Building Information Modeling (BIM): Current Status, Applications and Trends

Dear Colleagues,

The digitization of the AEC sector has gone from being necessary to being essential. Advances in electronics, in hardware and software, as well as in wireless networks, allow a large amount of graphic and non-graphic information to be transferred at high speed. Design has taken off from flat (2D) to parametric design. Interoperability between multidisciplinary teams in real time is today easily assumable. Digital and remote control and monitoring of works, installations and infrastructures, with all kinds of devices and sensors, is today an efficient and sustainable alternative. At the project and research level, all these advances have been developing for years. However, small and medium-sized companies, subcontracting companies or public institutions still have great difficulties in implementing these systems and procedures. This Special Issue tries to be a repository where the bases can be established for the analysis of the current situation in the world and the strategies that are being established to use the aforementioned advances with the aim of improving the economy and the sustainability of the sector, as well as how to focus a vision of the future hand in hand with aspects such as the metaverse.

Dr. Oscar Galao
Guest Editor

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