Reliability, Resilience and Sustainability for Construction and Infrastructure Systems
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 45
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Interests: dynamic reliability; structural reliability; stochastic process; random vibration; uncertainty analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern construction and infrastructure systems face unprecedented challenges due to climate change, urbanization, aging assets, and increasing interdependencies. Ensuring infrastructure reliability (consistent performance under normal conditions), resilience (ability to withstand and recover from disruptions), and sustainability (long-term environmental, economic, and social viability) is critical for the transformation of the construction industry. This Special Issue aims to explore cutting-edge research, innovative technologies, and integrated strategies that leverage digital tools, artificial intelligence, and advanced management practices to enhance the reliability, resilience, and sustainability of infrastructure systems, including buildings, transportation, energy, water, and smart cities.
We welcome original research, case studies, and review articles addressing topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Advanced analysis methods: New reliability analysis methods, resilience analysis methods, and sustainability evaluation methods.
- Structural Reliability: Predictive maintenance, failure analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, and lifecycle performance optimization.
- Resilience Engineering: Adaptive design, disaster preparedness, rapid recovery strategies, and stress-testing infrastructure under extreme events.
- Sustainable Infrastructure: Low-carbon materials, circular economy applications, energy-efficient systems, and green infrastructure solutions.
- Climate Adaptation and Mitigation: Infrastructure hardening, nature-based solutions, and decarbonization strategies for resilient and sustainable systems.
- Policy, Governance, and Socioeconomic Factors: Regulatory frameworks, investment models, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and equity considerations in infrastructure planning.
- Systemic Risks and Interdependencies: Cascading failures, critical infrastructure interdependencies, and network-wide resilience optimization.
This Special Issue encourages interdisciplinary contributions from engineering, environmental science, data science, economics, and policy studies. It seeks to provide actionable insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to develop infrastructure that is reliable under daily demands, resilient to shocks, and sustainable for future generations.
Prof. Dr. Zhenhao Zhang
Dr. Yue-Ling Long
Dr. Dong Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural reliability
- structural resilience
- infrastructure sustainability
- advanced analysis methods
- quantitative evaluation
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