Virtual and Augmented Reality Applied in Architecture, Engineering and Construction

This Special Issue of the journal Buildings concerns virtual and augmented reality for the design, manufacture, and maintenance of buildings. Virtual reality and augmented reality have a technological maturity allowing them to bring added value in many fields of activity. The building domain is a producer of numerous digital data at the concept level (with the BIM data—Building Information Modeling), at the construction level (data of the building as built), at the maintenance level and at the user level. These digital data, coupled with virtual and augmented reality technologies, allow a better collaborative work between designers and future users for the design of the building, a more intuitive interaction between users and the building through smart data visualisation and an assistance to maintenance operations.

This call for papers concerns the scientific work related to these activities, and focuses on the management of the BIM model for virtual and augmented reality, the digital twin of the building, artificial intelligence for the management of building data, assistance to engineering (design, project review) and construction (task planning, security) through virtual reality, assistance to building maintenance through artificial intelligence and augmented reality, and digital technologies facilitating the involvement of citizens in the life of the building (smart building).

Prof. Dr. Frederic Merienne
Guest Editor

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