Books, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Life Cycle Prediction and Maintenance of Buildings by Jorge de Brito and Ana Silva (Eds.) (2020), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• Assessment, Diagnosis and Service Life Prediction by Ana Silva (Ed.) (2023), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• Probabilistic and Fuzzy Approaches for Estimating the Life Cycle Costs of Buildings by Edyta Plebankiewicz (Ed.) (2021), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Sustainable Construction and Management

• Sustainable Construction and Building Materials by Sayed Hemeda (Ed.) (2019), IntechOpen, is licensed under CC BY 3.0
• Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management by Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Jurgita Antuchevičienė, M. Reza Hosseini, Igor Martek (Eds.)(2021), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Sustainable Design in Building and Urban Environment by Farshid Aram (Ed.) (2023), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Trends in Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure by Víctor Yepes and Ignacio J. Navarro Martínez (Eds.) (2021), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Technology and Management for Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructures by Sunkuk Kim (Ed.) (2021), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Innovative Structural Applications of High Performance Concrete Materials in Sustainable Construction by Fausto Minelli, Enzo Martinelli, Luca Facconi (Eds.) (2022), MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Digital Transformation of the Built Environment

• Building Information - Representation and Management: Principles and Foundations for the Digital Era by Alexander Koutamanis (2022), Delft University of Technology, Open Textbook Library, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA  4.0
• Disrupting Buildings by Theo Lynn, Pierangelo Rosati, Mohamad Kassem, Stelios Krinidis and Jennifer Kennedy (Eds.) (2023), Springer Nature, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Where to find more OER?

There are many platforms available that contain OER, the platforms listed below are a good starting place to find openly available resources on construction and facilities management.

• Wisc-Online
  Contains a variety of Architecture & Construction OER.
• National Academies Press - Sustainable Development
  Peer reviewed books, reports and conference proceedings in the field are available from the National Academies Press for free online. List cost is for delivered paperback version.