Advances in Green Buildings
A special issue of Architecture (ISSN 2673-8945).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 78
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability in the built environment; green buildings; human-centric approach; life cycle management; risk management; construction project management
Interests: procurement systems and integrated project delivery; construction occupational health; safety and wellbeing; digital construction; occupational heat stress
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the world faces unprecedented challenges arising from climate change and urbanisation, the need for sustainability in the built environment has never been more critical. Green buildings are at the forefront of sustainable transformation within the built environment, but critiques have been received regarding the evolving challenges in the current adoption and implementation of green building technologies and practices. Complexity in implementation, unpredictable performance, regulatory barriers and financial constraints are amongst the bottlenecks affecting advancing green buildings to meet the global net zero goals. In addition to carbon footprint reductions, new materials and smart technologies should anticipate and respond to evolving climate conditions and human needs in real time. Broader environmental concerns and equity issues need to be tackled. To enable advances in green buildings, it is essential to re-examine the current practice and refine green building solutions to make them more inclusive, efficient and cost effective, with an enhanced adaptative ability to change cultural and regionals needs for sustainability.
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore innovative green technologies, eco-conscious design, smart ideas and climate-responsive strategies to present opportunities for advances in green buildings.
This Special Issue will focus on, but is not limited to, the following themes:
- Nature-based solutions and biophilic design;
- Passive and active design;
- Self-healing materials;
- Carbon neutral or carbon positive technologies/systems;
- Carbon sequestering materials and bio-based materials;
- Circular economy and upcycling;
- AI-driven/data-driven energy management;
- Climate-adaptative/climate-responsive architecture;
- Urban green/urban farming integration;
- Smart building water management systems;
- Living/self-sustaining buildings;
- Green building policies and regulatory frameworks.
Dr. Cheng Siew Goh
Dr. Steve Rowlinson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green buildings innovations
- carbon neutral/carbon positive solutions
- climate responsive architecture
- nature-based solutions
- circular economy
- AI-driven/data-driven energy management
- circular economy
- living buildings
- carbon policies and regulations
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