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Digital Technology-Empowered Innovation and Application for Building Engineering Education

edited by

and Lin Chen

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10877 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital education; engineering education; teaching innovation; visualization technology; education for wisdom; intelligent tutoring system

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Advance in BIM-Based Technologies for Sustainable Building Performance Predictions

edited by

Woon Seong Jeong

and

Sang-Guk Yum

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6393 | Submission Open

Keywords: building design; construction processes; construction management; building information modeling (BIM); off-site construction; modular construction; design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA); sustainable construction methods and technologies; digital twins in the construction industry; artificial intelligence in scheduling; simulation-based methods for construction scheduling and virtual construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Building Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort: Synergies and Challenges

edited by Ran Wang and Quanyi Lin

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 2974 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal comfort flexibility; energy demand response; building energy flexibility; cooperative optimization; flexible control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Functional Improvement, Characterization and Simulation of Cement-Based Materials

edited by

Dongyi Lei

, Ying Li,

Yang Li

,

Penggang Wang

and Yupeng Tian

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1875 | Submission Open

Keywords: cement-based materials; severe service environment; microstructure design; mechanical properties; durability; electromagnetic protection; finite element simulation; fiber modification; service life prediction; manufactured aggregate; environmentally friendly binder

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Computational Mechanics Analysis of Composite Structures

edited by Linxin Peng, Jiahua Yang, Peng Tang and

Xiaodan Teng

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 547 | Submission Open

Keywords: composite materials; computational mechanics; high-performance computing; multi-scale modeling; artificial intelligence and machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Application of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials in Building and Bridge Applications

edited by Raafat El-Hacha

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: material behavior; including bond; durability; fatigue; and long-term performance; fabrication; processing; and testing methods; analysis and design; applications in structural concrete with or without prestressing; applications in wood; masonry; and steel structures; strengthening and rehabilitation of structures; seismic performance and retrofit; structural health monitoring and intelligent sensing; fire resistance; extreme condition performance; hybrid structural members; structural shapes and fully composite systems; anchorage systems and connections; innovative structural systems; full-scale testing; field applications and case studies; codes and standards; sustainability and life-cycle cost

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Advances in Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)

edited by

Giovanni Semprini

,

Aminhossein Jahanbin

and

Simone Secchi

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 20581 | Submission Open

Keywords: building physics; indoor air quality; thermal comfort; acoustic and visual comfort; ventilation; HVAC systems; pollutant dispersion in a built environment; control of airborne infectious disease; CFD application in a built environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Intelligent Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methodologies in Building and Construction Management—2nd Edition

edited by

Seyyed Ahmad Edalatpanah

and

Jurgita Antucheviciene

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2560 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-criteria decision-making; measurement of performance in construction; computational intelligence; optimization in construction management; multi-attribute decision-making; digital twins and smart cities; sustainable construction; risk and safety management; building information modeling; building management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

UHPC Materials: Structural and Mechanical Analysis in Buildings

edited by Shu Fang, Yang Zou,

Xiaoqing Xu

and Zhuangcheng Fang

submission deadline 16 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3483 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC); structural and mechanical analysis; innovative UHPC materials; UHPC modular structures; novel modular structures; strengthening of existing infrastructures; static and dynamic performance; design; performance; and construction techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Inclusion, Safety, and Resilience in the Construction Industry

edited by Sainan Lyu,

Jingyu Yu

, Beibei Zhang,

Xiaoyan Jiang

and

Peng Cui

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 38363 | Submission Open

Keywords: multicultural safety management; multicultural workforces; training and upskilling; construction safety and health; mental health and well-being; risk management; urban resilience; sustainable construction; resilient investment strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Research on Performance of Buildings Structures and Materials

edited by

Alireza Bahrami

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 23657 | Submission Open

Keywords: timber structures; reinforced concrete structures; steel-concrete composite structures; steel structures; masonry structures; green concrete; building materials; performance and behavior of structures and building materials; experimental investigation; numerical modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Advanced Studies on Strength and Cracking of Prestressed and Reinforced Concrete Structures

edited by

Marco Bonopera

and

Kuo-Chun Chang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15414 | Submission Open

