The design, construction and maintenance of urban infrastructure are permanent activities that shape the built environment and impact the sustainability of cities due to typically being large-sized projects and having a high level of intervention. More recently, infrastructure projects have been developed in an environment in which the growing demand from society and the production system for smarter, more sustainable and resilient cities, combined with global challenges, such as those imposed by climate change, has accelerated urban growth and continued to transform the urban space and technological development. All these demands have intensified the need for new approaches and methods aimed at increasing the intelligence, sustainability and resilience of urban infrastructure. Optimisation, simulation, decision making and several other tools and methods have been used to address these challenges. The purpose of this Special Edition is to integrate these three complementary axes – intelligence, sustainability and resilience – through two key themes: the first focusing on improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of the design, construction, operation, monitoring and maintenance processes, and the second focusing on improving infrastructure performance. Contributions are welcome from academics, practitioners and students from any discipline or country, and multidisciplinary contributions will be encouraged. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to: Infrastructure life cycle assessment; Technology innovation; Sensing technologies, real-time data acquisition and analysis; Smart infrastructure management systems; BIM; Cleaner production; Smart and sustainable infrastructure project management practices; Smart and sustainable design, construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning practices; Sustainability indicators for infrastructure projects; Methodologies and tools to reduce the environmental, economic and social impacts of infrastructure projects; Drivers for increasing the intelligence, sustainability and resilience of infrastructure projects; Green Infrastructure; Optimisation, simulation and decision-making methods; Advanced design, construction, operation, maintenance techniques; Infrastructure safety; Structural health monitoring; Recent case studies (lessons learned).
Keywords: sustainability; resilience; built environment; infrastructure; smart cities.