... Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Artificial intelligence (AI) Machine learning Large language models Reinforcement learning Deep learning Building information modeling (BIM) Algorithms Architecture Energy Construction...

... and blockchain technology (BCT). These technologies facilitate real-time collaboration, immersive visual environments, secure data exchange and smart decision-making processes. Seven major areas of the construction industry – project management, architectural design, urban planning, construction education, civil...

... of architecture. Design/methodology/approach The focus of the research concerns architectural exaptation. In biology, exaptation is a functional shift of a structure that already had a prior but different function. We will also learn that, in biology, all creative systems are redundant and involve variability...

...., 2013). The Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) industry, its management and its exchange of information have been extensively influenced by the rapid and innovative advancements in ICTs (Fan et al., 2014). The relationship between technology, the business of construction and law...

... study, can have positive impacts. To do this, our methodology consists in studying briefly the development of the railway, the need to improve the budgets and schedules of the projects, to increase the productivity, before showing the advantages of the BIM in the sector of the Architecture, Engineering...