Cutting-Edge Research on Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Buildings and Cities
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 319
Special Issue Editors
Interests: architecture; urban planning and design; research methods; creativity in design and planning
Interests: geographical information systems; remote sensing; spatial planning and design; CAD; spatial analysis of smart and resilient cities and regions
Interests: regional architecture; historic and vernacular buildings; urban and rural landscape and assessment
Interests: architecture and urban theory and design; ecological cities; resilient cities; design presentation; urban residential development
Interests: green and low carbon architecture and cities; digital applications in buildings; urban spatial form
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue publishes cutting-edge research on the planning, design, construction, performance, and management of architecture and buildings with a focus on the science, technology, and engineering aspects of the built environment from smart, sustainable, and resilient perspectives at various spatial scales for buildings, neighborhoods, and cities in time. High-quality papers with scientific novelties and technical innovations, together with managerial and social–economic concerns, are welcome. We welcome submissions relating to new paradigms, methods, and tools incorporating artificial intelligence, digital twins, big data, and modelling and simulation for pressing and challenging problems in the built environment. This includes, but is not limited to, building diagnosis, retrofit, safety, resiliency, affordability, livability, and sustainability. Submissions on novel systems or creative solutions to buildings in energy consumption, carbon emissions, microclimate, construction management, prefabrication, and 3D printing, plus new types of building materials, structures, and functions, forms, and aesthetics for representative projects in one country or around the global are particularly encouraged. Research oriented on construction policies, building codes, standards, certifications, and regulations is also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Guoqiang Shen
Prof. Dr. Qiuxiao Chen
Prof. Dr. Jie Wang
Prof. Dr. Tian Chen
Dr. Bing Xia
Dr. Yiqiao Sun
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.
Keywords
- sustainability and resillience
- buildings and cities
- construction and management
- codes and standars
- modeling and simulation
- systems and technologies
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