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Construction Information Technology Laboratory

 

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

2024

120   Yin, M., Reja, V.K., Brilakis, I., Sheil, B., Perrotta, F., Marie d'Avigneau, A. and Lu, L. (2025) “Exploring the Value of Digital Twins for Information Management in Highway Asset Maintenance”, J. of Developments in the Built Environment, Elsevier, Vol. 21: 100614, 48p., DOI 10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100614
119   Zhu, J., Nisbet, N., Yin, M., Wei, R. and Brilakis, I. (2025) “Releasing the Power of Graph for Building Information Discovery”, J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 29p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106034
118   Zhou, S., Lin, J., Pan, P., Pan, Y. and Brilakis, I.. (2025) “Impact of Color and Mixing Proportion of Synthetic Point Clouds on Semantic Segmentation”, J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 33p.,10.1016/j.autcon.2025.105963
117   , J., Wong, M., Nisbet, N., Kelly, T., Zlatanova, S. and Brilakis, I. (2025) “Semantics-Based Connectivity Graph for Indoor Pathfinding Powered by Ifc-Graph”, J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 27p., DOI  10.2139/ssrn.4979216
116   Lu, L., Yin, M., Xie, Y., Pan, Y., Wang, M. and Brilakis, I. (2025) “Development of A Trustworthy AI-supported Digital Twin Framework for Road Operation and Maintenance”, Smart Construction, Volume 2 Issue 1, January 2025, 28p., DOI 10.55092/sc20250001
115    Marie d'Avigneau, A., Potseluyko, L., Anvo, N.R., Taha-Abdalgadir, H., Reja, V.K., Davletshina, D., Lam, P.H., de Silva, L., Al-Tabbaa, A. and Brilakis, I.  (2025) “CAMHighways: The Cambridge Highways dataset”, J. of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier, 64, March 2025, 25p., DOI  10.1016/j.aei.2024.103036
114   Buuveibaatar, M., Brilakis, I., Peck, Matt., Economides, G. and Lee, W.. (2025) “A Conceptual Framework for Planning Road Digital Twins”, Buildings, 2025, 15(3), 316, MDPI AG, January 2025, 16p., DOI 10.3390/buildings15030316
113   Zhang, J., Yang, X., Wang, W., Brilakis, I., Davletshina, D. and Wang, H. (2025) “Robust ELM-PID Tracing Control on Autonomous Mobile Robot via Transformer-based Pavement Crack Segmentation”, J. of Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, Elsevier, 242, January 2025, 16p., DOI  10.1016/j.measurement.2024.116045
112   Davletshina, D., Reja, V.K. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Automating Construction of Road Digital Twin Geometry Using Context and Location Aware Segmentation", J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 168(A), December 2024, 17p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105795
111   Kookalani, S., Parn, E., Brilakis, I., Dirar, S., Theofanous, M., Faramarzi, A., Mahdavipour, M.A. and Feng, Q. (2024) "Trajectory of Building and Structural Design Automation from Generative Design Towards the Integration of Deep Generative Models and Optimization: A Review", J. of Building Engineering, Elsevier, 97, November 2024, 35p., DOI 10.1016/j.jobe.2024.110972
110   Xu, J., Anvo, N.R., Taha-Abdalgadir, H., Marie d'Avigneau, A., Palin, D., Wei, R., Hadjidemetriou, G., Schaefer, S., de Silva, L., Iida, F., Al-Tabbaa, A. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Highway Digital Twin-Enabled Autonomous Maintenance Plant (AMP): A Perspective", J. of Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Press, accepted
109   Wang, M., Wang, C.C., Zlatanova, S., Shen, X. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "A Streamlined Laser Scanning Verticality Check Method for Installation of Prefabricated Wall Panels", J. of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, accepted
108   Pan, Y., Wang, M., Lu, L., Wei, R., Cavazzi, S., Peck, M. and Brilakis, I., (2024) "Scan-to-Graph: Automatic Generation and Representation of Highway Geometric Digital Twins from Point Cloud Data", J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 166, October 2024, 13p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105654
107   Jiang, Y, Su, S., Zhao, S., Zhong, R.Y., Qiu, W., Skibniewski, M.J., Brilakis, I. and Huang, G.Q. (2024) "Digital Twin-Enabled Synchronized Construction Management: A Roadmap from Construction 4.0 towards Future Prospect", J. of Developments in the Built Environment, Elsevier, 19, October 2024, 22p., DOI 10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100512
106   Lin, X., Lu, Q., Chen, L. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Assessing Dynamic Congestion Risks of Flood-disrupted Transportation Network Systems through Time-variant Topological Analysis and Traffic Demand Dynamics", J. of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier, 62(A), October 2024, 15p., DOI 10.1016/j.aei.2024.102672
105   Malihi, S., Potseluyko, L., Mathew, A., Alavi, H., Reja, V.K.., Pan, Y., Binni, L., Wang, G., Wang, X. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Review of multimodal data and their applications for road maintenance", J. of Smart Construction, ELSP, 1(2), September 2024, 39p., DOI 10.55092/sc20240010
104   Drobnyi, V., Li, S. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Digitisation of Existing Buildings with Arbitrary Shaped Spaces from Point Clouds", J. of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 38(5), September 2024, 12p., DOI 10.1061/JCCEE5.CPENG-5853
103   Zhang, Y., Marie d’Avigneau, A., Hadjidemetriou, G., de Silva, L., Girolami, M. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Bayesian Dynamic Modelling for Probabilistic Prediction of Pavement Condition", J. of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, 133(F), July 2024, 13p., DOI 10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108637
102   Chen, J., Chan, I. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Shifting Research from Defect Detection to Defect Modelling in Computer Vision-based Structural Health Monitoring", J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 164, May 2024, 16p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105481
101   Zhang, J., Yang, X., Wang, W., Brilakis, I., Davletshina, D., Wang, H. and Cao, M. (2024) "Segment-to-track for Pavement Crack with Light-Weight Neural Network on Unmanned Wheeled Robot", J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 161, May 2024, 15p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105346
100   Drobnyi, V., Li, S., and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Connectivity Detection for Automatic Construction of Building Geometric Digital Twins", J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 159, March 2024, 14p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105281
99   Jacobsen, E.L., Teizer, J., Wandahl, S. and Brilakis, I. (2024) "Probabilistic Forecasting of Construction Labour Productivity Metrics", J. of Information Technology in Construction, Elsevier, 29, February 2024, pp. 58-83, 26p., DOI 10.36680/j.itcon.2024.004

