Sustainable Construction Management and Engineering: Residential Construction with Focus on Life Cycle of Buildings and Costs—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute your research studies to this Special Issue of Buildings, entitled “Sustainable Construction Management and Engineering: Residential Construction with Focus on Life Cycle of Buildings and Costs—2nd Edition”. Buildings is an international scientific peer-reviewed open access journal, exploring concerning building science, building engineering, and architecture, published monthly online by MDPI.

The world is changing. Humanity faces a number of problems related to the deterioration of the living environment, the unavailability of energy sources and building materials, the decline of living standards, and the economic situation at the household level. The new situation requires innovative solutions in the field of planning and implementation. Additionally, efforts must be made to ensure long-term sustainability from a technical and economic point of view. Innovative solutions should be cost-effective with minimal impact on the environment and achieving the maximum lifespan of buildings. The present time brings a whole range of risks and policy issues associated with the unavailability of housing, but at the same time, it is a matter of new opportunities and challenges. In view of climatic, socio-economic and demographic trends, it is necessary to modify the existing practices of building design and maintenance to guarantee comfortable, safe, and affordable housing.

For these reasons, the purpose of this Special Issue is to provoke a scientific discussion and encourage scientists to identify new opportunities and advances in sustainable construction and engineering. We welcome all kinds of scientific articles presenting results from original theoretical and empirical research, conducted methodically, as well as opinions and reviews.

Some related research papers have been published in the previous edition of this Special Issue, which can be accessed using the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/special_issues/4YP4KP69UX

This Issue will bring together recent research in an effort to identify new opportunities and advance the field and will provide an advanced forum for studies related to real estate. Submissions are encouraged on areas including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Sustainable renovation of existing building stock.
• Sustainable urban development.
• Poverty and affordable housing.
• Decision-support tools and assessment methods for sustainable built environment.
• Construction project management.
• Real estate market.
• Cost analysis, life-cycle analysis, value for money.
• Energy-efficient buildings, energy management.
• Building information modelling.

We are excited to receive your submissions.

Dr. Eduard Hromada
Dr. Bozena Kaderabkova
Dr. Klara Cermakova
Dr. Lucie Kurekova
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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

• civil engineering
• buildings
• real estate market
• sustainability of housing
• affordable housing
• life cycle costing
• project management
• cost management
• facility management
• energy management
• BIM
• multicriterial modelling
• risk analysis

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