About the journal
Construction Innovation is the peer-reviewed journal on innovation in the construction industry, covering process innovation, digital construction (BIM, computational design, robotics, modular methods), sustainability and circular-economy thinking in built-environment delivery, and project-management research in major capital projects.
Founded at Hodder Arnold in 2001 and subsequently moved to Emerald Publishing, the journal sits at the interface between construction-management research and innovation studies. Editorial scope includes empirical and theoretical work on construction productivity, supply-chain integration, technology adoption in construction firms, the diffusion of building information modelling, prefabrication and design-for-manufacture-and-assembly, the construction-industry response to net-zero policy, and case studies of innovation in large infrastructure programmes.
The journal originated in the Hodder Arnold programme during the brief period when Arnold was developing a built-environment journal cluster around CIBSE and the Construction Industry Council research community. Its subsequent move to Emerald placed it alongside the wider Emerald construction-management portfolio.
Scope
- construction process innovation
- IT and digital construction
- sustainability in construction
- project management research
Indexing & abstracting
- Scopus
- Compendex
- INSPEC
Indexing coverage reflects the journal’s inclusion in standard bibliographic databases during the Arnold imprint years and (where applicable) under subsequent publishers.
Bibliographic identifiers
- ISO 4 abbreviation
- Constr. Innov.
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