Keywords: concrete; cracking; durability; limit-state behavior; mechanical strength; nondestructive testing; numerical modeling; prestressed structure; reinforced structure; service conditions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Recent Studies in Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Engineering Structures

edited by

Xinzhi Dang

, Zhihao Wang, Junfeng Jia,

Xinxin Wei

and Murat Dicleli

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13335 | Submission Open

Keywords: engineering structures; dynamic behaviour; static behaviour; new investigations; new insights; new structures; new loads

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Advances in Soil-Structure Interaction for Building Structures

edited by Yu Tian, Ran Yuan and Wei Sun

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 9995 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil-structure interaction; deformation compatibility condition; contact surface; soil constitutive theory; substructure method; multiscale numerical simulation; computational method

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Numerical and Experimental Research on Steel-Concrete Composite Structural Systems

edited by Jizhi Zhao,

Muxuan Tao

and Liangdong Zhuang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8286 | Submission Open

Keywords: composite structures seismic performance; structural analysis; numerical simulation; machine learning; mechanical behavior; composite structural systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Research on the Structural Mechanics of Steel–Concrete Composite Structures

edited by

Han Su

and Qikai Sun

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7000 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural engineering; steel– concrete structure; risk analysis; structural safety; construction material; structural dynamics; structural design method; structural durability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

The State-of-the-Art Technologies for Zero-Energy Buildings

edited by

Małgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak

and

Beata Sadowska

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6457 | Submission Open

Keywords: ZEB and nZEB; LCA; energy efficiency; renewable energy sources; comfort; energy retrofitting of buildings; historic buildings; carbon footprint

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Mechanical Properties of Advanced Metal Structures in Civil Infrastructure

edited by Xiaowei Liao, Haohui Xin, Fangxin Hu,

Zhe Xing

and Nanting Yu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5840 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-performance steel materials; aluminium alloy; additive manufacturing; seismic resilience; buckling; fire; fatigue; welding stress; numerical analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Structural Safety Evaluation and Health Monitoring

edited by Lizhao Dai, Wei Zhang, Sun-Jin Han and

Dichuan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5207 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning techniques; durability of constructed facilities; performance evaluation; digital twins; finite element modelling; nondestructive testing; smart construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Healthy, Low-Carbon and Resilient Built Environments

edited by

Yingdong He

and

Ninaping Li

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3925 | Submission Open

Keywords: human health; carbon neutralization; thermal comfort; indoor air quality; emission reduction; building energy system; intelligent building technologies; resilient buildings

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Safety Assessment in Civil Engineering

edited by

Bin Huang

,

Zhifeng Wu

and Hui Chen

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3592 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; damage detection; model updating; machine learning; intelligent techniques; finite element modeling; resilience against disasters; risk assessment; disaster prevention and reduction; building life cycle assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Structural Assessment and Strengthening of Masonry Structures

edited by

Dorina Nicolina Isopescu

,

Sebastian George Maxineasa

,

Dragoș Ungureanu

and Cătălin Onuțu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1913 | Submission Open

Keywords: masonry structures; experimental study; seismic assessment; historical masonry; masonry-strengthening techniques; life cycle assessment; carbon footprint

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Concrete Technology

edited by Harifidy Ranaivomanana

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1771 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-carbon cements; mineral additions in cements; microstructure of concrete; pore structure of concrete; transport properties in cements; mechanical properties of concrete

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Capacity Assessment of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structures

edited by

Charis Apostolopoulos

,

Konstantinos Koulouris

and Maria Basdeki

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1598 | Submission Open

Keywords: steel corrosion; concrete durability; corroded RC structures; mechanical properties of rebar; steel– concrete bond loss; pitting corrosion; assessment of bearing capacity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Recycled Aggregate Concrete as Building Materials

edited by Xuefei Chen

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 733 | Submission Open

Keywords: recycled aggregates; construction wastes; concrete; sustainable construction; circular economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

The Application of Intelligence Techniques in Construction Materials

edited by Xiaorui Zhang, Weijie Zhang, Jingmin Xu and Songqiang Chen

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent building system; artificial intelligence; advanced building material; construction structure; renewable energy integration; green building strategy; building assessment and management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Advances in Multifunctional/Smart Concrete Materials and Structures

edited by

Sufen Dong

and Zhen Li

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: nano/fiber reinforced concrete materials and structures; multifunctional/smart concrete materials and structures; structural health monitoring of concrete; (ultra) high-performance concrete materials and structures; multifunctional cement concrete and smart structures; multifunctional/smart pavement materials and structures; digital and intelligent materials and structural design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Seismic Performance and Design of Retaining Structures

edited by

Ali Lashgari

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open

Keywords: retaining walls; seismic design; soil– structure interaction; site response; probabilistic assessment; liquefaction; energy infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Advances in Modern Structural Engineering: From Materials to Building Structures

edited by

Zhihua Chen

, Yiyi Zhou,

Hongbo Liu

and Hai Zhang

submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4238 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural engineering; high-performance materials; high-efficiency buildings; steel and composite structures; performance of building structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Advances in Road Pavements

edited by

Emanuele Toraldo

and

Misagh Ketabdari

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9907 | Submission Open

Keywords: pavement design; construction materials and methods; pavement related safety issues; surface treatments; pavement behavior modelling; urban pavements; pavement sustainability; pavement surface characteristics and ride quality; pavement monitoring; maintenance and rehabilitation; laboratory and field performance tests

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Zero-Emission Buildings and the Sustainable Built Environment

edited by

Sebastian George Maxineasa

and

Ligia Mihaela Moga

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8068 | Submission Open

Keywords: zero-emission buildings; sustainable development; natural environment; built environment; environmental impact; energy efficient buildings; sustainability assessment; green infrastructure; building materials; greenhouse gases emissions; recycling and reusing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Optimization Control and Energy Conservation in Smart Heating Systems

edited by Chengying Qi and

Jinda Wang

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1551 | Submission Open

Keywords: district heating system; heat metering; smart heating; heat regulation and management; optimal control of building energy systems; building energy saving; thermo-active building systems (TABSs); energy system modeling and simulation; energy system planning and optimization; renewable energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Research on Soil–Structure Interaction for Civil Structures

edited by Mingjie Jiang,

Bingxiang Yuan

,

Ankit Garg

,

Jian Gong

and Shiyuan Huang

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1076 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil– structure interaction; laboratory element tests; physical model test; field test; constitutive model; numerical simulation; seismic performance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Non-linear Behavior and Design of Steel Structures

edited by

Rui Bai

,

Yi-Qun Tang

and

Yao-Peng Liu

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 21319 | Submission Open

Keywords: steel structures; steel and composite structures; cold-formed steel structures; modular structures; stability design; buckling; second-order joint behavior

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Intelligence and Automation in Construction Industry

edited by

Jingjing Guo

,

Qian Wang

and

Weiwei Chen

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 19911 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; automation; robotics; human-machine collaboration; smart construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Are “Green” Construction Materials Truly Feasible?

edited by

Riccardo Maddalena

,

Antonios Kanellopoulos

and

Ana Bras

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5741 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction materials; low-carbon concrete; infrastructure materials; durability; life-cycle assessment; waste; recycling; recycled materials; strength

