We are pleased to announce the winners of the Buildings 2023 Best Paper Award. All the papers published in Buildings (ISSN: 2075-5309) from 1 January to 31 December 2023 were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, taking into account both citations and downloads, five winners were selected. 

Section “Architectural Design”
“Perception of Color in Architecture and Urban Space”
by Anna Jaglarz
Buildings 2023, 13(8), 2000; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13082000

Section “Building Energy”
“Comparative Analysis of ANN and LSTM Prediction Accuracy and Cooling Energy Savings through AHU-DAT Control in an Office Building”
by Byeongmo Seo, Yeobeom Yoon, Kwang Ho Lee and Soolyeon Cho
Buildings 2023, 13(6), 1434; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13061434

Section “Building Materials”
“Bending Properties and Vibration Characteristics of Dowel-Laminated Timber Panels Made with Short Salvaged Timber Elements”
by Lorenzo Giordano, Mohammad Derikvand and Gerhard Fink
Buildings 2023, 13(1), 199; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010199

Section “Building Structures”
“Experimental Study on Inner Interface Mechanical Properties of the ESDCM Pile with Steel Core”
by Hua Bao, Jie Peng, Zhangjianing Cheng, Junqing Hong and Yuan Gao
Buildings 2023, 13(2), 486; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020486

Section “Construction Management”
“Robot-Enabled Construction Assembly with Automated Sequence Planning Based on ChatGPT: RoboGPT”
by Hengxu You, Yang Ye, Tianyu Zhou, Qi Zhu and Jing Du
Buildings 2023, 13(7), 1772; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13071772

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Buildings in 2025 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Buildings 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of our journal.

Buildings Editorial Office