Design & Engineering — Construction Technology — Maintenance & Management



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.

This journal is supported by the following organisations:
- Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)
- International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)
- International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (C.I.B.)

Original papers
review articles
short communications
letters to the editor
forthcoming meetings

Editor-in-Chief
Miroslaw J. Skibniewski
University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, United States Email Miroslaw J. Skibniewski
Associate Editors
F. Bosché
The University of Edinburgh School of Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Email F. Bosché
D. Castro-Lacouture
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States Email D. Castro-Lacouture
F. Leite
University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States Email F. Leite
H. Li
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom Email H. Li
Z. Ma
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Email Z. Ma
Z. Turk
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Email Z. Turk
Y. Zhou
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Email Y. Zhou
Reviews Editor
H. Li
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Email H. Li
Editorial Board
B. Akinci
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
D. Arditi
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States
C. Balaguer
University Carlos III of Madrid - Getafe Campus, Leganes, Spain
T. Bock
Technical University of Munich, Germany
I. Brilakis
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
E. Budny
Institute of Mechanised Construction and Rock Mining, Warszawa, Poland
J. Cheng
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
M.-Y. Cheng
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, RoC
L.-Y. Ding
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
M. Fischer
Stanford University, CA, United States
M. Golparvar-Fard
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Q. Ha
University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia
C. Haas
University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
M. Hajdu
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
V. Kamat
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
T. Kvan
The University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, Vic., Australia
T.-S. Lee
Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea
H. Luo
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
O. Moselhi
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
B. -Y. Ryoo
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States
R. Sacks
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
P. Szynkarczyk
Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, Warszawa, Poland
R. Tadeusiewicz
AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
J. Teizer
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
H.-P. Tserng
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
K. Varghese
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
L.F. Xiao, PhD
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Building Services Engineering, Hong Kong, China
W.-D. Yu
Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
E.K. Zavadskas
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
L. Zhang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore