Low-Carbon Built Environment
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2026 | Viewed by 219
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable urbanization; low-carbon built environment; green built environment; nature-based solutions for sustainable development
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Interests: embodied carbon; sustainable construction; green buildings; life cycle analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Buildings invites research papers on the above theme for inclusion in a Special Issue to be published in 2026.
The aim of this Special Issue is to globally present readers latest research findings and ideas on the theme of the low-carbon built environment.
Low-carbon practice is a long-term strategy globally for addressing climate change and for pursuing humankind sustainable development. As built environment is the primary place where carbon emissions are generated, the development of novel solutions for reducing carbon emissions in built environment is therefore essential. Nevertheless, the advancement of new technologies in the AI era presents opportunities to find out novel solutions that are more able to help reduce carbon emissions in the built environment.
These novel solutions for emission reduction in the context of built environment span across multiple perspectives, such as technology, governance, economic measures, nature-based solutions, management paradigms and other fields.
The inclusion of these research works on this specific theme in the journal of Buildings will contribute to the advancement of the research in the discipline and provide valuable theories for designating effective methods to implement low-carbon practice in the context of the built environment.
This Special Issue is edited by Liyin Shen, Chethana Illankoon and Yitian Ren.
Submission deadline 30 July 2026
This Special Issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate.
Prof. Dr. Liyin Shen
Dr. Chethana Illankoon
Dr. Yitian Ren
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- built environment
- climate change
- low-carbon practice
- low-carbon transition at different spatial scopes
- sustainable development goals
- policy and governance for low-carbon built environment
- nature-based solution for low carbon practice
- AI for low-carbon building
- embodied carbon
- low-carbon building materials
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