Synergy of Building Information Modeling and Optimization in Civil Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

We kindly invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of Applied Sciences devoted to the latest developments in building information modeling (BIM) and optimization approaches in the field of civil engineering. Submissions of original scientific works as well as review papers focused on the synergy between BIM and optimization are strongly encouraged and welcome.

More than a decade, BIM represents arguably one of the fastest-growing approaches in the construction industry, and, as such, an important accelerator for the current industrial revolution commonly referred to as Construction 4.0. The dynamic connection of the BIM model with input/output data has also directed the development of exact mathematical programming as well as meta-, hyper-, and bio-heuristic optimization techniques for solving a variety of civil engineering challenges. The main goal is to establish a holistic dynamic approach to integrating BIM and optimization methods while achieving the synergy effect for the benefit of the overall success of construction.

From this perspective, we invite you to publish your present work in this Special Issue.

Dr. Mario Galić
Prof. Dr. Uroš Klanšek
Guest Editors

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