Engineering Informatics for Intelligent Lifecycle Management in the 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: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 157
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital technology; construction engineering and management; digital construction; building informatics
Interests: digital heritage; natural hazards risk and resilience; heritage building information management (HBIM); sustainable smart cities; digital twins; participatory design; urban infrastructure systems
Interests: digital twins; artificial intelligence; computer vision; hybrid simulation; multi-hazard assessment; infrastructure resilience
Interests: emerging technologies; technology ethics; technology governance; technology for social justice
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Special Issue Information
Engineering informatics provides the theoretical and methodological foundation for representing, integrating and operationalizing engineering information across the lifecycle of built assets. As the built environment evolves beyond digitalization toward intelligence-enabled systems, structured information, semantic modelling and computational reasoning are becoming central to enhancing lifecycle performance, safety and sustainability.
This Special Issue invites original research articles, review papers and case studies that advance engineering informatics for intelligent lifecycle management in buildings and infrastructure. We welcome contributions that examine (1) knowledge representation; (2) data integration and interoperability; (3) computational reasoning and intelligent decision support and (4) lifecycle intelligence, which enable information continuity from design and construction to operation, maintenance and end-of-life stages.
Relevant themes include, but are not limited to, ontologies and semantic modelling for building systems; knowledge graphs and semantic interoperability; BIM and digital twins as lifecycle information infrastructures; multimodal sensing and data integration; artificial intelligence and machine learning for engineering decision support; neuro-symbolic reasoning; automated compliance checking; intelligent safety and performance monitoring; process mining and predictive analytics and data governance and information management tools/frameworks.
Dr. Xichen Chen
Dr. Stacy Vallis
Dr. Xuguang Wang
Dr. Dermott McMeel
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
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
- engineering informatics
- information management
- information-centric engineering
- knowledge representation
- knowledge graphs
- semantic modelling
- digital construction
- building informatics
- intelligent decision support
- artificial intelligence in construction
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