Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF file format.
- In the "comments to the editor" form, list at least five potential reviewers (name, affiliation, email address). There should be no professional relations among authors and reviewers.
- The submission is paginated and has line numbers (in Word see Page Layout tab).
- The submission is formatted according to ITcon rules.
- The submission has a cover page with the following elements:
- paper title
- name and email of corresponding author
- what was known before (few bulett points on what has been known about the problem before)
- what this paper contributes (few bulett points on what is the original contribution of the paper)
- Revisions need to include:
- a clean version of the paper
- response to reviewers' comments
- changes in "tracked changes"
Digital Twins for Smart and Sustainable Built Environments: Perspectives from SASBE 2025
This special issue presents a selection of outstanding papers from the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE 2025) Conference, held in Lille, France, 3–5 November 2025. SASBE 2025 brought together leading researchers and practitioners under the overarching theme of building renovation and restoration, spanning four major clusters: technologies and data for the built environment; sustainability, climate, and ecological transition; sustainable urban planning and quality of life; and management, governance, and knowledge.
This special issue focuses specifically on the theme of Digital Twins and Connected Technologies, drawing from contributions addressing real-time synchronised digital tools used to monitor, simulate, and manage buildings and urban infrastructures, including digital twins, smart technologies, IoT, sensor networks, and intelligent agents. The selected papers represent the highest-quality submissions from a pool of over 200 conference contributions, offering cutting-edge insights into how digital twin technologies are reshaping the design, operation, and sustainability performance of the built environment.
This special issue is guest edited by Professor Farzad Pour Rahimian (Loughborough University, UK), Honorary Chair of SASBE 2025, together with co-guest editors Professor Abiola Akanmu (Virginia Tech University, USA) and Dr M. Reza Hosseini (The University of Melbourne, Australia), who served as Scientific Chairs of the conference.
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