Advances in Project and Design Management in the Construction Sector

Dear Colleagues,

In this Special Issue entitled “Advances in Project and Design Management in the Construction Sector of Buildings,” we are inviting manuscripts to be submitted, including research papers, research results communication, and review articles, about innovation in project management, design management, or construction management, combined with current issues like the implementation of Building Information Modelling and sustainable construction.

All research investigating current practices, advanced developments, and essential factors of innovative project and design management are very welcome.

We recommend to submitters the consideration and analysis of the main four dimensions concerning the subject: technology, people, processes, and management.

Those submissions can report research on innovative solutions for building projects management; describe novel methodologies for design management; present case studies on innovative construction management; applications of advanced tools of management for the effective use of building information modelling; papers may also review the approaches that integrate sustainable building and building information modelling. Articles addressing the evolution of project manager profiles and required skills are also very welcome.

Prof. Dr. Silvio Melhado
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 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.