Advances in Data Capturing, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis in Construction and the Built Environment
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 524
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building information modeling; cloud computing; heritage; renewable and sustainable energy
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Interests: artificial intelligence; blockchain; machine learning; building energy modeling; building information modeling; sustainable buildings; renewable and sustainable energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the rapid growth of modeling and simulation approaches, tools, and techniques in various industries, such as aerospace and manufacturing, their adoption in the context of the built environment has remained relatively modest. However, recent advances in data collection, modeling, analysis, and simulation, as well as data science have paved the way for an increasing development and application of novel methods, tools, and techniques for capturing, modeling, visualizing, and analyzing construction and the built environment.
The aim of this Special Issue is to disseminate current and emerging cutting-edge research and developments in capturing, modeling, simulating, and analyzing new build and retrofitting projects, project lifecycle, as well as built heritage assets. Research that reports on beyond state-of-the-art approaches, tools, and techniques for data capturing (drones, laser and lidar scanning), modeling (scan/point cloud to building information modeling), simulating (virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality), and analyzing (big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning) is particularly welcome.
Prof. Dr. Lamine Mahdjoubi
Dr. Xiaojun Luo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drones, laser and lidar scanning, point clouds, cloud computing
- building information modelling, scan point cloud to BIM
- Internet of Things/digital twins
- virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality
- artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data
- new build, building retrofitting, project lifecycle, heritage BIM
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