Promoting Green, Sustainable and Resilient Urban Construction—2nd Edition

A Special Issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309) belonging to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 911

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School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Interests: sustainable urbanization; infrastructure resilience assessment; urban regeneration governance; stakeholder management; smart community construction
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Dear Colleagues,

With the development of urbanization, humans are increasingly facing problems concerning resources, population, the economy, and the ecological environment due to the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous era. The urgent development of resilient and sustainable infrastructures, buildings, and cities is of paramount importance. 

This Special Issue, entitled "Promoting Green, Sustainable and Resilient Urban Construction—2nd Edition", aims to publish the latest research outcomes that promote urban construction towards heightened sustainability and resilience. We cordially invite scholars from around the world to contribute innovative theoretical, methodological, and empirical research papers that may encompass a diverse array of topics, including, though not limited to, urban regeneration, green cities, smart cities, urban infrastructure, and city resilience. Papers on new theoretical and technological advancements, together with practical approaches, are invited to achieve the objectives of sustainable cities and future societies.

We welcome papers on the following and related topics, including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Innovative urban planning approaches;
  • Innovative business modes of urban regeneration;
  • Old residential community renovation governance;
  • Integration and coordination of urban agglomerations;
  • Green cities assessment and operation management;
  • Green community design, assessment, and operation;
  • Green community investment and financing modes;
  • Smart community operation and maintenance;
  • Low-carbon housing assessment, operation, and maintenance;
  • Low-carbon transformation modes of sustainable cities;
  • Urban infrastructure construction and operation;
  • Urban emergency management;
  • Urban lifeline safety management;
  • Climate-resilient urban infrastructure assessment;
  • Policy and governance strategies to promote sustainable urbanization;
  • Assessing and enhancing the resilience of city infrastructure systems.

Dr. Lin Zhang
Dr. Zezhou Wu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban regeneration construction
  • sustainable design
  • green cities
  • low carbon community
  • urban resilience
  • infrastructure resilience
  • project governance
  • stakeholder management
  • operation and maintenance

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Evaluating the Resilience of Urban–Rural Information Infrastructure Systems: A Hybrid Concept Lattice–DEMATEL–VIKOR Model in Shandong, China
by Lin Zhang, Rui Zhao and Yanna Zhang
Buildings 2026, 16(10), 1905; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings16101905 - 11 May 2026
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Urban–rural information infrastructure (URII) serves as the backbone of the “Digital Village” strategy; however, it faces significant threats from natural disasters and socioeconomic disparities. This study proposes a comprehensive resilience evaluation framework based on the pressure–state–response (PSR) theory. To address the limitations of [...] Read more.
Urban–rural information infrastructure (URII) serves as the backbone of the “Digital Village” strategy; however, it faces significant threats from natural disasters and socioeconomic disparities. This study proposes a comprehensive resilience evaluation framework based on the pressure–state–response (PSR) theory. To address the limitations of traditional subjective weighting, we construct an integrated assessment framework that combines the entropy weight method with an improved concept lattice-weighted cluster DEMATEL method, effectively handling cognitive differences among experts. Using Lijin County in Shandong Province as a case study, we assess resilience levels from 2018 to 2022 via the VIKOR method. The results indicate a robust upward trajectory in overall resilience, progressing from a low-level state in 2018 to a high-resilience state in 2022. However, a dimensional comparative analysis identifies pressure resilience as the most critical weak point; consequently, the study establishes that the priority for future resilience enhancement follows the order: pressure > state > response. Based on these findings, specific countermeasures focusing on disaster risk monitoring and infrastructure redundancy are proposed to foster sustainable rural digital development. Full article
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