Performance Analysis of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Constructions Under Current and Future Climates
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 747
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building physics; hygrothermal performance; energy efficiency; mass timber constructions
Interests: high performance energy generating building envelopes, durability; zero carbon buildings, low-carbon building materials; climate resilience, urban microclimate; indoor environment and human comfort
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and net-zero GHG emission goals brought new challenges to the construction industry which require more climate-resilient and low-carbon building designs and constructions. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) constructions attracted increasing attention, as CLT has much lower embodied carbon than other building materials, such as concrete or steel. With the widespread adoption of performance-based building codes and standards, in many countries, performance analysis became mandatory to support building designs, and this has no exception for CLT building design.
This Special Issue focuses on the contributions related to the performance analysis of CLT buildings to support the design, construction and maintenance of such buildings, particularly to achieve the goals of withstanding environmental loads under climate changing and reducing GHG emissions during service life. The research topics of this Special Issue will cover (1) the characterization of CLT material properties, including, but not limited to, hygrothermal, mechanical and biochemical properties; (2) performance analysis of CLT building envelope systems, such as the durability, thermal performance, fire, acoustics and structural performance; (3) performance analysis of whole buildings built with CLT, including thermal comfort, energy efficiency and life cycle carbon/cost analysis; and (4) the impact of climate change and climate resilience on CLT buildings under future and extreme climatic conditions.
Dr. Lin Wang
Prof. Dr. Hua Ge
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cross-laminated timber constructions
- characterization of material properties
- hygrothermal performance analysis
- durability performance analysis
- energy performance analysis
- thermal comfort performance analysis
- structural performance analysis
- life cycle carbon/cost analysis
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