Sustainable and Low-Carbon Building Technology: Education, Design, and Practice

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that we have launched a new Special Issue of Buildings entitled "Sustainable and Low-Carbon Building." This Special Issue aims to reveal the latest studies on the education, design, and practice of sustainable and low-carbon building technology.

Sustainable technology development is of great significance for the maintenance of the Earth’s ecological environment. In order to ensure the low-carbon operation of buildings, engineers attempt to make progress in various aspects of their field, such as education, design and practice. By educating designers and builders, the waste of resources caused by human errors and omissions will be minimized. Through the optimization of building design and practice (e.g., BIM technology), resources can be utilized fully.

This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers in the overlapping fields of:

• Carbon emission management of infrastructure in the whole process;
• Construction technology and the management of prefabricated buildings;
• BIM technology and practice;
• Sustainable design technology for buildings;
• Repair and protection of traditional and ancient buildings;
• Educational innovation in sustainable building design;
• Education of low-carbon technicians.

Prof. Dr. Wei Wang
Dr. Xianwen Huang
Dr. Peiyuan Chen
Prof. Dr. Aizhao Zhou
Dr. Shaoyun Pu
Dr. Wei Duan
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.