Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Infrastructure construction is a material- and labour-intensive task which results in massive environmental burdens. After natural disasters due to global warming and human calamity, a new concept has emerged, which is called resilient infrastructure. Resilient infrastructure underpins many approaches and technologies that lead to an energy-efficient, eco-friendly, and sustainable life cycle. It should be noted that the environmental burdens of infrastructure assets in the utility phase may be higher than construction and recycling phases. Therefore, it is essential to analyse energy feedstocks and carbon footprints of infrastructure assets from the cradle to the grave. However, one of the most energy-intense phases of the infrastructure industry is the construction phase. Any change, resulting in energy conservation, is a form of investment for a green economy because the infrastructure assets encompass a wide range of facilities in socio-economic development as follows:

• Water and wastewater;
• Waste management;
• Energy production and distribution;
• Buildings;
• Recreation facilities;
• Communication;
• Transportation.

To overcome the challenges of development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure, it is necessary to benefit from cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, machine learning, novel approaches, sophisticated analytical models, and research.

This Special Issue provides a platform to publish world-class research to pave the way toward sustainable construction infrastructure. All authors, researchers, technologists, developers, business staff, technicians, and vendors are invited to submit their research papers, review papers, state-of-the-art of technology/material, book reviews, discussions, or short comments on sustainable construction infrastructure relating to one or more of the following topics:

Carbon footprint;

Digital transformation;

Artificial intelligence;

Machine learning;

Pavement;

Fuel consumption;

Life cycle analysis;

Concrete;

Metal manufacturing;

Asphalt;

Concrete;

Nano material;

Nano technology;

Data science;

Waste material;

Water resources

Roads;

Airports;

Ports;

Railway;

Photovoltaic technology;

Renewable energy.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Ali Jamshidi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Infrastructures is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• Sustainable infrastructure material
• sustainable construction
• concrete pavement
• asphalt pavement
• heavy-duty pavement
• infrastructure asset management