Improving Sustainability Performance of Physical Assets with Green Approaches and Digital Technologies
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 580
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental performance of the built environment; building energy performance simulation; innovative heating systems; innovative cooling systems; healthy buildings
Interests: environmental performance of manufacturing systems; environmental performance of logistics and transportation; facility management; maintenance modeling and management; energy infrastructure
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: indoor comfort; indoor air quality; building energy refurbishment; building energy performance simulation; sustainable HVAC systems; HVAC optimization; healthy buildings; representative weather files; heat and moisture transfer simulation in building materials
Interests: energy performance of manufacturing systems; risk management and occupational safety; reliability and maintenance modeling; Industry 4.0 and digitalization; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Physical assets, including buildings, equipment, and infrastructure, are physical items which are able to generate value for the organizations that own them over their whole life cycle. As such, a life cycle perspective is inherent in their economic, environmental, and social management. Literature has shown that physical asset management practices substantially affect the sustainability performance of organizations.
Both in manufacturing and in construction, increasing digitalization in design and management activities, such as building information modeling, IoT, and cyberphysical systems, makes new information available, including big data, and enables new approaches for managing physical assets, based, e.g., on artificial intelligence, simulation, digital twins, data mining, and optimization. All of this, properly connected with circular economy business models, new technologies, and new management concepts for buildings, equipment, and infrastructure, can enable organizations to make a quantum leap toward sustainability goals, such as health and safety at workplaces, responsible production and consumption, sustainable cities, clean and affordable energy, water, and food.
This Special Issue invites papers that contribute to knowledge on the use and development of green approaches and of smart technologies to improve the sustainability performance of buildings, infrastructure, equipment, or manufacturing systems over their life cycle. Papers exploring the link between digitalization and sustainable asset management, and papers presenting cases and applications are especially welcome. Different dimensions of sustainability may be addressed, individually or together, including social, economic, and environmental aspects, such as health and safety, job creation, total cost of ownership, carbon footprint, energy efficiency, and resource consumption, just to name a few.
Prof. Onorio Saro
Prof. Damiana Chinese
Dr. Alessandra De Angelis
Dr. Pier Francesco Orrù
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- asset management
- big data
- building and hvac optimization
- building automation
- building energy efficiency
- building energy modeling
- building information modeling
- building refurbishment and maintenance
- circular economy
- digital twins and simulation
- digitalization
- energy efficiency
- equipment safety
- ergonomics
- facilities management
- health and safety
- healthy buildings
- heat and moisture transfer simulation in building
- indoor comfort
- indoor air quality
- industry 4.0
- infrastructure rehabilitation and maintenance
- internet of things
- key performance indicators
- life cycle assessment
- life cycle cost
- life cycle thinking
- lifetime extension
- manufacturing systems modeling
- maintenance management
- multicriteria decision making
- occupational safety
- predictive maintenance
- reliability modeling
- repair, renewal and replacement strategies
- resource consumption
- resource efficiency
- reuse and recycling
- smart buildings
- smart factory
- smart infrastructure
- smart technologies
- total cost of ownership
- transportation infrastructure
- urban infrastructure
- weather files
- workplace health and well-being
- zero emissions
- zero waste
