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Urban Sustainability and Digital Building Management

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 (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 3408

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Yilong Han

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Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Interests: urban sustainability; facilities management; healthcare operations management; megaproject management
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Prof. Dr. Xiaodong Li

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Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: sustainable construction management; management in construction; intelligent decision making; occupational health management in construction; construction industry development and policy
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Dr. Jiayu Chen

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School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: human-centric mental sensing; building digital twin; smart urban grid and simulation
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Dr. Ruidong Chang

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School of Architecture & Built Environment, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: sustainable construction; green building information modelling; technology assessment, industry competition and market dynamics of sustainable construction technologies
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Dr. Qian Wang

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Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566, Singapore
Interests: LiDAR; scan-to-BIM; computer vision; robotics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid urbanization in modern society poses inevitable challenges in terms of the pollution of natural and built environments and shortages in energy. As the foundation of cities, buildings hold the key to sustainable development. The emerging trends of digitalization show new potential for innovative solutions to be used to improve the sustainability of buildings, communities, and cities. New multi-focal analyses and multi-disciplinary approaches can help people to better understand the complicated inter-relationships among energy efficiency, facility upgrades, carbon footprint, the microclimate, pollution, building mobility, and city management. This Special Issue, entitled “Urban Sustainability and Digital Building Management”, is dedicated to advancing the understanding of the abovementioned topics and provides an opportunity for researchers to originate, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas.

Dr. Yilong Han
Prof. Dr. Xiaodong Li
Dr. Jiayu Chen
Dr. Ruidong Chang
Dr. Qian Wang
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Keywords

  • sustainable development
  • green building
  • urban sustainability
  • digitalization
  • facilities management
  • building energy efficiency
  • smart building and infrastructure

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Digital Form Generation of Heritages in Historical District Based on Plan Typology and Shape Grammar: Case Study on Kulangsu Islet
by Kehan Zhang, Na Zhang, Fengmei Quan, Yuan Li and Shaosen Wang
Buildings 2023, 13(1), 229; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010229 - 13 Jan 2023
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Architectural heritage in historic districts, as a complex type of heritage, encompasses both the uniqueness of the building itself and also shows cultural and regional characteristics as a group, especially for the heritage site that contains multi-culture features. The digitalization research of this [...] Read more.
Architectural heritage in historic districts, as a complex type of heritage, encompasses both the uniqueness of the building itself and also shows cultural and regional characteristics as a group, especially for the heritage site that contains multi-culture features. The digitalization research of this type of heritage often focuses on the digital archiving and modeling of heritages but rarely considers the combination of culture analysis and digitalization. This paper develops a digital form generation method for the heritages in historical districts by means of typological plan analysis, the Shape Grammar method, and Grasshopper software. Based on the case study of the modern Western-style house on Kulangsu, a world heritage site and historical district, this paper include three results: (1) dividing the layout plans of Kulangsu modern Western-style houses into three types, that is, native prototypes, foreign prototypes, and mixed prototypes, with 39 sub-types in total; (2) establishing shape grammar for the layout plans of Kulangsu modern Western-style houses with shape grammar sets and “S, L, R, I” expression rules; (3) creating a digital form generation method based on shape grammar result by Grasshopper software, including function cluster creation, function cluster connection and final model generation. This paper presents an example of quantitative analysis of heritage culture and a rapid modeling method of heritage, providing a reference for the construction of a heritage culture database and digital heritage management in historic districts. Full article
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