2023

98   Hu, Z. and Brilakis, I. (2023) "Matching design-intent planar, curved, and linear structural instances in point clouds", Automation in Construction, V.158, November 2023, DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105219
97   Ariyachandra, M. R. M. F. and Brilakis, I. (2023) "Leveraging railway topology to automatically generate track geometric information models from airborne LiDAR data", Automation in Construction, V.155, November 2023, DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105068
96   Xie, H., Hong, Y., Xin, M., Brilakis, I. and Shi, O. (2023) “Identification and Analysis of Communication Barriers for Construction Projects with Time Uncertainties”, J. of Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Emerald Publishing, August 2023, 29p, DOI 10.1108/ECAM-07-2022-0669
95   Drobnyi, V., Hu, Z., Fathy, Y. and Brilakis, I. (2023) "Construction and Maintenance of Building Geometric Digital Twins: State of the Art Review", Sensors, 23(9), 4382, April 2023, DOI 10.3390/s23094382
94   Trzeciak, M. and Brilakis, I. (2023) "Dense 3D reconstruction of building scenes by AI-based camera-lidar fusion and odometry", J. of Computing in Civil Engineering, 48 p., ASCE, DOI 10.1061/JCCEE5/CPENG-4909
93   Trzeciak, M., Pluta, K., Fathy, Y., Alcalde, L., Chee, S., Bromley, A., Brilakis, I., and Alliez, P. (2023) "ConSLAM: Construction Dataset for SLAM", J. of Computing in Civil Engineering, 37(3), March 2023, 38 p., ASCE, DOI 10.1061/JCCEE5/CPENG-5212
92   Pan, Y., Braun, A., Borrmann, A. and Brilakis, I., (2023). "3D deep-learning-enhanced void-growing approach in creating geometric digital twins of buildings". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Smart Infrastructure and Construction, ICE, Dec 2022, pp.1-17. DOI 10.1680/jsmic.21.00035

2022

91   Rogage, K., Mahamedi, E., Brilakis, I. and Kassem, M. (2022) "Beyond Digital Shadows: A Digital Twin for monitoring earthwork operation in large infrastructure projects", J. of AI in Civil Engineering, 1(7), December 2022, 24 p., Springer, DOI 10.1007/s43503-022-00009-5
90   Tetteh, M.O, Chan, P.C., Darko, A., Jafari, A., Chen, W., Brilakis, I. and Chen, CST (2022) "Scientometric mapping of global research on green retrofitting of existing buildings (GREB): Pathway towards a holistic GREB framework", J. of Energy & Buildings, Elsevier,  277,  October 2022, 20p, DOI 10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112532
89   Hong, Y., Xie, H., Brilakis, I., & Bhumbra, G. (2022) "Improving the accuracy of schedule information communication between humans and data". J. of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier, May 2022. DOI 10.17863/CAM.84980
88   Pan, Y., Braun, A., Brilakis, I. and Borrmann, A. (2022) "Enriching Geometric Digital Twins of Buildings with Small Objects by Fusing Laser Scanning and AI-based Image Recognition", J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 140, August 2022, 19p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104375
87   Hong, Y., Xie, H., Hovhannisyan, V. and Brilakis, I. (2022) "A graph-based approach for unpacking construction sequence analysis to evaluate schedules", J. of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier, 52, April 2022, 16p., DOI 10.1016/j.aei.2022.101625
86   Assadzadeh, A., Arashpour, M., Brilakis, I., Ngo, T. and Konstantinou, E. (2022) "Vision-Based Excavator Pose Estimation Using Synthetically Generated Datasets with Domain Randomization", J. of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 134, February 2022, 12 p., DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.104089
85   Argyroudis, S.A., Mitoulis, S.A., Chatzi, E., Baker, J.W., Brilakis, I., Gkoumas, K., Vousdoukas, M., Hynes, W., Carluccio, S., Keou, O., Frangopol, M.D. and Linkov, I. (2022) "Digital Technologies Can Enhance Global Climate Resilience of Critical Infrastructure", J. of Climate Risk Management, Elsevier, 35, January 2022, 24 p., DOI 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100387
84   Fitzsimmons, J.P., Lu, R., Hong, Y. and Brilakis, I. (2022) "Construction Schedule Risk Analysis – A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach", J. of Information Technology in Construction, 27, January 2022, pp. 70-93, 24 p., DOI 10.36680/j.itcon.2022.004