Challenges for Sustainable Building: Innovation, Development and Characterisation of New Material Products and Systems, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 674
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; energy monitoring of buildings; energy simulation of buildings; thermographic and air tightness analysis in buildings; diagnosis and energy optimisation of heritage buildings; development of instrumentation based on open source platforms (OSP) and the Internet of Things (IoT)
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Interests: construction materials; sustainability; building management; energy efficiency; building physics; waste management; circular economy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The building sector has recently evolved towards the development of more sustainable and efficient construction systems. The creation of new materials under the circular economy criteria that allow for the recovery and revaluation of construction and demolition waste (CDW) is one of the great challenges currently facing the European Union.
Therefore, this Special Issue aims to provide a space for research focused on the sustainability and efficient management of natural resources within the building sector, promoting the development of more efficient materials and construction systems with a lower carbon footprint, thereby allowing progress towards net-zero emission buildings (NZEBs).
Dear Colleagues, we strongly encourage you to contribute your invaluable research on building engineering via this Special Issue.
Some of the main topics that apply to this Special Issue are as follows:
- Management of construction and demolition waste (CDW);
- Energy efficiency in building;
- Development of new building systems and products;
- Introduction of technological innovations in building construction;
- Development of new monitoring and measuring equipment in building/construction;
- Construction and building materials;
- Composite materials for building engineering;
- Development and energy efficiency in building facilities;
- Hygrothermal comfort and indoor air quality.
Dr. Alexander Martín Garín
Dr. Daniel Ferrández Vega
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- construction and building materials
- construction and demolition waste
- energy efficiency
- comfort
- new measuring equipment in building
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