Technical, Material, Structural, and Managerial Issues in Prefabricated Construction
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 10952
Special Issue Editor
Interests: BIM and emerging digital technologies; system modelling; safety management
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Dear Colleagues,
The building and infrastructure sector is currently among the primary consumers of resources and a significant contributor to climate change. Prefabricated construction has the potential to significantly reduce the environmental impact associated with this industry. The benefits of prefabrication include, but are not limited to, a reduction in construction waste, material waste, cost, time, defects, and health and safety risks. Moreover, prefabrication can lead to higher quality and improved productivity, among other advantages.
This Special Issue seeks to serve as a platform for discussing the technical, material, structural, and managerial challenges of prefabricated construction. The scope of this Special Issue encompasses a range of topics, including but not limited to those related to original research articles and reviews. Authors are encouraged to submit their work on these subjects to contribute to the discourse on prefabricated construction:
- Prefabricated construction;
- Modular construction;
- Computational design and simulation;
- Structrual analysis of prefabricated building and infrastructure;
- Materials for prefabrication;
- Integrated delivery of prefabricated construction;
- Information technologies for prefabricated construction.
Dr. Ke Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- prefabricated construction
- modular construction
- buildings
- infrastructures
- prefabricated structures
- information technologies
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