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Fiber-Reinforced Polymers and Fiber-Reinforced Concrete in Civil Engineering—2nd Edition

edited by Jianzhe Shi,

Lili Hu

, Hao Zhou,

Liangliang Wei

,

Weiqiang Wang

, Qin Zhang, Yaqiang Yang,

,

,

and

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2573 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber-reinforced polymers; fiber-reinforced concrete; experiment; numerical simulation; infrastructure; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Building Structural Design: Blast Analysis and Progressive Collapse Control

edited by

Hezi Grisaro

and

Sam Rigby

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 18922 | Submission Open

Keywords: progressive collapse; blast loads; impact loads; protective structures; dynamic analysis; explosions; column removal; reinforced concrete; steel structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure: Theory and Practice

edited by

Jonghoon Kim

and Hariharan Naganathan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 17136 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrastructure projects; fostering renewables; reducing environmental and carbon footprint; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Earthquake Resistant and Vibration Control of Concrete Structures

edited by

Yao-Rong Dong

,

Yeshou Xu

and

Lihua Zhu

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11596 | Submission Open

Keywords: concrete structures; engineering structures; structural analysis; structural assessment; earthquake-resistant design; seismic risk assessment; structural damping; structural vibration control; seismic isolation; retrofit of existing buildings

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Comfortable Environments: Materials for Room Acoustics and Noise Control

edited by Jesús Carbajo,

Pedro Poveda-Martínez

and

J. Ramis-Soriano

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10162 | Submission Open

Keywords: room acoustics; noise control; acoustic materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Green Building Materials and Intelligent Construction Technology

edited by Jirong Lan, Yiqie Dong, Yaguang Du,

Mingfeng Kai

and Xian Zhou

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9268 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent construction; green building materials; structural design; management models; construction techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Research on Timber and Timber–Concrete Buildings

edited by Pablo Guindos, José Luis Almazán Campillay,

Alexander Opazo-Vega

, Hernán Santa María Oyanedel and Diego Valdivieso Cascante

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 8031 | Submission Open

Keywords: timber structure timber-concrete timber design wood building structural performance non-structural performance industrialization sustainable construction resilience bioproduct

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Climate Resilient Buildings: 2nd Edition

edited by

Michael A. Lacasse

and

Marzieh Riahinezhad

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7278 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate resilient buildings; resilient design; resilient retrofit; overheating; extreme climate events

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Research on Solar Energy System and Storage for Sustainable Buildings

edited by

Zhiyong Tian

and

Yongqiang Luo

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6587 | Submission Open

Keywords: solar buildings; solar heating; solar cooling; sustainable buildings; thermal energy storage; building integrated photovoltaic; energy efficiency for data centre

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Study on Real Estate and Housing Management—2nd Edition

edited by

Jian Liang

,

Song Shi

and

Han-Suck Song

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4998 | Submission Open

Keywords: real estate management; corporate real estate; housing policy; housing economics; real estate finance; real estate valuation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Built Environment in High-Density Cities

edited by

Lingyue Li

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4691 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart spatial planning; intensive/mixed land use; high-density built environment; sustainability; three-dimensional; compact development; machine learning; land use change and evolution; data-driven approach; quality environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Automation and Robotics in Building Design and Construction

edited by

Minkoo Kim

,

Tae Wan Kim

, Jung In Kim and

Sungjin Kim

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3915 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction robots; building construction; smart sensing; design for construction robots; operation platform; human– robot collaboration; construction management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Towards Industry 5.0 in the Construction Industry: Techniques, Requirements, Energy, Maintenance Engineering, Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Javier Cárcel-Carrasco

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3535 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction 5.0; advanced construction techniques; maintenance engineering; building information management (BIM); hybrid renewable systems; energy efficiency; circular economy; human interaction; Internet of Things (IoT); artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Advances in Soil–Geosynthetic Composite Materials

edited by

Meen-Wah Gui

,

Thang Pham

and Phan Truc T.T.

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2744 | Submission Open

Keywords: composite behavior; geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS); field-scale experiments; finite element (fe); compaction loads

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

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