Towards Sustainable Construction: New Trends in Building Renovation, Energy Efficiency and Innovative Materials
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 3486
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction materials; sustainability; building management; energy efficiency; building physics; waste management; circular economy
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Interests: sustainable materials; circular economy; thermal behaviour and energy efficiency of buildings; lightweight steel-framed (LSF) construction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The construction industry holds a key role in the economic development of nations. Every year, this sector demands a huge amount of raw materials and generates a strong environmental impact on our planet. For this reason, it is necessary to move towards sustainable, more efficient, and environmentally friendly construction. In this sense, the refurbishment of existing buildings is becoming increasingly common as a sustainable approach for utilising existing resources in cities, improving their initial performance, and therefore recovering the value of the built heritage.
The main goal of this Special Issue is to collect contributions related to sustainability that contribute to boosting building renovation. Thus, this initiative welcomes dissimilar contributions that address various topics, such as (i) the development and characterisation of novel sustainable building materials; (ii) the energy efficiency of buildings and the improvement of their thermal performance; (iii) retrofitting and restoration strategies for existing buildings; and (iv) the efficient management of existing resources and circular economy. In this way, initiatives focused on improving the sustainability of buildings, developing new construction systems, and introducing technological innovations in buildings are welcome.
Dr. Daniel Ferrández Vega
Dr. Paulo Santos
Guest Editors
Alicia Zaragoza Benzal
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- sustainable construction materials
- energy efficiency in buildings and thermal behaviour
- building conservation techniques
- gypsum, lime mortars, cement composites, wood, steel and concrete
- building pathology and rehabilitation strategies
- circular economy for a sustainable construction
- life-cycle assessment of buildings and building components
- passive conditioning of buildings
- new technologies applied to buildings
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