30 Must-Read Publications on Digital and Circular Building

The science behind the Tech4EUConstruction cluster’s innovations 

RECONMATIC, alongside seven other European-funded projects, has come together in the Tech4EUConstruction cluster to address sustainability, innovation adoption, and labour shortages within the European construction industry.

Today, we are sharing 30 must-read publications from the cluster, offering fresh insights for researchers and industry professionals. Discover the realm of next-generation technologies and innovations, exploring the science behind building renovation, sustainability monitoring, digital innovation technologies, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and materials & design.

Check out the various topics and articles below.

Topic 1 – Building Renovation and Sustainability Monitoring:

• Monitoring the Sustainability of Building Renovation Projects by the Incube project (InCUBE)

• Towards the digitalization and automation of circular and sustainable construction and demolition waste management by the RECONMATIC project (RECONMATIC)

• Assessing the CDW volume for a typical Mediterranean residential building (RECONMATIC)
  

Topic 2 – Digital Innovation Technology:

• From 3D surveying data to BIM to BEM: the INCUBE dataset (InCUBE)

• Introducing Noise for AirSim’s 3D Lidar Sensor to Reduce the Sim2real Gap by the BEEYONDERS project (BEEYONDERS)

• Online Ergonomic Evaluation in Realistic Manual Material Handling Task: Proof of Concept (BEEYONDERS)

• REINCARNATE: Shaping a sustainable future in construction through digital innovation (Reincarnate)

• Presenting SLAMD – A Sequential Learning Based Software for the Inverse Design of Sustainable Cementitious Materials (Reincarnate)

• Single Frame Semantic Segmentation Using Multi-Modal Spherical Images by the HumanTech project (HumanTech)

• U-RED: Unsupervised 3D Shape Retrieval and Deformation for Partial Point Clouds (HumanTech)

• OPA-3D: Occlusion-Aware Pixel-Wise Aggregation for Monocular 3D Object Detection (HumanTech)

• Ontology-Based Semantic Labelling for RGB-D and Point Cloud Datasets (HumanTech)

• When Machine Learning Meets Raft: How to Elect a Leader over a Network (RECONMATIC)

• Machine-learning-assisted classification of construction and demolition waste fragments using computer vision: Convolution versus extraction of selected features (RECONMATIC)

• Review of Concepts for Construction and Demolition Waste and the Circular Economy (RECONMATIC)

• On using Hyperledger Fabric over Networks (RECONMATIC)

• RoBétArmé Project: Human-robot collaborative construction system for shotcrete digitization and automation through advanced perception, cognition, mobility and additive manufacturing skills (RoBétArmé)

• Adaptive BIM/CIM for Digital Twining of Automated Shotcreting Process by the RoBétArmé project (RoBétArmé)

• Leveraging Multimodal Sensing and Topometric Mapping for Human-Like Autonomous Navigation in Complex Environments (RoBétArmé)

• Cognitive Fusion-based Path Planning for UAV Inspection of Power Towers (RoBétArmé)

• Comparative Study of Surface 3D Reconstruction Methods Applied in Construction Sites (RoBétArmé)

• Real-time 3D Reconstruction Adapted for Robotic Applications in Construction Sites (RoBétArmé)
  

Topic 3 – Energy Efficency and Renewable Energy:

• Dynamic Energy Analysis of Different Heat Pump Heating Systems Exploiting Renewable Energy (InCUBE)

• An integrated life cycle assessment and life cycle costing approach towards sustainable building renovation via a dynamic online tool (InCUBE)

• BIM-Based Construction Quality Assessment Using Graph Neural Networks (HumanTech)
  

Topic 4 – Material Science and Design:

• Data driven design of alkali-activated concrete using sequential learning (Reincarnate)

• LLMs can Design Sustainable Concrete -a Systematic Benchmark (Reincarnate)

• Beyond Theory: Pioneering AI-Driven Materials Design in the Sustainable Building Material Lab (Reincarnate)

• 14 Examples of How LLMs Can Transform Materials Science and Chemistry: A Reflection on a Large Language Model Hackathon (Reincarnate)

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