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Smart Cities, Technological Solutions and the Construction Industry

Kinh Tàu Hủ nhìn từ SKYDECK (tầng 49, độ cao 178 m) của tòa nhà Bitexco Financial Tower (78 tầng, góc Hồ Tùng Mậu-Phủ Kiệt, Q1), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, August 29, 2018 | © Courtesy of manhhai/Flickr.
Kinh Tàu Hủ nhìn từ SKYDECK (tầng 49, độ cao 178 m) của tòa nhà Bitexco Financial Tower (78 tầng, góc Hồ Tùng Mậu-Phủ Kiệt, Q1), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, August 29, 2018 | © Courtesy of manhhai/Flickr.

This volume collects papers that examine various aspects of smart city technologies, their urban feasibility and their engineering, as well as social and sustainability, aspects in the context of building design and construction processes.

A Blog Post by Pablo Markin.


Introduction

Edited by Kefeng Zhang and Sara Shirowzhan, this book showcases nine contributions presenting the outcome of research projects relevant to building, cities, and construction. A description of a smart city and the journey from conventional to smart cities are discussed at the beginning of the book. Innovative case studies of underground cities and floating city bridges are also presented in this book. BIM and GIS applications for different projects, and the concept of intelligent contract and virtual reality are likewise covered in this volume. Two other concepts relevant to conventional buildings that include private open spaces and place attachments are also explored in this volume. This book concludes with a discussion of how construction processes can be upgraded in the future by smart technologies.

Topical Spotlight

In their opening chapter, Aman Kumar and Jasvir Singh Rattan (2020, p. 3) propose a definition of smart cities that focuses on the notion of smartness comprising the digital, intelligent and sustainable aspects of city life: “The basic concept of the smart cities is that the city should be “green,” more “accessible,” and more “liveable” (Kumar and Rattan, 2020, p. 3). In this vein, Faham Tahmasebinia and colleagues (2020a, p. 17) have developed a concept of the earthscraper as a solution for underground city development that “as an alternative building method for the future […] requires less surface area and lower operating costs than an equivalent aboveground structure” (Tahmasebinia et al., 2020a, p. 17). Similarly, Faham Tahmasebinia and others (2020b, p. 35) have presented a design report for a floating cities bridge intended “to connect two floating cities or nearby land to resolve the problem of shortage of construction land due to an increase of population and sea level” (Tahmasebinia et al., 2020b, p. 35). In this context, Reyhaneh Karimi, Behnaz Avazpour and Samad M.E. Sepasgozar (2020, p. 95) have zeroed in on private open spaces, such as balconies, their characteristics and their contribution to social, economic and environmental sustainability, aside from their contribution to urban livability.

Conclusion

This collection brings together diverse contributions that explore how diverse technologies, such as intelligent contracts the feasibility of which Alan McNamara (2020, p. 119) explores in his paper and the applications of virtual reality technologies in the construction industry which Mohsen Ghobadi and Samad M.E. Sepasgozar (2020, p. 157) critically examine in their article, can be deployed in the realization of smart city projects.


Published by IntechOpen in 2020, Smart Cities and Construction Technologies, edited by Kefeng Zhang and Sara Shirowzhan, has become available in Open Access at the Open Research Library in early 2020, as part of the IntechOpen Engineering 2019-2021 collection.


References

Ghobadi, Mohsen and Samad M.E. Sepasgozar. An Investigation of Virtual Reality Technology Adoption in the Construction Industry. In Zhang, Kefeng, and Sara Shirowzhan, eds. Smart Cities and Construction Technologies (pp. 157-191). IntechOpen, 2020. Retrieved from https://openresearchlibrary.org.

Karimi, Reyhaneh, Behnaz Avazpour and Samad M.E. Sepasgozar. Effective Factors on Desirability of Private Open Spaces: A Case Study of Kuye Nasr Residential Buildings, Tehran. In Zhang, Kefeng, and Sara Shirowzhan, eds. Smart Cities and Construction Technologies (pp. 95-116). IntechOpen, 2020. Retrieved from https://openresearchlibrary.org.

Kumar, Aman and Jasvir Singh Rattan. A Journey from Conventional Cities to Smart Cities. In Zhang, Kefeng, and Sara Shirowzhan, eds. Smart Cities and Construction Technologies (pp. 3-16). IntechOpen, 2020. Retrieved from https://openresearchlibrary.org.

McNamara, Alan. Automating the Chaos: Intelligent Construction Contracts. In Zhang, Kefeng, and Sara Shirowzhan, eds. Smart Cities and Construction Technologies (pp. 119-138). IntechOpen, 2020. Retrieved from https://openresearchlibrary.org.

Tahmasebinia, Faham, Kevin Yu, Jiachen Bao, George Chammoun, Edwin Chang, Samad Sepasgozar and Fernando Alonso-Marroquin. Earthscraper: A Smart Solution for Developing Future Underground Cities. In Zhang, Kefeng, and Sara Shirowzhan, eds. Smart Cities and Construction Technologies (pp. 17-34). IntechOpen, 2020a. Retrieved from https://openresearchlibrary.org.

Tahmasebinia, Faham, Yutaka Tsumura, Baichuan Wang, Yang Wen, Cheng Bao, Samad Sepasgozar and Fernando Alonso-Marroquin. Floating Cities Bridge in 2050. In Zhang, Kefeng, and Sara Shirowzhan, eds. Smart Cities and Construction Technologies (pp. 35-50). IntechOpen, 2020a. Retrieved from https://openresearchlibrary.org.

Zhang, Kefeng, and Sara Shirowzhan, eds. Smart Cities and Construction Technologies. IntechOpen, 2020. Retrieved from https://openresearchlibrary.org.

 


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Kinh Tàu Hủ nhìn từ SKYDECK (tầng 49, độ cao 178 m) của tòa nhà Bitexco Financial Tower (78 tầng, góc Hồ Tùng Mậu-Phủ Kiệt, Q1), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, August 29, 2018 | © Courtesy of manhhai/Flickr.



OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Pablo Markin (December 30, 2020). Smart Cities, Technological Solutions and the Construction Industry. The DGO Blog. Retrieved February 14, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/nkd5


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