New Trends of Sustainability in Civil Engineering and Architecture Ⅱ

Dear Colleagues,

The global concern for climate change, global warming, and increasing pollution has made it imperative for the policy makers throughout the world to devise green strategies for a sustainable future. Within this context, the Civil Engineering and Architecture fields play an important role in reaching that aim.

The construction industry remains a major target for environmental sustainability due to its consumption of the largest portion of materials resources, water, and energy and contributing to landfill sites. The sustainability of the industry depends on how well it manages waste minimization, durability of the materials used (contributor to sustainability due to the high environmental impact of maintenance, repairs, and replacement), and reducing waste during the construction, but also using green materials, lessening energy consumption, saving water, and preserving indoor quality, among others. Therefore, several possible strategies to perform a sustainable action in the construction industry go through reducing, reusing, and recycling residues, which once processed can become profitable alternatives for being used as building materials, with the added value of increasing the lifetime of landfills and requiring a lower extraction of natural raw materials.

Furthermore, within civil engineering and architecture, urban development, mobility, and transportation are important areas of study, in which there is a wide scope for developing strategies related to sustainability, especially focused on the reduction of CO₂ emissions. In addition to this, it is important to emphasize the increasing use of the relatively recent building information modeling (BIM) methodologies, which will be also very useful in managing sustainability aspects related to construction projects in the near future. That is why promoting sustainable policies regarding civil engineering and architecture are becoming extremely important nowadays.

In 2019, the first edition of the Special Issue “New Trends of Sustainability in Civil Engineering and Architecture”, conducted by this team of guest editors, was developed with success and had a good reception by researchers. With the present second edition of this Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, our intention is to give continuity to the abovementioned first volume, welcoming research papers reporting studies, strategies or practical cases related to sustainability in the civil engineering and architecture fields.

Prof. Dr. José Marcos Ortega
Prof. Dr. Antonio José Tenza-Abril
Prof. Dr. Teresa Real-Herraiz
Guest Editors

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