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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,160 Views
17 Pages

Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices

  • Guanjing Lin,
  • Hannah Kramer,
  • Valerie Nibler,
  • Eliot Crowe and
  • Jessica Granderson

2 July 2022

Buildings are becoming more data-rich. Building analytics tools, including energy information systems (EIS) and fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) tools, have emerged to enable building operators to translate large amounts of time-series data into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,007 Views
16 Pages

In the paper, we investigate the role of smart building or green building innovations on the Polish real estate market using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method on the group of experts (consultants, managers, brokers) that are active on the o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,297 Views
39 Pages

18 December 2024

Defects in apartment buildings significantly impact the convenience and safety of residents, and their prevalence has been steadily increasing. This study prioritizes the key defects in apartment buildings to enhance quality management. The primary c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,642 Views
23 Pages

Development of Fire Safety Assessment Model for Buildings Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

  • Ghasan Alfalah,
  • Munther Al-Shalwi,
  • Nehal Elshaboury,
  • Abobakr Al-Sakkaf,
  • Othman Alshamrani and
  • Altyeb Qassim

30 June 2023

Fires pose significant risks, encompassing loss of life, destruction of property, and substantial adverse impacts on the economy. Therefore, the prioritization of fire safety in building structures must be embraced by all relevant stakeholders, inclu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,506 Views
26 Pages

11 February 2022

In this paper, an intelligent data analysis method for modeling and optimizing energy efficiency in smart buildings through Data Analytics (DA) is proposed. The objective of this proposal is to provide a Decision Support System (DSS) able to support...

  • Article
  • Open Access
486 Views
34 Pages

This paper presents a computationally efficient two-stage analytical framework for predicting daylight performance in buildings. It is designed to support real-time applications in smart lighting and intelligent building management systems. This appr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,959 Views
15 Pages

26 November 2022

Prisons are the structures used for incarcerated inmates and are often overcrowded and understaffed. This often leads to inhumane conditions and increased violence. Smart building technologies can help to alleviate these problems to some extent and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,959 Views
22 Pages

8 April 2020

Selecting the best materials that ensure maximum performance is crucial in the construction engineering design of any construction project. However, this is challenging and usually not properly considered because of the lack of systematic and scienti...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
981 Views
25 Pages

KAVAI: A Systematic Review of the Building Blocks for Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics in Industrial Manufacturing

  • Adrian J. Böck,
  • Stefanie Größbacher,
  • Jan Vrablicz,
  • Christina Stoiber,
  • Alexander Rind,
  • Josef Suschnigg,
  • Tobias Schreck,
  • Wolfgang Aigner and
  • Markus Wagner

18 September 2025

Industry 4.0 produces large volumes of sensor and machine data, offering new possibilities for manufacturing analytics but also creating challenges in combining domain knowledge with visual analysis. We present a systematic review of 13 peer-reviewed...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
989 Views
28 Pages

Technologies for Reflective Assessment in Knowledge Building Communities: A Systematic Review

  • Paula Rodríguez-Chirino,
  • Calixto Gutiérrez-Braojos,
  • Mario Martínez-Gámez and
  • Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez

3 September 2025

Reflective assessment is central to knowledge building, as it enables learners to evaluate and improve their collective ideas. In recent years, a wide range of analytic technologies have been developed to support this process, yet there is still a li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,034 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Green Rating System for Existing Buildings

  • Nahla Hazem,
  • Mohamed Abdelraouf,
  • I.S. Fahim and
  • S. El-Omari

1 September 2020

Green buildings are becoming an essential part of sustainable development. There have been several research trends for green buildings since 1995. The present study presents a roadmap for green/sustainable research trends and proposes a new green bui...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
19,520 Views
21 Pages

Predictive Analytics for Early-Stage Construction Costs Estimation

  • Sergio Lautaro Castro Miranda,
  • Enrique Del Rey Castillo,
  • Vicente Gonzalez and
  • Johnson Adafin

Low accuracy in the estimation of construction costs at early stages of projects has driven the research on alternative costing methods that take advantage of computing advances, however, direct implications in their use for practice is not clear. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,855 Views
17 Pages

