Sustainable Optimization of Planning, Design, and Engineering in Construction Projects
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2023) | Viewed by 2346
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart construction technology; construction engineering; construction safety; cost estimation and artificial intelligence in construction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The discussion of optimization in planning, design, and engineering in construction projects of physical infrastructure for the initiation, maintenance, and management of sustainable projects has been ongoing for decades.
Optimization is not limited to shortening the project period or maximizing profits—it means securing maximum sustainability in the life cycle of architecture, cities, infrastructure creation, maintenance management, and monitoring. In particular, the emergence of new agendas, such as global climate change, renewable energy, resource depletion, smart cities, digital twins, and metaverses, has led the experts in each field to research with the physical built environment in mind. Therefore, applying the results to the actual built environment is a meaningful way to secure the optimized sustainability of both building and city. In this context, the present Special Issue collects analysis, evaluation, and methodology for the optimization of the construction, urban, and environmental planning, design, and construction optimization of the built environment, in addition to the optimization of operation management of the completed space, theoretical and practical projects, virtual space, etc., from various perspectives.
Building and urban areas are physical spaces in which we live and are social spaces which create human behaviors. Therefore, in an era of new paradigms and convergence, efforts to optimize various techniques can improve the quality of human life and bring urban sustainability to citizens.
In this Special Issue, we are looking for high-quality research articles related to the following topics:
- Construction optimization in architecture and urban engineering;
- Optimization of construction project management;
- Construction project risk management;
- Sustainable building construction methods;
- Architectural or urban data analysis;
- Building information modeling;
- Smart construction technology;
- Solutions to optimize urban data analysis;
- Climate change in urban areas;
- Sustainable energy management and recycling;
- Sustainable building materials;
- Life cycle assessment analysis;
- Urban risk management;
- Urban resilience;
- Smart cities;
- Other topics related to socioeconomic and engineering issues of the topic of the Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Gwang-Hee Kim
Prof. Dr. Joo-Seok Oh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building construction
- smart construction technology
- construction management
- planning optimization
- building information modeling
- life cycle assessment
- spatial analysis
- smart city
- architectural planning
- urban planning
- urban mobility
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