Business Models for Building Sustainability: Markets, Costs, Constraints, and Challenges
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: property valuation; real estate development
Interests: property investment; property valuation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: architecture; urbanism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The topic of building sustainability has progressively evolved in recent years, becoming an increasingly complex and interdisciplinary field of research. The scientific community has recently focused on exploring innovative business models that synthesize several considerations on the value and costs of sustainability within the built environment. However, additional challenges remain to be addressed, particularly those related to climate change, safety and health, and innovative technologies, among others. Climate change is reshaping real estate markets by introducing new investment risk profiles. Issues concerning safety and health, among other social concerns, call for a deeper reflection on how the real estate market and urban development affect human wellbeing. The potential of innovative technologies, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI), remains partly unexplored, especially regarding their application in supporting investment decision-making. This Special Issue aims to gather contributions on the effects that all these challenges may have on the real estate and construction markets, as well as on the further evolution of innovative business models linked with them.
Dr. Pietro Bonifaci
Dr. Sergio Copiello
Prof. Dr. Armand Vokshi
Dr. Siarhei Manzhynski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovative business models
- building industry
- building performance
- building energy efficiency
- real estate market
- cost control
- sustainable urban development
- climate change
- building information modeling
- circular economy
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