Digital Transformation of the Construction Industry: Indoor Environment, Occupant Well Being, Comfort and Productivity
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023) | Viewed by 1964
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart city; industry 4.0; BIM; life cycle management; urban infrastructure
Interests: automation of management; organizational-technological and organizational-economic reliability of construction; theory of construction and modeling of systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2011, the Industry 4.0 concept was introduced in Germany, considered to be the fourth industrial revolution. It includes collective concepts of technologies, such as the Internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, printed electronics, artificial intelligence, etc.
At the same time, construction, which, as an industry, appeared in ancient times, also went through several stages of development. Buildings were built of clay, then people began to use stone. Over time, cities and states appeared that needed protection, which led to the construction of defensive walls and structures. All this served as the development of construction and architecture, with novel materials and construction technologies appearing over time.
This Special Issue is devoted to topical issues concerning managing capital construction projects at various stages of their life cycle using Industry 4.0 technologies.
Nowadays, worldwide, specialists in the sphere of the automation and informatization of the construction industry are likely to address issues related to the formation and filling of information models at various stages of projects’ life cycles, the content of the issues solved on the basis of these models, and the technical and organizational interaction of all participants of the investment construction process.
Articles regarding the following issues will be accepted for publication in the journal:
- Theoretical, methodological and integrating approaches to the management of capital development projects’ life cycles;
- Managing information model data capital development projects at all stages of their life cycle, including the collection, storing, integration, and transfer of data; their monitoring, actualization; and analysis, validation, and verification;
- Modelling information processes and structures, algorithms of visualization, transformation and analysis of information, and synthesis of virtual and augmented reality;
- The creation and development of issue-driven management systems on the basis of digital intellectual support for effective decision making, fuzzy modelling, and the optimization of capital development projects functioning at all stages of their life cycles;
- Designing an organizational structure of enterprises, organizing manufacturing processes, and systems for their management;
- Information modelling of building systems aimed at the effective management of capital development projects and their complexes at all stages of their life cycles;
- Design management and planning of production processes, including those under conditions of uncertainty and risks;
- Methods and algorithms of managing organizational and information processes in construction;
- The technical rationing and regulation of organization, management, and information modelling processes for capital development projects and building systems at all stages of their life cycles.
Dr. Liubov Andreevna Shilova
Prof. Dr. Ginzburg Alexander
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart cities
- additive technologies
- IoT
- digital twins
- industry 4.0
- BIM
- life cycle
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