Despite widespread digitalization efforts in the built environment sector, practitioners remain uncertain about the value of digital investments, viewing them as risky ventures with unclear returns and ambiguous benefits. This special issue seeks to address the insufficient understanding of how digital transformation creates value across the sector by establishing frameworks and gathering evidence on the impact of digital technologies.

The issue welcomes contributions from multiple disciplines examining how value is understood, measured, and realized through digital adoption. Contributions may assess value quantitatively through efficiency metrics and financial indicators, or qualitatively through improvements in work practices, sustainability, and service quality. The editors invite case studies, comparative analyses, methodological frameworks, and empirical evaluations offering both qualitative and quantitative perspectives on digital technologies in the built environment.

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Potential topics

• How the value of digital technologies is conceptualized and measured
• Opportunities and challenges related to value creation for individuals, organizations, and wider systems
• Adoption and usability of digital technologies
• Economic, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) implications of digital technologies
• Measurable effects (both positive and negative) of digitalization in the built environment

Timeline

• February 2, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• June 9, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Sara Wilkinson, University of Technology Sydney

Johnny Wong, University of Technology Sydney

Biyanka Ekanayake, University of Technology Sydney

This special issue examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the built environment across construction, real estate, facilities management, and urban planning. While AI technologies offer significant opportunities for innovation and efficiency through applications like energy optimization, smart building control, and predictive maintenance, the sector faces critical challenges regarding data integrity, algorithmic bias, privacy, and transparent decision-making.

The special issue seeks high-quality original research exploring AI's use, impact, risks, and future potential in the built environment. It welcomes contributions spanning construction automation, property valuation, smart buildings, urban planning, generative design, AI governance and ethics, sustainability applications, security systems, human-AI collaboration, and professional education in AI.

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Potential topics

• AI in construction: automation, robotics, quality control, progress monitoring, risk and safety analytics
• AI in property and real estate: valuation models, market intelligence, customer engagement, asset management, predictive analytics
• Smart buildings and facilities management: IoT-enabled optimisation, energy management, predictive maintenance, AI-driven knowledge systems
• AI in urban planning and infrastructure: spatial modelling, forecasting, environmental assessment, transport and mobility analytics
• Design and engineering applications: generative design, simulation, optimisation, digital twins, parametric modelling
• Explainable AI (XAI): AI governance, ethics, and regulation: transparency, bias, data integrity, privacy, and responsible GenAI in the built environment
• AI for sustainability and ESG: carbon modelling, resource optimisation, lifecycle assessment
• Security and risk management: computer vision for surveillance, access control, anomaly detection
• Multimodal and agentic AI: advanced AI systems applied to complex built environment challenges
• Human-AI collaboration: professional adoption, skills, workflows, and organisational change
• The challenge of educating and training built environment professionals in AI

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Deadline for submission
• December 31, 2026: Deadline for review
• February 28, 2027: Deadline for revised submission
• April 30, 2027: Deadline for approval final manuscript

An Le, Massey University

Niluka Domingo, Massey University

Sepani Senaratne, Western Sydney University

Soojin Yoon, Oklahoma State University

This special issue addresses the fragmented nature of current decarbonisation efforts in the built environment, which typically focus on isolated phases rather than adopting a comprehensive lifecycle perspective. The editors seek research that demonstrates how building design can serve as a central mechanism for reducing emissions throughout all stages, from initial conception through construction, operation, and eventual deconstruction.

Contributions should explore holistic design approaches that integrate carbon assessment early in the design process, alongside strategies for managing buildings during operation and end-of-life phases. The issue particularly emphasizes the importance of cross-cutting enablers such as multidisciplinary collaboration, workforce development, and supportive policy and financial frameworks that facilitate the transition toward net-zero carbon buildings.

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Potential topics

• Holistic design and planning: Integrating lifecycle carbon assessment in early-stage design; design management strategies for net-zero carbon pathways; forecasting and modelling; circular economy strategies; holistic approaches.
• Operation and deconstruction: Smart operations, digital twins, data-driven analytics and IoT-enabled building management for carbon reduction. Post-occupancy evaluation and facilities management for sustained low-carbon outcomes. Designing for adaptability, disassembly, and material recovery at end-of-life.
• Cross-cutting enablers: Multidisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder engagement across the building lifecycle; workforce skills and competences for low-carbon design and delivery; financial, business, and policy mechanisms to support lifecycle decarbonisation initiatives.

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Deadline for submission
• December 31, 2026: Deadline for review: First round
• March 31, 2027: Deadline for revised submission
• May 31, 2027: Deadline for approval final manuscript