Sustainable Industrialization and Standardization in Built Environment

It can be widely recognized from the history of the global construction industry and its production that the industrialization, from Industry 1.0 (the First Industrial Revolution) to Industry 5.0 (the Fifth Industrial Revolution), has continuously made extensive gigantic impacts in the built, social, and natural environments in terms of people (professional workforce and the social society, etc.), products (technologies and resources use, etc.), and processes (productivity and operations, etc.), to which standardization plays a momentous role. Whilst technical reviews about the performances and impacts of industrialization and standardization in areas across the built environment sector can well inform innovative research and responsible development, the implementations of sustainability strategies at local, national, and international levels always demand advanced and dependable solutions that can effectively, efficiently, and economically tackle various challenges and risks in relation to Social, Technical, Economic, Ecological, and Political (STEEP) issues.



The overall aim of this Research Topic (RT) is to provide a convergence research forum for academics and professionals around the world to present theoretical and practical knowledge on the engineering and managerial aspects of world-leading research into sustainable industrialization and standardization in the subject field of built environment. The goal of this RT is to develop a unique multidisciplinary topical collection to showcase the advances of professional knowledge and technical solutions that can enhance the built environment sector in contemporary sustainability oriented global movement led by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2015) into the era of Industry 5.0.



The scope of this RT covers all issues relating to the sustainability of industrialization and the synergistic support of standardization in the subject field of built environment. Issues covered by this RT could be connected to, but are not limited to, the following listed areas:

• Construction materials (manufacturing, supply, and use) for sustainability in built environment lifecycle

• Digital technologies for sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Due diligence for sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Grand challenges to sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Lessons learned for sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Ordinance compliance and enforcement review sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Policies and strategies on sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Quantitative analysis on sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Resilience oriented industrialization and standardization

• Resources efficacy through standardization

• Resources efficiency for sustainable industrialization

• Strategic, tactical, and operational solutions for the built environment sector towards sustainable industrialization and through standardization

• Standardizations for sustainable industrialization in built environment

• Supply chain analysis and partnerships for sustainable industrialization and standardization

• Sustainability oriented performances evaluation and standardization

• Sustainability and standardization oriented industrial impacts analysis

• Technical solutions for built environment businesses towards sustainable industrialization and through standardization

• Technical solutions for built environment design towards sustainable industrialization and through standardization

• Technical solutions for built environment construction and redevelopment towards sustainable industrialization and through standardization

• Technical solutions for built environment operation and maintenance towards sustainable industrialization and through standardization

• Technical solutions for built environment planning towards sustainable industrialization and through standardization

• Technical solutions for urban development and regeneration towards sustainable industrialization and through standardization

• The practices and lessons learned on sustainable industrialization and standardization for buildings and infrastructure systems

• The theory of sustainable industrialization and standardization for buildings and infrastructure systems

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review

Keywords: Buildings, Built environment, Construction management, Industrialization, Infrastructure, Standardization, Sustainability.

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