On 25 September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Declaration outlined 17 ambitious goals and 169 challenging targets. One of the most substantial goals was raising awareness of sustainable development, particularly within the context of the developing world. The following year, Saudi Arabia launched its Vision 2030; aiming at a “vibrant society”, “thriving economy” and an “ambitious nation”, through investing massively in health, education, infrastructure, among others.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse 12 assessment tools of sustainability in universities and develop the structure and the contents of these tools to be more intelligible. The configuration of the tools reviewed highlight indicators that clearly communicate only the essential information. This paper explores how the theoretical concept of a sustainable university is translated into more measurable variables to support practitioners and academics in assessing sustainability in universities.

This book provides the audience with a detailed overview of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia. It joins a very small club of books written in the English language that seeks to enhance our understanding of higher education in Saudi Arabia. What separates this study from its predecessors is that it prescribes a remedy for the Kingdom’s inability to produce a significant level of knowledge workers.

Managing the University Campus: Information to Support Real Estate Decisions is a conceptual and informative model to improve campus management. Den Heijer offers us crucial information and tools from operational to strategic level, which enables us to make effective decisions in the management of campuses. Her use of comparable data and account of practical methods is a culmination of over a decade of exploration and research on managing the campus.

Riyadh is a dynamic city characterised by its rapid growth (Struyk, 2005). This raises a number of concerns. One of which is the issue of centrality. The historical centre has long been regarded as the heart of Riyadh. However, the commercial strip of Riyadh has emerged over the last few decades as a hub of commerce, growing influence. It is a sprawling metropolis, which seeks to usurp the position of the historical centre of Riyadh. Accordingly, this research seeks to question the centrality of both these areas.

Projects in the construction industry have continued to fail at an astonishing rate (Bosch-Rekveldt et al., 2010; Flyvbjerg et al., 2003; Hall, 1981; Morris and Hough, 1987; Thamhain and Wilemon, 1986). Thus, this thesis is intended to provide an insight into the importance of skills, competences and knowledge necessary in handling major and complex projects successfully.