Future Prospects of BIM Management for Sustainability in Smart Built Environment 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last several decades, a considerable number of sustainable design and construction approaches for AEC projects have been developed across the globe using a wide range of technologies, tools, and techniques, such as BIM, to accomplish their objectives. BIM as a system is still in its early stages, and the solutions it is applied to in the industry are constantly evolving in order to meet the distinctive needs of their users. As technology has advanced in recent years, the use of BIM has proven to be an innovative, useful, and effective factor in the development of sustainable projects, particularly in the processes of designing systems, performance assessment, visualizing, managing, and, more recently, optimizing them from a life cycle perspective. Some of these technologies are reality capture technologies, digital twins, XR (VR, AR, MR), machine learning, AI, and others. For the predictable future, the emphasis of research will be on investigating the potential of BIM management for sustainability in the smart built environment and making BIM-based technologies, workflows, and tools more adaptable to the creation of a sustainable built industry. This entails a wide range of study areas embedded within the process of planning, design, construction, and maintenance, including design innovation, environmental design, visualization, AEC technologies, innovation in construction, monitoring, and maintenance to reach the highest level of sustainability in the smart built environment. This research topic focuses on the usability of current and future potential BIM-based technologies, workflow, and approaches for sustainability in the smart built Environment. We welcome submissions of original research and reviews on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• BIM-based innovations and sustainability;
• BIM-based planning and optimising;
• BIM-based visualization and design integration;
• Building performance simulation;
• Building energy simulation;
• Automation and robotics;
• Technological innovations for sustainability;
• Mobilising big data and relevant analytics and/or AI for boosting built asset optimization;
• Digital twins for sustainability;
• Applications of BIM and other information systems for enhancing sustainability;
• Green infrastructure and construction;
• Eco-friendly and sustainable materials;
• Retrofitting and adaptive re-use of existing buildings;
• Low carbon and energy efficient built infrastructure;
• Indoor environmental quality;
• Project procurement and management for enhanced sustainability;
• Built asset operation and management for enhanced sustainability;
• Education and capacity enhancement for BIM-based sustainability;
• Digital technologies and lean construction;
• Life cycle assessment (LCA) and/or life cycle costing (LCC);
• Building certification/sustainability assessments;
• API tool development and a parametric scripting.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Sepehr AlizadehSalehi
Dr. Lavinia Chiara Tagliabue
Dr. Ibrahim Yitmen
Guest Editors

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• building information management
• building information modelling (BIM)
• building lifecycle management
• sustainable projects
• sustainability
• digital transformation in AEC
• digital twins
• artificial intelligence
• cognitive buildings
• smart city
• energy analysis and control
• design and construction for sustainability
• visualization
• extended reality (XR)
• virtual reality (VR)
• mixed reality (MR)
• environmental design
• design research
• sustainable built environment
• modular construction
• smart city and construction