Focus and Scope

Building & Management is an open access scientific e-journal promoted by the School of Building Engineering (ETSEM) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and published every four months, three times a year, April, August, and December. It aims at the dissemination of high quality original works related to the management of processes associated to buildings, in any phase of their development, where various agents in the sectors of architecture, engineering and construction participate.

The external blinded peer-review process fits with the edition protocols of scientific publications.

TOPICS COVERED BY B&M (not restrictive)

Case studies

Due diligence

Licence management

Risk assessment management

Documentation procurement

Communication and information management: ICT, Big data,

Construction 4.0

Management of bill of quantities, estimation, analysis and costs control

Project monitoring

Deadline management

Economic, financial, equipment and human and material resources management

Technical planning management

Management of strategic planning

Design management

Management and control of changes and coordination of activities

Management of production planning and programming

Contracts and construction management

Advanced techniques of construction management

Process management in building, control and process improvement techniques

Management of occupational risk prevention and health & safety

Regulatory management and quality control

Environmental management

Management of waste and polluted soils

Water management

Materials management

Energy management

Other resources management

Building heritage management

Management of conservation, maintenance and exploitation

Facilities management

Building Management systems

Sensoring, monitoring and control

Audit of management systems

Energy Audit

Assessment of environmental impact plans, programs and projects

Energy and environmental certification

Implementation of environmental management systems

Management of hygrothermal comfort

Management of acoustic comfort

Indoor air quality management

Accessibility Management

Diagnosis and methodology

Intervention criteria

Reuse

Territory management

Urban planning

Management of environmental resources

Air quality

Training for management

Research in construction

Integrated project management

Real estate assessments

Judicial appraisal

Management of social matters