Sustainable Disruptive Technologies in the Built Environment: A Step towards Industry 5.0
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2022) | Viewed by 34290
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Interests: construction management; digital construction; project management; digital built environment; smart cities
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Dear Colleagues,
The built environment has been disrupted through innovative technologies in line with Industry 4.0 requirements laying the foundations of the smart built environment. However, with the recent introduction of Industry 5.0, additional steps are required to transform the smart built environment further. The focus of Industry 5.0 is to complement the existing "Industry 4.0" approach by specifically putting research and innovation at the service of the transition to sustainable, human-centric, and resilient industries. Accordingly, the built environment must transform and shift its focus from stakeholder satisfaction to stakeholder value and reinforce industry contribution to society and the wider built environment. Owing to this, the current Special Issue aims to attract high-quality articles focused on such Industry 5.0 technologies from a sustainability perspective. The technologies in focus include digital twins, green technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), fog computing, sensors technologies, building information modeling (BIM), infrastructure information modeling (IIM), big data, 3D scanning, wearable technologies, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), robotics, blockchains, cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), 3D printing, ubiquitous computing, renewable energy, autonomous vehicles, and 5G communications. The target contributors for this Special Issue include city governance teams, construction managers, civil engineers, project managers, city and urban planners, real estate and property managers, architects, IT managers, data scientists, software developers, computer systems analysts, web developers, governance management specialists, and others.
Dr. Fahim Ullah
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable Industry 5.0 technologies
- sustainable green technologies in the built environment
- sustainable digital twins in the built environment
- sustainable and green Internet of Things in the built environment
- smart, sustainable, and green buildings in the built environment
- smart city technologies
- smart and sustainable approaches to real estate and property management
- smart and sustainable construction
- smart and sustainable architecture
- smart and sustainable environments
- unmanned aerial vehicles for sustainability in the built environment
- BIM for sustainability in the built environment
- IIM for sustainability in the built environment
- sustainable geographic information systems in the built environment
- artificial intelligence for sustainability in the built environment
- big data for sustainability in the built environment
- sustainable 3D scanning and printing in the built environment
- sustainable wearable technologies and gadgets in the built environment
- virtual and augmented reality for sustainability in the built environment
- robotics and automation for sustainability in the built environment
- blockchains for sustainability in the built environment
- clouds, SaaS, ubiquitous and fog computing for sustainability in the built environment
- sustainable renewable energy systems in the built environment
- sustainable autonomous vehicles in the built environment
- sustainable 5G communications and networking in the built environment
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