Digitization and Sustainability in Construction
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 3508
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction automation; building information modeling (BIM); sustainability in design; computer-aided energy simulation; point cloud processing; progress monitoring; fabrication verification; machine learning; laser scanning; real-time location systems (RTLS); virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: construction operation and construction process management; lean construction; digitization in construction; project management in the construction and real estate industry; building information modeling (BIM), integrated project delivery (IPD), construction contracting and dispute resolution strategies.
Interests: design of resilient structures; non-destructive testing and evaluation (NDT and E); structural health monitoring; remote sensing; remote bridge monitoring; bridge engineering; finite element modeling; remote fatigue monitoring; fracture mechanics; spatial structures; earthquake engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The construction industry accounts for as much as 40% of the global energy demands and process-related CO2 emissions, according to the United Nations 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction. Even though ambitious global initiatives of the past decade, such as the Paris Agreement and World Green Building Council, set to achieve higher global standards for sustainable construction, statistics reveal that the energy demands in the industry has, on the contrary, risen by 7% from 2010 to 2018. In fact, amongst the many countries that noted the construction industry as a nationally determined contributor under the Paris Agreement, only a few have revealed actionable plans to enhance sustainability in the construction industry.
The growth in digital technologies and innovation has paved the path for the conception of the 4th industrial revolution in construction, commonly referred to as construction 4.0, particularly to help overcome common challenges and demands in construction engineering and management. The adoption of new digital technologies and innovative solutions throughout the construction project’s lifecycle provides additional means, avenues, and opportunities to, hence, promote and foster sustainability in construction.
To this end, the special issue on “Digitization and Sustainability in Construction” is introduced to merge together and integrate the recent advancements in digital technologies with sustainable practices in the construction industry. The scope of the special issue spans a wide range of topics, pertaining to various aspects of digitization to foster sustainable construction throughout its lifecycle (pre-planning, engineering, construction, facility management, operations, and demolitions). The relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Application of building information modeling (BIM) for construction sustainability.
- Digital technologies to reduce construction waste and promote lean construction.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Supervised Learning and Deep Learning to support various dimensions of sustainability.
- Simulation-based modeling for energy management of civil and infrastructure projects.
- Computational methods to promote sustainability in design, especially for resilience.
- Optical metrology and thermal mapping for building energy conservation and dissipation modeling.
- New and novel developments for paper-less and green construction reporting.
We look forward to receiving your original contributions.
Prof. Dr. Reza Maalek
Prof. Dr. Shervin Haghsheno
Prof. Dr. Shahrokh Maalek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lean construction
- construction sustainability
- building energy conservation
- building information modelling (BIM)
- construction waste management
- building energy-simulation
- construction ecological footprint
- digital engineering and construction
- optical metrology
- computer vision
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- machine learning
