Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Construction and Infrastructure Management

Dear Colleagues,

The construction industry, as one of the largest sectors, can not only drive long-term national development and create substantial job opportunities, but it also needs to consume a considerable amount of resources during an entire project life cycle, e.g., design, construction, and maintenance, with consequent adverse impacts on socioeconomic and environmental conditions. In the context of climate change and population growth, sustainability is of particular importance and interest with respect to the construction industry. Hence, it makes the most sense to research sustainable construction and infrastructure management in order to realize the purpose of sustainability.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can act as a backbone that provides a new and more efficient way for facilitating sustainable construction and infrastructure management. Therefore, this Special Issue intends to encourage researchers and practitioners to implement AI in construction and infrastructure management in order to seize the valuable opportunity of digital evolution for improved project performance and sustainability. Research papers related to AI for sustainable construction and infrastructure management are welcomed, including but not limited to knowledge representation and reasoning, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, intelligent optimization, information fusion, and process mining.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Dr. Yuan Chen
Dr. Hexu Liu
Dr. Xianfei Yin
Dr. Bo Xiao
Dr. Yinghua Shen
Guest Editors

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