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) has been increasingly implemented in a wide spectrum of products. Considering the vital importance of buildings to human lives, it is surprising that there have been few LCSA case studies of buildings from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,234 Views
24 Pages

Assessment of Green Building Materials’ Attributes to Achieve Sustainable Building Façades Using AHP

  • Marwa M. Gomaa Mayhoub,
  • Zeyad M. Tarek El Sayad,
  • Ahmed AbdelMonteleb M. Ali and
  • Mona G. Ibrahim

14 October 2021

The need to enhance the performance of building façades and mitigate adverse environmental impacts has promoted the hypothesis of integrating green materials towards sustainable buildings. Façade designers tend to select building materials based on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,296 Views
26 Pages

11 August 2022

Decreasing the impact of educational buildings on the environment is a primary concern of the sustainable building movement. However, limited research has centered on improving educational building sustainability from users’ perspectives. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,901 Views
24 Pages

28 May 2021

Prefabricated building is an efficient building mode. Compared with the traditional building mode, the prefabricated building has advantages of less pollution, high construction efficiency, being more labor-saving, and economy, which is in line with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,596 Views
23 Pages

Interval Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy AHP Integrated Model in a Smartness Assessment Framework of Buildings

  • Mimica R. Milošević,
  • Dušan M. Milošević,
  • Dragan M. Stević and
  • Miljan Kovačević

9 March 2023

Buildings can be made more user-friendly and secure by putting “smart” design strategies and technology processes in place. Such strategies and processes increase energy efficiency, make it possible to use resources rationally, and lower...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,700 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2019

Building maintenance is closely related to the performance and sustainability of buildings. However, existing approaches to maintenance are limited in terms of estimating required repairs. Therefore, this study proposes a case-based reasoning (CBR)-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,800 Views
24 Pages

13 August 2024

Based on the composite perspective of environment–building–resource (EBR), influencing factors of the green performance of rural buildings were sorted out through brainstorming and Delphi methods, an innovative comprehensive evaluation sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,418 Views
40 Pages

Machine Learning in Smart Buildings: A Review of Methods, Challenges, and Future Trends

  • Fatema El Husseini,
  • Hassan N. Noura,
  • Ola Salman and
  • Khaled Chahine

9 July 2025

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a transformative force in smart building management due to its ability to significantly enhance energy efficiency and promote sustainability within the built environment. This review examines the pivotal role of M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,468 Views
20 Pages

Improving the Green Building Evaluation System in China Based on the DANP Method

  • Qi-Gan Shao,
  • James J. H. Liou,
  • Sung-Shun Weng and
  • Yen-Ching Chuang

13 April 2018

Against the background of sustainable development, green building practices could be part of the strategy for solving environmental and energy problems in developing countries. The aim of this paper is to explore a system for the assessment of green...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,033 Views
21 Pages

The aim of traffic flow design in commercial building space planning is to create a comfortable, easily accessible, and identifiable spatial structure in a complex and changeable business environment. However, modern commercial building spaces often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,766 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2012

The construction industry is a high-pollution and high-energy-consumption industry. Energy-saving designs for residential buildings not only reduce the energy consumed during construction, but also reduce long-term energy consumption in completed res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,431 Views
30 Pages

20 September 2024

Modern heritage, especially post-war housing estates, is facing the problems of appreciation and preservation. These buildings are interpreted in different ways by decision-makers because of questions relating to their identification. Accordingly, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,124 Views
12 Pages

Cloud-Based Infrastructure and DevOps for Energy Fault Detection in Smart Buildings

  • Kaleb Horvath,
  • Mohamed Riduan Abid,
  • Thomas Merino,
  • Ryan Zimmerman,
  • Yesem Peker and
  • Shamim Khan

16 January 2024

We have designed a real-world smart building energy fault detection (SBFD) system on a cloud-based Databricks workspace, a high-performance computing (HPC) environment for big-data-intensive applications powered by Apache Spark. By avoiding a Smart B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,715 Views
21 Pages

Development of a New Method for Assessing Project Risks in Sustainable Building Construction Projects in Developing Countries: The Case of Jordan

