Digital Technologies in Construction and Built Environment
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2026 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction automation; infrastructure management; critical infrastructure resilience and cybersecurity; artificial intelligence
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: construction safety; virtual and augmented reality; building information modeling (BIM); digital safety training
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digital technologies are revolutionizing the construction and built environment sectors, offering transformative improvements in productivity, quality, and safety. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to share their recent advances and applications of emerging digital tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, building information modeling (BIM), reality capture technologies (e.g., LiDAR, drones) and visual understanding (e.g., image- and video-based activity recognition, safety monitoring, and site analysis), Internet of Things (IoT), construction robotics, big data analytics, large language models (LLMs), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), and automation in construction. We are particularly interested in papers that explore how these technologies improve planning, construction execution, project monitoring, sustainability, and workforce productivity. We welcome the contribution of theoretical advancements, innovative case studies, and novel methodologies that demonstrate measurable impacts in real-world settings. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and encourage submissions from academia, industry, and government.
Dr. Lu Gao
Dr. Zia Din
Dr. Jingran Sun
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- large language models (LLMs)
- digital twins
- building information modeling
- reality capture
- visual understanding
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- construction robotics
- augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR)
- construction automation
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