Towards Industrial 5.0 in the Construction Industry: Techniques, Requirements, Energy, Maintenance Engineering, Challenges and Opportunities

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of the open access journal Buildings that will be dedicated to “Towards Industrial 5.0 in the Construction Industry: Techniques, Requirements, Energy, Maintenance Engineering, Challenges and Opportunities”.

Construction is undergoing an evolution from Construction Industry 4.0 to the innovative Construction 5.0. The aim of this evolution is to promote, among other things, automation and robotics in a more influential way, with the use of new techniques, which has led to greater efficiency in the execution of tasks and a reduction in deadlines. Likewise, it promotes the improvement of the operation and maintenance of buildings. It is also an approach towards the sustainability and energy efficiency of construction processes that lead to more energy-efficient buildings with a lower carbon footprint in their construction and their future operation and maintenance.

With Construction Industry 5.0, we are committed to the mass adoption of advanced technologies, creating a smarter and more connected ecosystem. This is intended to reach automation and robotics more broadly, with the use of new techniques for inspections and the supervision of projects and heavy machinery controlled by GPS, which has led to greater efficiency in the execution and reduction of delivery times in construction processes. With the evolution towards 5.0, there is also a focus on the sustainability, maintainability and energy efficiency of construction processes.

Specifically, we encourage submissions that address the following topics:

• Advanced construction techniques towards Construction era 5.0.
• Advanced inspection techniques towards Construction era 5.0.
• Renewable energies in the environment of building models toward Construction 5.0.
• Maintenance engineering in its evolution to Construction 5.0 models.
• Artificial intelligence-enhanced digital twins toward Construction 5.0.
• Building Information Management (BIM) toward Construction 5.0.
• Building energy-saving technologies: How to reduce energy consumption through energy-saving technologies and intelligent controls.
• Human interaction toward Construction 5.0.
• Internet of Things (IoT) for Construction 5.0.
• High-performance building design: How to use advanced building design concepts and technologies to achieve high-performance building design and construction.
• Sustainable building materials: How to use environmentally friendly and recyclable materials for low-carbon buildings.
• Green building rating standards for Construction 5.0.

Prof. Dr. Javier Cárcel-Carrasco
Guest Editor

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 monthly 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.

• construction 5.0
• advanced construction techniques
• maintenance engineering
• building information management (BIM)
• hybrid renewable systems
• energy efficiency
• circular economy
• human interaction
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• artificial intelligence