  • Rami Alawneh,
  • Ismael Jannoud,
  • Hesham Rabayah,
  • Samaher Asaad,
  • Hatem Almasaeid,
  • Rana Imam and
  • Farid Ezanee Mohamed Ghazali

Sustainable buildings contribute significantly to achieving sustainable development and provide many benefits. However, sustainable building construction projects are riskier than traditional construction projects. Thus, this research aimed to identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,485 Views
21 Pages

Precise measuring of urban façade color is necessary for urban color planning. The existing manual methods of measuring building façade color are limited by time and labor costs and hardly carried out on a city scale. These methods also make it chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,352 Views
21 Pages

A Simplified Method for Evaluating Building Sustainability in the Early Design Phase for Architects

  • Jernej Markelj,
  • Manja Kitek Kuzman,
  • Petra Grošelj and
  • Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik

2 December 2014

With society turning increasingly to sustainable development, sharper demands are being made concerning energy efficiency and other properties that mean reductions in the negative effects of the building on the environment and people. This means that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,318 Views
23 Pages

Adoption of Green Mark Criteria toward Construction Management Sustainability

  • Hai Chien Pham,
  • Vu Hong Son Pham and
  • Trong Kich Than

27 April 2024

Sustainable construction plays a significant role in developing countries. However, the adoption of sustainable buildings has faced diverse challenges. Therefore, this research investigates the benefits and challenges of adopting the Green Mark in gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,038 Views
25 Pages

Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults

  • Yimin Chen,
  • Guanjing Lin,
  • Eliot Crowe and
  • Jessica Granderson

6 September 2021

Detecting and diagnosing HVAC faults is critical for maintaining building operation performance, reducing energy waste, and ensuring indoor comfort. An increasing deployment of commercial fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) software tools in commer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,508 Views
24 Pages

Implementation of Adjusted Fuzzy AHP Method in the Assessment for Reuse of Industrial Buildings

  • Dušan M. Milošević,
  • Mimica R. Milošević and
  • Dušan J. Simjanović

3 October 2020

With rapid economic development and restructuring, the number of old or obsolete buildings is growing in large cities. Construction practice has actively focused in recent decades on the regeneration of brownfield areas and creating opportunities for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,710 Views
18 Pages

Benefit Evaluation Model of Prefabricated Buildings in Seasonally Frozen Regions

  • Qianqian Zhao,
  • Junzhen Li,
  • Roman Fediuk,
  • Sergey Klyuev and
  • Darya Nemova

1 November 2021

In order to effectively develop the benefit evaluation model of prefabricated houses in seasonal frozen soil areas, and improve the comprehensive benefits of prefabricated buildings, this paper proposes a life cycle benefit evaluation model for prefa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,466 Views
45 Pages

Masonry is among the most widely used construction materials around the world. Contemporary masonry buildings are primarily designed to comply with prescriptive building code regulations. In recent decades, performance-based design (PBD) has gained i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,543 Views
19 Pages

Sustainability Assessment of a Low-Income Building: A BIM-LCSA-FAHP-Based Analysis

  • Marcus V. A. P. M. Filho,
  • Bruno B. F. da Costa,
  • Mohammad Najjar,
  • Karoline V. Figueiredo,
  • Marcos Barreto de Mendonça and
  • Assed N. Haddad

5 February 2022

The construction industry is one of the most significant consumers of environmental resources worldwide. Faced with the need to produce new buildings, but without further burdening the environment, attempts to improve social, economic, and environmen...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,817 Views
3 Pages

Open Data and Energy Analytics

  • Benedetto Nastasi,
  • Massimiliano Manfren and
  • Michel Noussan

7 May 2020

This pioneering Special Issue aims at providing the state-of-the-art on open energy data analytics; its availability in the different contexts, i.e., country peculiarities; and at different scales, i.e., building, district, and regional for data-awar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,823 Views
23 Pages

The accumulation of years imbues historical buildings within universities with a profound sense of heritage, evident not only in the temporal imprints within their internal spaces but also in the evolution of their external surroundings. This cultura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,771 Views
17 Pages

