Digital Twins in Construction, Engineering and 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 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Digital twin, Building Information Modelling, Internet of Things, Sustainability, Construction Management
Interests: Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Cloud-based Computing, Data Processing Techniques
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Interests: Construction Informatics, Digital Construction Technologies and Innovations, Construction Management and Engineering, Construction Ergonomics, Construction Health and Safety
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Interests: Digital twin, Sustainability, Public–Private Partnership, Project Management, Construction Procurement
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digital twin is a technology that is making waves in all industries due to its ability to provide access to real-time data, status and future conditions, virtual representation of a physical asset, and linking both the physical and virtual domains.
Digital twin technology has the potential of making significant improvements in the construction, engineering and management industries as clearly established in other domains.
Although, current applications of digital twin in the construction, engineering and management industries are confronted with several challenges, its adequate implementation has enormous benefits. Thus, great attention has been geared towards, its application in the construction, engineering and management industries.
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the application of digital twin in construction, engineering and management, specifically facilities management.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Construction digital twins;
- Digital twins for building projects;
- Digital twins for infrastructure projects such as bridges, etc;
- City-level digital twins;
- Digital twins for facility management;
- Cost implications of digital twins;
- Ethics in digital twins.
Guest Editors
Dr. De-Graft Joe Opoku
Dr. Qiuchen Lu
Dr. Maxwell Fordjour Fordjour Antwi-Afari
Dr. Robert Osei-Kyei
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
- digital twin
- facility management
- buildings
- infrastructure projects
- building information modelling (bim)
- internet of things
- artificial intelligence
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