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Volume 1, Issue 2 · Online edition
Computational Construction & Infrastructure
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Risk-Calibrated Construction Schedule Forecasting
Maksym Tkachenko · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Construction schedule forecasting is often expected to do two jobs at once: estimate when work will finish and indicate how much confidence should be placed in that estimate. The construction studies examined here show that schedule risk can be represented…
Verifying BIM-to-Digital-Twin Data Consistency: A Conceptual Framework for Spatial, Semantic, and Traceable State Alignment
Pavel Lebedev · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Building information modelling (BIM) is often used as the structured basis of digital-twin environments, yet the continued consistency between BIM records and digital-twin state is rarely specified as a verifiable problem. This article asks: how can…
Human-in-the-Loop Defect Detection for Concrete Inspection: A Conformal Triage Protocol for Vision-Based Crack Screening
Daniel Hayes · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Concrete surface crack inspection is increasingly supported by lightweight deep models, yet full automation remains difficult under field conditions where cracks are slender, low-contrast, and confounded by stains, shadows, rough textures, and motion…
Computer Vision Benchmarks Under Construction-Site Occlusion: A Targeted Narrative Synthesis and Protocol for Occlusion-Aware Evaluation
Meera Deshmukh · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Construction-site perception is unusually sensitive to occlusion because relevant objects are incomplete, temporary, cluttered, and often scanned from restricted viewpoints. Existing construction computer vision studies show this problem clearly, yet…
Robust Resource Allocation Under Weather Uncertainty: A Digital-Twin and Conformal Decision Framework
Iryna Shevchenko · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Weather-sensitive resource allocation is difficult because the state of the system to be protected or served changes faster than conventional planning cycles, while the forecast inputs used for allocation remain uncertain. This article asks how operational…
Comparing Construction Carbon Estimates Across System Boundaries: A Boundary-Normalized Protocol for Materials, Maintenance, and BIM-Structured Data
Maria Volkova · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Construction carbon estimates often vary less because of arithmetic error than because analysts choose different system boundaries, life stages, and functional units. This problem is evident when low-carbon material substitutions, maintenance schedules, and…
Evidence Requirements for AI-Assisted Structural Diagnostics
Amelia Brooks · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Recent studies in AI-assisted structural inspection include systems for metric scene reconstruction from video, crack delineation linked to measurement, probabilistic fusion of inspection and monitoring data, finite-sample uncertainty quantification for…
Active Learning for Bridge Crack Annotation: A Protocol for Sample Selection in Detection and Segmentation Workflows
Arjun Mehta · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Bridge crack annotation is a bottleneck in image-based inspection because cracks are weakly contrasted, slender, irregular, and easily confounded by concrete texture, stains, shadow, and other surface patterns. Existing bridge-crack detectors and segmenters…
A Test Protocol for Construction Robot Safety Handoffs
Olena Marchenko · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Construction robot deployments often fail at the interface between automated motion and human-controlled site organization. A safety handoff is the point at which a robot is released from one operational state to another—for example, from setup to autonomous…
Measuring Rework with Traceable Design-Change Records: A Protocol for Audit-Friendly Quantification in Construction and Related Process Workflows
Dmitry Orlov · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Rework is often measured retrospectively through cost overruns, schedule delay, or defect counts, yet these proxies obscure the sequence of design changes, approvals, and re-entries that generate the deviation. This manuscript proposes a protocol for…
Scheduling Inspection Tasks with Limited Expert Capacity: A Probabilistic Priority and Human–Machine Allocation Protocol for Bridge Maintenance
Luca Moretti · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Bridge inspection programs increasingly combine remote sensing, digital twins, point clouds, vision models, and probabilistic deterioration analysis, yet scheduling remains weakly specified when expert time is limited. This protocol addresses the question:…
Uncertainty Propagation in Infrastructure Condition Scores: A Probabilistic Framework for Bridge Assessment and Bridge Management Systems
Sophia Bennett · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Infrastructure condition scores are often treated as deterministic summaries, yet bridge decisions depend on how inspection uncertainty, monitoring noise, model ambiguity, and scenario assumptions propagate into those scores. This article develops a research…
