“Assessing the Value and Impact of Digital Transformation in the Built Environment”

Call for Papers – Special Issue: “Assessing the Value and Impact of Digital Transformation in the Built Environment”

Journal: Facilities
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Submission deadline: 06 September 2026

Overview

This special issue—published by Emerald—aims to provide a coherent, evidence-based understanding of the value and impact generated by digital transformation in the built environment. Despite widespread technology adoption, practitioners often struggle to justify the rationale for these investments due to unclear value propositions and uncertain returns. The issue seeks research that moves beyond implementation challenges to demonstrate tangible, measurable, and context-specific value—whether quantitative (efficiency, financial KPIs) or qualitative (decision-making, sustainability, service quality).

Key Research Themes

• Value Conceptualization & Measurement: Frameworks for assessing the value of digital technologies for individuals, organizations, and socio-technical systems.

• Impact Evaluation: Evidence-based analysis of the economic, social, environmental (ESG), and organizational impacts of digital technologies in facilities management, real estate, and construction.

• Use Cases & Adoption: Examination of established and emerging digital use cases, including why actors adopt them and the resulting implications for effectiveness and sustainability.

• Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Research integrating insights from facility management, architecture, building engineering, finance, organizational studies, and service design.

Submission Details

• Submission window: 02 February 2026 – 06 September 2026.

• Submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/f

• Special Instructions: You must select the special issue title from the drop-down menu during the submission process.

• Submission Standards: The journal welcomes case studies, comparative pre/post-adoption analyses, methodological frameworks, and empirical evaluations. All manuscripts must strictly adhere to the Facilities Author Guidelines.

Guest Editor Team

• Chiara Tagliaro, Politecnico di Milano (chiara.tagliaro@polimi.it)

• Olli Vigren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (olliky@kth.se)

• Alice Paola Pomé, Politecnico di Milano (alicepaola.pome@polimi.it)

• Alissa Cooperman, Stanford University (accoop@stanford.edu)

Why This Issue Matters

Demonstrating the value of digital technology is the next frontier for the built environment sector. This issue creates a vital body of evidence that will help researchers and managers move past the "uncertain investment" phase and toward data-driven, value-oriented digital transformation strategies.

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