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.\u00a0The purpose of this Special Edition is to integrate these three complementary axes \u2013 intelligence, sustainability and resilience \u2013 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.\u00a0Contributions 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;\u00a0Technology innovation;\u00a0Sensing technologies, real-time data acquisition and analysis;\u00a0Smart infrastructure management systems;\u00a0BIM;\u00a0Cleaner production;\u00a0Smart and sustainable infrastructure project management practices;\u00a0Smart and sustainable design, construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning practices;\u00a0Sustainability indicators for infrastructure projects;\u00a0Methodologies and tools to reduce the environmental, economic and social impacts of infrastructure projects;\u00a0Drivers for increasing the intelligence, sustainability and resilience of infrastructure projects;\u00a0Green Infrastructure;\u00a0Optimisation, simulation and decision-making methods;\u00a0Advanced design, construction, operation, maintenance techniques;\u00a0Infrastructure safety;\u00a0Structural health monitoring;\u00a0Recent case studies (lessons learned).
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