Digital Frontiers in Buildings and Infrastructure
About the Book Series
This series provides comprehensive coverage of both technical innovations and strategic applications of digital technologies in the built environment and civil engineering sectors.
Toward Digital Twins: Why Digital Transformation begins with Data, not Models
1st Edition
By Apeesada Sompolgrunk, Hamed Golzad, Saeed Banihashemi, Henry Liu, Farzad Pour Rahimian
March 16, 2027
Digital transformation in the built environment has not delivered what it promised. This book argues that the failure is structural rather than technical. The sector's information layer was never governed independently of the proprietary platforms that hold it, and no amount of new technology can ...
Enhancing Interoperability and Automation of Construction Waste Quantification: Integration of Building Information Modelling and Semantic Web Technology
1st Edition
By Subarna Sivashanmugam, Sergio Rodriguez Trejo, Farzad Pour Rahimian
October 16, 2026
Enhancing Interoperability and Automation of Construction Waste Quantification outlines the construction waste quantification (CWQ) modelling that supports data-driven decision-making in the built environment. It presents how the functionalities of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Semantic ...
Structural Design and Optimization of Lifting Self-forming GFRP Elastic Gridshells based on Machine Learning
1st Edition
By Soheila Kookalani, Hamidreza Alavi, Farzad Pour Rahimian
August 26, 2025
Structural Design and Optimization of Lifting Self-forming GFRP Elastic Gridshells Based on Machine Learning presents the algorithms of machine learning (ML) that can be used for the structural design and optimization of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) elastic gridshells, including linear ...