Dates/Location

The next ISIC conference will be held in Guimaraes, Portugal from September 7-9, in 2022. It will be hosted by Prof. Antonio Gomes Correia of the University of Minho. The webpage will be redirected to the ISIC 2022 webpage once it is available.

Welcome Message

The next International Conference of the International Society for Intelligent Construction (ISIC 2022) will be held in Guimarães, Portugal, from September 7 to 9, 2022. The theme of ISIC 2022 is “Trends on Construction in the Post-Digital Era.” The historic town center of Guimarães is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2001. The conference will be hosted by our team at the University of Minho. In 2019, ISIC renamed the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG), launched in Guimarães during the 3rd International Conference of Transportation Geotechnics in 2016.

ISIC 2022 will be our third international conference, following the first one of the IICTG in Minnesota, USA, in 2017 and the second one in Beijing, China, in 2019. ISIC 2022 will follow our mission to serve as a unique platform for promoting intelligent construction applications to improve the quality of construction, cost-saving, the resilience of infrastructure from climate changes, and risk reduction. To achieve those goals, a holistic approach is essential from multidisciplinary fields, including civil engineering, construction machinery, electronic sensor technology, survey/testing technologies, information technology/computing, etc. In this digital era, it is our vision to address societal issues for humans’ wellbeing in their physical environments. We anticipate the ISIC 2022 will be well attended by agencies, industries, academics, and consultants in the above fields from all over the world.

On behalf of the organizing committee, I am honored to invite you to the ISIC 2022 in the beautiful city of Guimarães from September 7 to 9, 2022!

Sincerely

Prof. Antonio Gomes Correia University of Minho, Portugal

Theme

The theme of ISIC 2022 is “Trends on Construction in the Post-Digital Era“.

Organizing Committee

Topics for Presentations/Papers

  • Additive Manufacturing and Construction
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Design and Built Environment
  • Advanced and Edge computing
  • Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • City Information Modeling (CIM) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • Collaborative and Participative Design
  • Construction Automation and Robotics
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Data Science and Standards
  • Design Concepts and Strategies
  • Digital Fabrication Development and Implementation
  • Environmental Protection
  • Form Finding, Topology and Structural Morphology
  • High Precision Survey and Mapping
  • Improved Energy Efficient Building Operations
  • Infrastructure Life-Cycle Management
  • Intelligent Building Control Systems
  • Intelligent Construction Sites
  • Intelligent Maintenance Technologies
  • Internet of Things (IoT) in Architecture and Construction
  • Intelligent and Sustainable Environments
  • Machine Automation
  • Real-Time Construction Monitoring
  • Smart Cities
  • Simulation, Prediction and Evaluation
  • Emerging Technologies

Daily Program

  • Day 1 – Short Courses and Workshops
  • Day 2 – Honors Lectures, Main Lectures, Subcommittee Reports
  • Day 3 – Technical Sessions

Conference Publication

The conference publication will be indexed in WoS, Scopus, and associated journals

Sponsors

We are anticipating the following non-financial sponsors:

ASCE, DFI, ISSMGE, FHWA, International Association of Structures and Architecture, PFP-Portuguese Railway Platform, Plataforma Tecnológica Portuguesa da Construção, Advanced Ceramics R&D Lab, DTx Colab – Digital Transformation CoLab, Built Colab, APPIA-Sociedade Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial, ECTP – European Construction Technology Platform, ECTP-European Built Environment, ERTRAC- European Road Transport Research Advisory Council, Construction Products Europe AISBL, the Portuguese CoLAB “BUILT CoLAB”.

We are anticipating the following financial sponsors:

IP – Infraestruturas de Portugal (Roads and Railways); Brisa Auto-Estradas de Portugal, SA., ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, Mota-Engil, Construsoft, Betar, China Railways, China Roads, China Civil Aviation Airport Engineering Technology Research Center

Venue

The conference venue will be at Cultural Centre Vila Flor.

Local Attractions

Guimarães is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, in recognition for being an “exceptionally well-preserved and authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town” in Europe.