Digitalisation of the Built Environment

Overview & Synopsis

Our built environment is facing critical environmental and societal challenges due to climate change, housing crisis, ageing population, and many other factors. Therefore, large-scale sustainable transitions of the built environment are urgently needed. Digitalization has an immense potential to accelerate a sustainable transition towards the adoption of renewable energy, the use of bio-based and circular materials in construction and renovation projects, and the construction/adaptation of climate-resilient buildings and urban infrastructures for the well-being of the citizens. At the same time, there is still a need for new knowledge covering, for example, topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Augmented/Virtual Reality, and Digital Twinning – and how they relate to the transition of the built environment. The annual “Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment” is an initiative of the four Dutch universities of technology (4TU) in collaboration with the fourteen Dutch universities of applied sciences (14UAS) to bring together researchers and to foster knowledge exchange in the aforementioned topics and challenges. This open-access book contains the proceedings of the 3rd Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment in the form of selected extended abstracts. The event was jointly organized on 25 April 2024 by Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, and Delft University of Technology.