20 May 2021

Smart buildings use Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for monitoring indoor environmental parameters, such as temperature, humidity, luminosity, and air quality. Due to the huge amount of data generated by these sensors, data analytics and machine lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,309 Views
20 Pages

Determining the Essential Criteria for Choosing Appropriate Methods for Maintenance and Repair of Iraqi Healthcare Building Facilities

  • Daniel W. M. Chan,
  • Dher Abdulhadi Sadeq,
  • Hadi Sarvari,
  • David J. Edwards,
  • Alireza Parsaei and
  • Amirhossien Javaherikhah

Today, building maintenance and repair (M&R) is a neglected aspect of the construction business throughout a building’s entire life cycle. Selecting appropriate M&R strategies is crucial, particularly for emerging economies like Iraq wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,665 Views
33 Pages

13 May 2024

With the increasing need for energy, issues related to using energy efficiently in buildings and employing renewable energy technologies are gaining significance. The building production process is intricate, involving numerous stakeholders, multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,277 Views
14 Pages

The Energy Performance of Building Directive obligated all European countries to reduce the energy requirements of buildings while simultaneously improving indoor environment quality. Any such improvements not only enhance the health of the occupants...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,750 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2025

The flood risk of urban buildings has been continuously increasing, owing to the increasing frequency and severity of floods. There is an urgent need to implement precise mitigation strategies to address the unique characteristics of urban residentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
11,113 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Model for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) of Urban Residential Buildings

  • Mohsen Alizadeh,
  • Mazlan Hashim,
  • Esmaeil Alizadeh,
  • Himan Shahabi,
  • Mohammad Reza Karami,
  • Amin Beiranvand Pour,
  • Biswajeet Pradhan and
  • Hassan Zabihi

Earthquakes are among the most catastrophic natural geo-hazards worldwide and endanger numerous lives annually. Therefore, it is vital to evaluate seismic vulnerability beforehand to decrease future fatalities. The aim of this research is to assess t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,245 Views
29 Pages

11 October 2023

Despite the development of increasingly efficient technologies and the ever-growing amount of available data from Building Automation Systems (BAS) and connected devices, buildings are still far from reaching their performance potential due to inadeq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,950 Views
22 Pages

Crafting Sustainable Healthcare Environments Using Green Building Ratings for Aging Societies

  • Yijia Miao,
  • Doris Sau Fung Yu,
  • Weiguang Tan,
  • Sunnie Sing Yeung Lau,
  • Stephen Siu Yu Lau and
  • Yiqi Tao

27 February 2024

As global demographics shift towards an aging population, the need for sustainable healthcare environments becomes increasingly critical. This study addresses this imperative by examining the application of Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs) in he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,103 Views
20 Pages

15 October 2019

The study of the mechanical behavior of building stones is traditionally supported by destructive compression tests carried out on representative specimens. However, in order to respect the monuments’ integrity, the study of the mechanical beha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,715 Views
17 Pages

17 June 2022

The evolution of innovative construction technology and automation has rapidly transformed the construction industry over the last few decades. However, selecting the most efficient and sustainable construction technology for high-rise building const...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,944 Views
33 Pages

29 August 2020

An increase in the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) in Facility Management (FM) induces a huge data stack. Even though these data bring opportunities such as cost savings, time savings, increa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,969 Views
22 Pages

Research on the Barriers and Strategies to Promote Prefabricated Buildings in China

  • Qiankun Wang,
  • Chuxiong Shen,
  • Zeng Guo,
  • Ke Zhu,
  • Jiaji Zhang and
  • Mei Huang

30 April 2023

Prefabricated buildings have the characteristics of being energy saving, protecting the environment, being labor saving and having a fast construction speed, which meet the requirement for the sustainable development of the construction industry and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,264 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2025

In recent years, the disruption of the prefabricated building supply chain has led to increased construction period delays and cost overruns, limiting the development and popularization of prefabricated buildings in China. Therefore, this study estab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,494 Views
24 Pages

13 October 2024

Intelligent construction is vital for achieving new building industrialization by enhancing prefabricated buildings through integrated, digital, and intelligent management across production and construction processes. Despite its significance, detail...

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