Digital Tools and Strategies for Modern Construction Management
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 191
Special Issue Editors
Interests: BIM; digital construction; construction project management; Industry 4.0/5.0; building life cycle assessment; AI/ML; sustainability and circular construction; decision support; mathematical statistics
Interests: construction management; BIM; digital technology; Industry 4.0/5.0 in construction; AI/ML for planning, risk and performance management; data-driven decision support; sustainability and circular construction; life cycle thinking and assessment; project/portfolio performance analytics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Construction management is undergoing rapid digital transformation driven by BIM-based information workflows, connected jobsite technologies, automation, and data analytics. While many tools are available, their effective deployment still faces challenges related to interoperability, data quality, organizational change, cybersecurity, and skills. This Special Issue, “Digital Tools and Strategies for Modern Construction Management”, aims to collect high-quality original research and review papers that advance methods, tools, and evidence-based strategies for planning, delivering, and operating construction projects across the asset life cycle.
In addition, we welcome contributions that connect digitalization and AI with performance-oriented management, including the development and validation of KPIs for construction projects and organizations. In particular, we encourage papers that propose data-driven KPI frameworks, predictive and prescriptive analytics for decision-making, and integrated dashboards for monitoring time, cost, quality, safety, productivity, and environmental performance. Contributions addressing benchmarking, maturity assessment, and performance measurement systems supported by BIM, digital twins, IoT, and AI/ML are also highly encouraged.
In this context, we also welcome contributions that develop integrated, BIM-enabled and data-driven methodologies for modelling and multicriteria assessment of sustainability parameters, particularly decarbonization and circularity, across the building life cycle. Topics include, but are not limited to: BIM and digital twins; AI/ML for scheduling, cost and risk control; KPI-based and performance-driven construction management; IoT and smart-site monitoring; reality capture and AR/VR; integrated project delivery and collaborative platforms; sustainability and circularity assessment supported by digital tools; and case studies, standards, and best practices for implementation.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Katarína Krajníková
Dr. Tomáš Mandičák
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- building life cycle assessment
- sustainability and circular construction
- Industry 4.0/Construction 4.0
- artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
- mathematical statistics
- multicriteria optimization
- construction performance management (KPI-based)
- decision support systems (DSSs)
- data-driven project control and analytics
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