Low-Cost Sensor Fusion for Structural Health Monitoring: A Protocol for Correlating Visual Crack Detection, Virtual Sensing, and Probabilistic Deterioration Inference
Priya Nair · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Structural health monitoring (SHM) increasingly relies on heterogeneous low-cost data streams, yet practical fusion rules remain fragmented across image-based inspection, continuous sensing, and deterioration modeling. This manuscript proposes a research…
Evaluating UAV Inspection Under Adverse Lighting: A Conceptual Protocol for Robust Crack Perception, Scene Reconstruction, and Probabilistic Interpretation
Andrii Kovalenko · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Adverse lighting weakens one of the central promises of UAV-based bridge inspection: the ability to convert aerial imagery into dependable maintenance evidence. This protocol addresses a bounded question: how should a UAV inspection pipeline be evaluated when…
A Reproducible Benchmark for Construction Progress Tracking
Elena Morozova · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Construction progress tracking is often evaluated through isolated models and site-specific datasets, which makes it difficult to compare methods that use BIM, point clouds, or digital twins. This manuscript proposes a reproducible benchmark design for three…
Data Contracts for Interoperable Construction Supply Chains
Sofia Almeida · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Construction supply chains remain fragmented because project actors exchange information through heterogeneous tools, partial standards, and informal handoffs. Prior construction automation, BIM implementation, and site-digitalization studies point to…
Comparing Predictive Maintenance Policies Under Rare Failures in Bridge and Infrastructure Systems
Ethan Carter · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Rare failure events in bridge maintenance create a policy comparison problem that cannot be resolved by condition scores alone. Prior bridge research supports probabilistic deterioration assessment from inspection and monitoring, digital maintenance…
Document Retrieval Evaluation for Building-Code Assistance in Building Operations, Inspection, and BIM-Enabled Workflows
Ananya Rao · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Retrieval systems for building-code assistance are increasingly expected to support decisions in building operations, inspection, and BIM-enabled workflows, yet evaluation practice remains fragmented. This article proposes a targeted narrative synthesis and a…
Digital Traceability for Reused Construction Materials: A Conceptual Protocol for Material-Flow Visibility Across Construction and Demolition Waste Stages
Danylo Bondarenko · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Reused construction materials require traceability that links waste recognition, processing stage, and inventory state across demolition, storage, refurbishment, and re-entry into supply. Existing digital methods in construction mainly address site…
A Lifecycle Framework for Validating Generative Design in Built-Environment and Automation Pipelines
Alexei Sokolov · Editorial pseudonym · Conceptual research · Published 2026-11-03
Generative design systems are often judged by local output quality, yet implementation in built-environment and automation settings depends on whether candidate designs can be verified across successive lifecycle states: specification, synthesis, deployment,…
Worker Privacy in Construction Safety Monitoring: A Protocol for Point-Cloud Safety Inference with Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning
Ji-woo Han · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Construction safety monitoring increasingly uses point clouds and digital-twin representations to locate materials, machinery, and changing site conditions. These tools can improve hazard detection, but they can also expose worker presence, movement, task…
Resilience-Oriented Prioritization of Infrastructure Repairs: A Dependency-Aware Protocol for Flood-Affected Roads, Buildings, Drainage Assets, and Pavements
Olivia Reed · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Flood events create repair queues that exceed available crews, budgets, and materials, forcing managers to choose which assets to restore first. This protocol develops a resilience-oriented prioritization method for post-flood infrastructure repairs that…
Calibration of Foundation Settlement Surrogate Models: A Digital-Twin Protocol for Comparative Learning, Feature Optimization, and Directed Dependence Analysis
Rohan Kapoor · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Foundation settlement prediction often requires repeated numerical simulation, sparse field observations, and frequent recalibration as soil and loading conditions evolve. This protocol proposes a transferable calibration framework for surrogate models of…
Cross-Project Validation of Construction Cost Estimates: A Protocol for Transporting Cost Models Across Project Contexts
Kateryna Melnyk · Editorial pseudonym · Research protocol · Published 2026-11-03
Construction cost models are often developed within a narrow project set and then applied to projects that differ in delivery method, work scope, material choices, or organizational practice. This creates a validation problem: a model may appear accurate…