Advances in Foundation Engineering for Building Structures

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute your research to Special Issue on “Advances in Foundation Engineering for Building Structures” in Buildings.

In recent times, significant changes have occurred in the building market. We are currently faced with conflicting issues such as (1) new development and (2) securing a sustainable environment, so we must resolve them wisely.

For (1) new development, each country is competing with skyscrapers by building increasingly large and high-rising buildings. Since these super-high-rise buildings must resist the load of the superstructure, which is greater than the load of typical buildings, a new foundation type and design method are required.

Furthermore, for (2) a sustainable future, CO₂ reduction policies are also needed in the building structure market. Therefore, CO₂ reduction can be achieved by remodeling aging buildings rather than rebuilding them, so the market in building remodeling is steadily increasing. Building remodeling can be a complicated and challenging task because it involves the reuse of existing structural foundations and reinforcement. In addition, various renewable energy technologies such as energy pile foundation and compressed air energy storage (CAES) system pile are being utilized and developed to apply new renewable energy methods to buildings.

For this reason, the aim of this Special Issue is to discuss and share the direction of foundation technologies for building structures. Therefore, we welcome research papers and review papers on various topics that present originally theoretical, empirical, experimental, methodological, and numerical analysis results. The following topics are recommended, but not limited to:

• Innovative foundation technologies for super-high-rise buildings;
• Foundation technologies for building remodeling;
• Foundation for renewable energy for buildings;
• Ground deep excavation for building construction in urban;
• Stability of building foundation against earthquakes;
• Improving bearing capacity of foundation for building;
• Building foundation using 3D printing technology.

Dr. Junyoung Ko
Dr. Joonkyu Lee
Dr. Jaehyun Kim
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.