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Rethinking Buildings Design, Construction and Management Through Sustainable Technologies and Digitization

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A technological development not threatening natural and human life is one of the core concepts of sustainability. In the construction sector, which is worldwide responsible of a huge consumption of energy and natural resources, thus strongly impacting on climate change, sustainability requires a prompt transition towards eco-friendly, smart and resilient buildings. However, despite the current Forth Industrial Revolution, where many sectors have been able to transform themselves improving productivity while lowering the environmental impact, construction is still suffering from several intrinsic backwardness. A new approach is required. Sustainable product innovation and process digitalization are established roadmaps to reinventing construction throughout the whole building life-cycle: conception and design, planning and execution, operation and maintenance, end-of-life, reuse and recycling. This paper goes back over the major research results achieved by Construction division of the Department of Civil and Building Engineering and Architecture of Università Politecnica delle Marche in this context. It also outlines the emerging challenges and future directions of the research in this long-established sector.

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  1. Department of Civil and Building Engineering and Architecture, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy

    Alessandro Carbonari, Elisa Di Giuseppe, Marco D’Orazio, Alberto Giretti, Massimo Lemma, Placido Munafò, Berardo Naticchia, Enrico Quagliarini & Massimo Vaccarini

  2. Department of Materials, Environmental Sciences and Urban Planning, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy

    Francesca Stazi

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Carbonari, A. et al. (2019). Rethinking Buildings Design, Construction and Management Through Sustainable Technologies and Digitization. In: Longhi, S., Monteriù, A., Freddi, A., Frontoni, E., Germani, M., Revel, G. (eds) The First Outstanding 50 Years of “Università Politecnica delle Marche”. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32762-0_20

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