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Sustainable Communities Through Digital Transformation by Yusuf Arayici (Hardback)
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9781032449036
Published:
12 Feb 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
408 pages
Dimensions:
234x156mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
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This book brings together cutting-edge exploratory research findings to show how a vision for sustainable communities can be enabled by digital transformation.
This book brings together cutting-edge exploratory research findings to show how a vision for sustainable communities can be enabled by digital transformation. It attempts to apply existing knowledge about digital transformation and sustainable communities and compare, interpret, diagnose, and evaluate a variety of digital solutions to ascertain their suitability for the delivery of a more sustainable built environment. Chapters examine a breadth of issues including how digital transformations could:
· Provide digital/physical working/living environments that anticipate emerging lifestyles
· Blend digital engagements into the physical engagements within the built environment
· Support business and social activity in physical and online venues
· Use advanced information and community-oriented technologies for efficient management of urban services
· Promote sustainability
· Express narratives that celebrate the experience of place and community
· Leverage transformation of educational systems
· Foster linkages between universities, and between universities and businesses
· Facilitate working relationships among small and large companies
· Foster new processes and arrangements for innovation in the built environment
By comparing the key principles of digital transformation with those of sustainable communities, the contributors seek to justify or discount the applicability of digital change for achieving more sustainable communities. The research presented in this book is essential reading for architecture, urban planning, quantity surveying, building surveying, real estate, and construction management professionals and academics.
About the Author: Yusuf Arayici is Professor of Built Environment at Northumbria University. Since 2000, his research has ranged from building information modelling and process improvement to energy management and sustainability. He has led substantial research groups over a prolonged period through continuous cycles of funded research projects with a sum of £10M, graduated 15 PhDs and many MSc students, and published more than 100 papers and five books about building information modelling. Currently, he is researching on deep learning and cognitive digital twins for healthcare FM and AI-supported heritage BIM.Niraj Thurairajah is Associate Professor of Built Environment at Northumbria University, where he leads the Sustainable Construction Futures research group. His research delves into the complexities of the built environment, focusing on human and process-related aspects. This includes how organisations and individuals navigate technological innovation, apply new economic theories within built environment contexts, and implement decarbonisation strategies to enhance climate resilience. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications covering areas such as the digital built environment, construction economics and procurement, decarbonisation, and education. He played leading roles in research and industry engagement projects such as Green Skills, ORBEE, ACBEE, ExcelDL, ISLAND I & II, CKE, and H2B innovation grants. His work integrates academic rigour with practical industry insights, significantly contributing to the field of sustainable construction.Bimal Kumar is currently Professor of Innovative Digital Construction Technologies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. He leads the Digital Construction, Procurement and Law research group. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Engineers of India, and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is well known for his work on the application of artificial intelligence/knowledge-based systems to structural design - this has resulted in three books and numerous publications. He is also the founding Secretary/Treasurer of the European Group for Structural Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EG-SEA-AI), now called European Group of Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE). His main research interests are the design and development of systems and advanced IT tools to facilitate the integration of the design and construction processes, intelligent buildings, modelling building regulation and codes representation and processing, BIM, and knowledge management in engineering.
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