Selected Papers of the CIRMARE 2023 – VI International Congress on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings

Dear Colleagues,

CIRMARE 2023 aims to contribute to the knowledge and promotion of practices in rehabilitation that boost the resilience and adaptation of buildings as well as cities and identify new solutions to meet the future needs of contemporary societies that aim to be more sustainable in their principles and actions. Thus, this international congress will promote an ideal opportunity for the exchange of information between professionals and researchers working in the fields of the recovery, maintenance, and rehabilitation of built assets as well as cities. Thus, this Special Issue is composed of the following topics:

• Technological updating of constructions.
• Building quality assessment.
• BIM and the digitization of construction.
• Circular economy in the construction sector.
• Near-zero-energy buildings.
• Case studies in recovery, maintenance, and rehabilitation.
• Information management in construction.
• Housing, occupant comfort, and health.
• Industrialization of rehabilitation processes.
• Interventions in historical and cultural heritage.
• Maintenance and requalification of built spaces.
• Urban planning.
• Innovation and inclusion.
• Urban infrastructure rehabilitation.
• Recovery of degraded urban areas.
• Urban resilience and climate change.
• Sustainability of buildings.
• Service life and pathologies in buildings.
• Accessibility of buildings and urban spaces.

Dr. João Carlos Gonçalves Lanzinha
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Qualharini
Guest Editors

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