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

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

📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue

JOURNAL Facilities

PUBLISHER: Emerald Publishing

SUBMISSION OPENS: 02 February 2026

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 06 September 2026

ABOUT THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

Despite longstanding work on digitalization in the built environment sector, practitioners frequently question the rationale for adopting digital technologies. From their point of view, digital technologies often represent uncertain investments with unclear returns, limited integration with existing practices, and ambiguous value propositions. Consequently, the burden of proof lies with researchers, managers, and technology providers to demonstrate tangible, measurable, and context-specific value.

While digital technologies and PropTech solutions are increasingly used in the built environment, the value of digitalization and digital transformation remain insufficiently understood. Research still lacks coherent frameworks for assessing the value and impact of adopting digital technologies and digitally transforming work for stakeholders in the built environment sector.

This Special Issue seeks to identify established and emerging use cases and examine their implications for efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and value creation. It also explores why actors adopt digital technologies, how value is conceptualized and measured, and what empirically observed impacts these technologies generate.

We invite contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including facility management, architecture, building engineering, environmental sciences, finance, business and organizational studies, ICT, service design, and policy. Submissions may include case studies, comparative pre- and post-adoption analyses, methodological frameworks, and evidence-based evaluations, offering both qualitative and quantitative insights.

SCOPE & THEME AREAS

We invite submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:

1. Conceptualizing and measuring value — How is the value of digital technologies conceptualized and measured across different contexts in the built environment?

2. Value creation opportunities and challenges — What opportunities and challenges exist related to value creation for individuals, organizations, and wider socio-technical systems?

3. Adoption and usability of digital technologies — What factors influence the adoption, usability, and integration of digital technologies in built environment practices?

4. ESG implications — What are the economic, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) implications of digital technologies in the built environment?

5. Measurable effects of digitalization — What are the measurable effects — both positive and negative — of digitalization in the built environment?

GUEST EDITORS

Chiara Tagliaro ✉️ Contact via journal submission system

Olli Vigren ✉️ Contact via journal submission system

Alice Paola Pomé ✉️ Contact via journal submission system

Alissa Cooperman ✉️ Contact via journal submission system

KEY DEADLINES & DATES

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

How to submit: Manuscripts must be submitted via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/f

Author guidelines: Must be strictly followed. Full guidelines available at: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/f#jlp_author_guidelines

Selecting the special issue: At the appropriate submission step, authors must select the special issue title from the drop-down menu in response to "Please select the issue you are submitting to."

Eligibility: Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication elsewhere while under review.

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