Sustainable Building Infrastructure and Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

Building infrastructure resilience refers to the ability of the building infrastructure system to respond to disasters and the ability to recover after a disaster. It also refers to the ability of the building infrastructure system to resist disasters, absorb losses, and return to normal operation in a timely manner when a disaster occurs. Building infrastructure resilience belongs to the category of technical resilience. Technical resilience covers building structure, transportation, communication, drainage, waterlogging prevention, energy, fire protection, air defense, and medical and epidemic prevention, and includes all the building infrastructure of the city. Introducing the concept of resilience into building infrastructure research can inject new vitality into the research of infrastructure reliability. The acquisition of basic transportation resilience should rely on the combination of multi-disciplinary and multi-professional principles, knowledge and technology; it is necessary to improve the multiple positive functions of urban traffic resilience, not only to meet the requirements of mobility, disaster reduction and prevention, but also to satisfy the needs of controlling congestion, reducing energy consumption, reducing air pollution and increasing social equity. The potential topics include but are not limited to sustainable urban resilience, the resilience development of buildings, the resilience development of highway infrastructure, the resilience development of rail transit infrastructure, the sustainable resilience of building materials, and the evaluation and construction of a safe and resilient city.

Prof. Dr. Xiaopei Cai
Dr. Huayang Yu
Dr. Tao Wang
Guest Editors

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