Digital Transformation for Sustainable Built Environments
A Special Issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309) belonging to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2027 | Viewed by 310
Editors
Interests: building information modelling; AI/ML; photogrammetry; asset management; lifecycle assessment; solar building envelops; circular economy
Interests: building information modelling; computer vision; artificial intelligence; construction informatics; construction safety
Interests: digital construction; life cycle costing; circular economy; industrial ecology
Interests: virtual reality; augmented reality; building information modelling; machine learning; game engine; sensing and tracking; construction management; ergonomics; safety; productivity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Built environments are increasingly critiqued for their current resource usage and emissions, which make it challenging to achieve sustainability and decarbonization targets. Although a variety of methods and technologies have been introduced to address these issues, many challenges continue. In particular, the reliance on traditional and manual approaches has created a significant gap in the effective operationalisation of sustainable practices. With the emergence of Industry 4.0, digital technologies offer new opportunities to transform sustainable practices in the built environment. Technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Twins, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) enable faster, more reliable, and data-driven approaches to achieving the goals. However, their adoption remains limited, and there is a lack of awareness within the industry regarding how these technologies can be effectively applied across different activities to enhance the safe and sustainability. The digital intervention is essential to bridge the gap between sustainability goals and practices in the built environment. This Special Issue aims to promote the application of digital technologies in managing and operating the built environment to achieve and maintain sustainability goals.
Relevant Topics include, but are not limited to
- Application of Building Information modelings for sustainable built environment;
- Digital Asset Management process;
- Digital Twin and Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled applications;
- Digital platform for sustainable practices in the built environment;
- Artificial Intelligence for sustainable built environments.
Dr. Nilmini Weerasinghe
Dr. Haosen Chen
Dr. Kumudu Weththasinghe
Dr. Lei Hou
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-anonymized 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
- digital twins
- digitalization
- life cycle assessment
- smart and automation
- sustainability
- Building Information Modeling
- Internet of Things
- energy efficiency
- asset management
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