Smart and Sustainable Built Environment

Aims & Scope

The world has never been exposed to such a paradigm shift prior to the emerging industry 4.0 revolution – the governing foundations for shaping and delivering progressive changes for addressing issues embracing Society, Knowledge, Economy, and People.

Scientific advances and innovative technologies in Architecture, Engineering, Construction are key factors in this process, the tenets of which can help the countries move towards developing smarter, and more sustainable communities.

In this respect, the nine pillars supporting Industry 4.0 are widely accepted by the research and practice communities to include: the integration of Virtual/Augmented / Mixed Reality (XR=VR/AR/MR); where mainstream Building Information Management in particular is seen as a vehicle for addressing such issues as industry fragmentation, value-driven solutions, decision making, client engagement, and design/process flow to name but a few.

Advanced Simulation, Computer Vision, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Linked Data all provide immense opportunities for dealing with these challenges; more importantly perhaps, provide real tangible (evidenced-based) innovative solutions that until now, have never been possible before.

These technologies are perceived as the ‘true’ enablers of future practice.

Exemplars from other industries such as automotive, aerospace and oil and gas have provided showcase solutions using advanced technologies.

However, until only relatively recently, AEC has only just started to recognise terms such as “golden key” and “golden thread” as part of BIM processes and workflows.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	4.6
2024	3.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.991

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	36

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4904

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1228

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Abstracting & Indexing

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Energy, Engineering, Environmental Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• What is a Smart Building?

  Citation: 238

  Authors: A.H., M., Stephen

• Industry 4.0 deployment in the construction industry: a bibliometric literature review and UK-based case study

  Citation: 229

  Authors: Chris, David, Igor, Joseph, Wellington Didibhuku, Iain

• Digital twin-based progress monitoring management model through reality capture to extended reality technologies (DRX)

  Citation: 150

  Authors: Sepehr, Ibrahim

• An investigation for integration of deep learning and digital twins towards Construction 4.0

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Mergen, Ibrahim, Sepehr

• Toward digitalization in the construction industry with immersive and drones technologies: a critical literature review

  Citation: 108

  Authors: Faris, Sandra, Saeed, Michail, M. Reza, Sepehr

• Digital transformation as a strategy to reach sustainability

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Ana Maria, Maria Alejandra

• The relationship between sustainability practices and financial performance of construction companies

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Renard Y.J., Maria C.A., David G.

• A systematic review of circular economy research in the construction industry

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Oluyomi A., Adekunle, Temitope, Lovelin Ifeoma

• Exploring firm performance by institutional pressures driven green supply chain management practices

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Waqar, Arsalan, Muhammad, Muhammad

• A review of building/infrastructure sustainability reporting tools (SRTs)

  Citation: 79

  Authors: Renard, Maria, David

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