ITcon Special Issue

Digital Twins for Smart and Sustainable Built Environments: Perspectives from SASBE 2025

editor(s) Editor:
Prof Farzad Rahimian, Loughborough University, UK

Co-editors:
Professor Abiola Akanmu, Virginia Tech University – USA
Dr M. Reza Hosseini, The University of Melbourne – Australia
summary 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.

Papers in this special issue

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