Intelligent Computing in Architecture, Engineering and Construction

Dear Colleagues,

The building and construction industry is a contributor to the global economy and currently employs about 7 percent of the world’s working-age population. It is estimated that about $10 trillion is spent on construction-related goods and services every year. In recent decades, the use of computer methods to aid and assist architects, engineers, and others involved in the building and construction industry has grown significantly, which has brought both opportunities and challenges. One of these elements is the introduction of building information modeling. The use of BIM has increased significantly within the building community and has largely contributed to the process of eliminating faults in designs. It has also provided a supportive layer for computing approaches helping to bring intelligent methods to the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) domain.

This Applied Sciences Special Issue welcomes all new and advanced work on intelligent approaches to the AEC domain. All papers using BIM-based machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, knowledge representation, and processing approaches used and applied to AEC would be welcome, but other topics involving intelligent methods will also be considered. The focus of this Special Issue is on bringing intelligent methods to the building process at all its stages from conception, through the design and actual construction stages to the life-long maintenance phase.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Strug
Prof. Dr. Grażyna Ślusarczyk
Guest Editors

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