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Construction 4.0: Challenges, Trends and Achievements
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Construction 4.0: Challenges, Trends and Achievements

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 June 2021) | Viewed by 10634

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Paulo J. Bártolo

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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 3BB, UK
Interests: additive manufacturing; digital manufacturing; advanced materials
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Prof. Dr. Helena Bártolo

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Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, PortugalResearch Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: circular economy; digital construction; design; quality in construction

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The construction sector is facing significant challenges characterized by the adoption of digital technologies, sensor systems, robotic systems, intelligent machines, and smart materials. This transformation, which by analogy to the manufacturing sector has been called Construction 4.0, will enable the construction sector to improve in terms of innovation, productivity, efficiency, and quality, reducing project delays and cost overruns.

This Special Issue aims to collect the most recent developments and trends in the field of Construction 4.0. This includes key enabling technologies (e.g., additive manufacturing, robots, autonomous vehicles), strategies to create value from remanufacturing products of buildings at the end of service life, advanced materials (e.g., smart value-added products, self-healing and self-cleaning materials, functional graded materials), life cycle monitoring, and building information modeling.

Prof. Dr. Paulo J. Bártolo
Prof. Dr. Helena Bártolo
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

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Advanced materials
  • Big data
  • Building information modelling
  • Circular economy
  • Cloud computing and cybersecurity
  • Internet of Things and cyberphysical systems
  • Logistics 4.0
  • Robots

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A Systematic Review of Construction 4.0 in the Context of the BIM 4.0 Premise
by Hana Begić and Mario Galić
Buildings 2021, 11(8), 337; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11080337 - 04 Aug 2021
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This paper presents a systematic review of Construction 4.0 in the context of the building information modeling (BIM) 4.0 premise. It comprises a review of the industry in the pre-fourth industrial revolution (4IR) age, the current and anticipated development of the 4IR, Construction [...] Read more.
This paper presents a systematic review of Construction 4.0 in the context of the building information modeling (BIM) 4.0 premise. It comprises a review of the industry in the pre-fourth industrial revolution (4IR) age, the current and anticipated development of the 4IR, Construction 4.0’s origin and applications, and the synergy of its main drivers, i.e., the synergy of BIM with the internet of things (IoT) and big data (BD). The main aim of the paper is to determine the Construction 4.0 drivers and to what extent are they initialized by the 4IR, their development and their synergy with BIM, and the direction of BIM’s implementation in the construction phase. It was found that the main drivers of Construction 4.0, which originated from the 4IR, are BIM, IoT, and BD, but with specific implementations. The results of the analysis of BIM with IoT and/or BD revealed that the integrative approaches combining the aforementioned drivers show signs of project enhancement by providing significant benefits, such as improved real-time monitoring, data exchange and analysis, construction planning, and modeling. Furthermore, it was revealed that the main drivers are mostly applied in the project’s preconstruction phase, which is continuously developing and becoming more automated. The state-of-the-art review presented in this paper suggests that BIM is in transition, adopting Construction 4.0 to become BIM 4.0. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction 4.0: Challenges, Trends and Achievements)
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