Digital Technologies for Cost and Time Management in Construction
A Special Issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309) belonging to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2027 | Viewed by 561
Editors
Interests: BIM; knowledge management; digital twins; ICT for construction; digital platforms; standardization; cost management
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Interests: BIM; openBIM; linked data; knowledge management; data management; project management; digital twins; AI for construction; digital platforms; standardization; cost management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In construction projects, the risk of cost overruns and schedule delays is high. Construction projects for buildings and infrastructure are becoming increasingly complex with a greater demand for boosted performance while reducing costs and time. These elements highlight the need for more effective and precise cost and time management procedures that have become the main source of innovation and improvement in the integration of digital technologies. The combination of geometrical data from building information models with time information (4D modelling) and cost information (5D modelling) is still under exploration both in terms of research and industrial applications. The possibilities offered by the use of artificial intelligence to automate and improve the existing processes are still unexplored and can drive a new wave of innovation in terms of time and cost management activities. Extending the case study applications to different contexts as well as promoting new and innovative ways to integrate multidisciplinary information considering geometry, time and cost represent an open challenge for the construction sector. Thus, this Special Issue calls for contributions that lead to more integrated time and cost management activities with the support of digital technologies in the construction sector.
Dr. Mirarchi Claudio
Dr. Jacopo Cassandro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence for cost and time management in construction
- AI-based decision support systems for project control
- predictive analytics for cost and schedule forecasting
- integrated cost and schedule control
- automation in construction project management
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