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Structural Engineering in Building: 2nd Edition
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Structural Engineering in Building: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 379

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Dr. Eden Bojórquez

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Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán 80040, Sinaloa, Mexico
Interests: earthquake engineering; seismology; artificial intelligence; natural hazards; structural engineering
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Dr. Juan Bojórquez

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Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán 80040, Sinaloa, Mexico
Interests: earthquake engineering; seismology; artificial intelligence; natural hazards; structural engineering
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a follow-up of the first Special Issue, entitled “Structural Engineering in Building”, published in Buildings.

Structural Engineering in Building is an important topic for the development of safe, resilient, and sustainable infrastructure that can withstand natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, floods, landslides, etc. For this reason, in order to mitigate the effects of natural hazards and permanent loads on buildings, structural engineering has constantly evolved. Nowadays, it is possible to find not only traditional masonry structures and tall, reinforced concrete or steel buildings. Moreover, with the development of new energy dissipation devices, gaining a better understanding and assessment of the natural and anthropogenic loads on buildings has become of great interest to the scientific engineering community.

This Special Issue, “Structural Engineering in Building”, aims to present recent advances in the development of structural engineering for safer buildings. We welcome manuscripts related to the following topics: earthquakes or wind-resistant design of buildings, structural response of buildings under natural hazards, experimental tests, new materials, the estimation of earthquake and wind loads, artificial intelligence methods for structural engineering, seismology, new and modern buildings, resilient design, life cycle cost analysis, seismic and wind records, structural vulnerability, and optimum design. Other related topics to structural engineering are equally welcomed.

Dr. Eden Bojórquez
Dr. Juan Bojórquez
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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-anonymized 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

  • structural design of buildings
  • earthquake engineering
  • wind engineering
  • infrastructure under natural hazards
  • experimental tests
  • structural resilience of buildings
  • application of artificial intelligence to structural engineering
  • energy dissipation devices
  • optimal structural design
  • life cycle costs

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Enabling Scalable Structural Steel Reuse Across Reverse Supply Chains in Circular Construction: A Multi-Case Analysis
by Dina Abouhelal and Amin Hammad
Buildings 2026, 16(16), 3338; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings16163338 - 21 Aug 2026
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Steel production contributes significantly to global resource consumption and accounts for nearly 8% of worldwide CO2 emissions. As the construction industry moves toward decarbonization, the reuse of structural steel has emerged as a highly impactful strategy for reducing embodied carbon and extending [...] Read more.
Steel production contributes significantly to global resource consumption and accounts for nearly 8% of worldwide CO2 emissions. As the construction industry moves toward decarbonization, the reuse of structural steel has emerged as a highly impactful strategy for reducing embodied carbon and extending material life cycles. However, most end-of-life structures are still demolished using conventional methods that prioritize recycling for scrap value rather than recovering reusable steel components, resulting in the loss of high-quality material and reduced environmental and economic benefits. Despite growing interest in circular construction, systematic analyses of real-world structural steel reuse projects remain limited. This restricts the understanding of the practical conditions required for scalable implementation. Moreover, there is a lack of structured approaches for identifying the factors influencing deconstruction and large-scale structural steel reuse across reverse supply chains. This study addresses these gaps by developing a framework of factors affecting efficient deconstruction and structural steel reuse, identified through a thematic analysis of the literature and structured around structure attributes, business attributes, value chain activities, project management, and regulations. Fifteen case studies were analyzed: two from North America, twelve from Europe, and one from Asia. A structural steel reuse classification model is introduced to support cross-case comparison of coordination demands, implementation barriers, and scalability potential within reverse supply chains. The results demonstrate that reuse pathways differ substantially in coordination requirements, implementation complexity, and scalability outcomes. They further indicate that the dominant challenges to structural steel reuse are no longer primarily technical, but instead stem from system-level coordination gaps, limited information availability, and insufficient integration across reverse supply chains. Based on these findings, targeted solutions are identified, including improved dismantling strategies, enhanced documentation systems, dedicated storage infrastructure, and stronger regulatory alignment. This study provides a structured analytical approach and practical recommendations to support decision-making, stakeholder coordination, and the scalable implementation of structural steel reuse. Full article
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