Automation in Construction (ScienceDirect)

Updated and expanded versions of the best papers from the Proceedings will be recommended for submission and peer review for consideration for publication in Automation in Construction, an international research journal published by Elsevier.

Automation in Construction is an international journal for the publication of original research papers. The journal publishes refereed material on all aspects pertaining to the use of Information Technologies in Design, Engineering, Construction Technologies, and Maintenance and Management of Constructed Facilities. The scope of Automation in Construction is broad, encompassing all stages of the construction life cycle from initial planning and design, through construction of the facility, its operation and maintenance, to the eventual dismantling and recycling of buildings and engineering structures. The following list of topics is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to indicate topics that fall within the journal's purview:

• Computer-aided design, product modeling, decision support systems, classification and standardization, product data interchange

• Computer-aided engineering, process simulation models, graphics

• Robotics, metrology, logistics, automated inspection, demolition/remediation

• Facilities management, management information systems, intelligent control systems.

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (Emerald)

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE) links together the various pioneering smart and sustainable targets, bottom lines, endpoints and project deliverables through whole development cycles and project processes. The objective of the journal is to identify, develop and promote research and practice in integration between innovation and sustainability in order to help the AEC industry go through a smooth transition and paradigm shift. The journal highlights holistic problem-solving and decision-making, collaborative system and product development, innovative solutions enhancing sustainability, and mutually beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders of the built environment. It also gives emphasis to international collaboration, emerging challenges, issues arising from developing economies, and knowledge transfer to businesses and industries.

SASBE publishes original papers, review papers, case studies, and research reports as well as commentaries, technical notes, book reviews and conference news which focus on the linking of, and the holistic solutions for, key aspects of developing the built environment from project conceptualisation; through building, infrastructure and urban design; construction development; and facility operation and management; to deconstruction, recycling and reuse; for long term sustainable outcomes.

Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon)

The Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal on the use of IT in architecture, civil engineering and facility management. ITcon articles are submitted and published electronically only. The Journal is committed to minimizing publication delays, and to promoting maximum flexibility in the ways that readers use the journal for teaching, research, and scholarship while maintaining strict peer-review standards.

Journal of Information Technology in Construction is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.

ITcon has its origins in the working commission W78 (Information Technology for Construction) of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), which has also been the official publisher of the journal since 2005. In 2005 the IT-AEC journal merged with ITcon, further strengthening the journal’s base of editors and reviewers.

Urbanization, Sustainability and Society (Emerald)

It is estimated that by 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. The urban centres of the future will need to be adaptable in the face of global climate change, sustainable in their use of resources and technologies, and governed in ways which are accountable to their citizens.

Urbanization, Sustainability and Society (USS) publishes research at the nexus of built physical environment of urban areas and those communities who live, impact and develop the social fabric of urbanization. The journal is aligned with United Nations SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Technical aspects of urbanisation (such as infrastructure development, energy use and resources, smart technologies) are within the scope of the journal but the social impact of the technical aspects must be discussed within submissions.