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Building Information Modeling/Management (BIM) Driven Circular Economy
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Building Information Modeling/Management (BIM) Driven Circular Economy

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 (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2404

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhen Liu

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School of Design, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: design education; new intelligent information technology; smart city informatization; building information model (BIM); ecological and green design; environmental design; sustainable design and construction; intelligent construction; information and interaction
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Prof. Dr. Fenghong Wang

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School of Design, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: engineering graphic; user experience design; interactive interface design; virtual interaction design; usability evaluation; computer-aided industrial design
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Osmani

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School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
Interests: sustainable design; construction innovation; best practice and change management; circular economy; material resource efficiency; designing out waste and end-of-life waste recovery and optimization; low/zero energy building design; construction and retrofit; building information model (BIM)
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As the backbone of the fourth industrial revolution, the digital economy (DE) is considered to have a disruptive effect, in which Building Information Management has played a crucial role in building industry. Since, the COVID-19 epidemic has severely negatively affected the global economy, environment, and society, DE are receiving high attention from policy makers, practitioners, and scholars around the world. Currently, in post epidemic, digital technology, such as Building Information Modeling, has great potential in promoting sustainable development via Circular Economy (CE) approach. Accelerating the integration and innovation of Building Information Modeling/Management (BIM) with other technologies and aspects can trigger multi-sphere, multi-dimensional breakthroughs for sustainable development. The aim of this Special Issue is to suggest cases and recommend technologies and policies for the transition of emerging theory and practice of Building Information Modeling/Management (BIM) driven CE towards sustainable development in architecture, building, engineering, and construction industry.

Dr. Zhen Liu
Prof. Dr. Fenghong Wang
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Osmani
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • building information modeling/management (BIM)
  • city information modeling/management (CIM)
  • digitization
  • digital economy
  • circular economy
  • digital technology
  • business models (new technologies, innovative design)
  • sustainable development

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Building Information Modelling (BIM) Driven Sustainable Cultural Heritage Tourism
by Zhen Liu, Man Zhang and Mohamed Osmani
Buildings 2023, 13(8), 1925; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081925 - 28 Jul 2023
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At present, incorrect or aggressive conservation efforts harm not only the building heritage, but also its cultural significance and authenticity. There is an urgent need to investigate existing studies that utilise proper methods and processes of the digital economy and technology to promote [...] Read more.
At present, incorrect or aggressive conservation efforts harm not only the building heritage, but also its cultural significance and authenticity. There is an urgent need to investigate existing studies that utilise proper methods and processes of the digital economy and technology to promote sustainable architecture and building heritage conservation and heritage tourism development and management to achieve the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). Hence, this paper aims to explore the role of digital economy technology, i.e., building information modelling (BIM), in promoting the harmonious development of cultural architectural and building heritage conservation and sustainable cultural heritage tourism, as well as to reveal the current state of the research and hotspots in BIM-driven cultural heritage conservation for sustainable cultural heritage tourism. A mix of a macro-quantitative bibliometric method and a follow-up micro-qualitative content analysis method has been employed to highlight the significance and promise of the interdisciplinary domains of BIM, cultural heritage conservation, and sustainable cultural heritage tourism to the attainment of SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities) focused on three specific goals, i.e., enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanisation (SDG 11.3), strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage (SDG 11.4), and reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities (SDG 11.6); and SDG 17 (partnerships) regarding four issues, i.e., stakeholder relationships, public participation, heritage conservation experts, and management. Additionally, three categories of research themes have been identified: cultural heritage conservation, heritage and tourism management, and support of emerging technology. Furthermore, the relationships between BIM and sustainable cultural heritage tourism from the last 26 years (1997 to 2022) have been revealed with visualisations of future research trends in BIM, cultural heritage conservation, and sustainable cultural heritage tourism. Full article
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