Recent Scientific Developments in Building Envelope Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The building envelope is an essential building component that serves to provide a comfortable and healthy indoor environment. It is a multi-layered passive construction element and contains both structural and non-structural components designed to protect the building occupants from the vagaries of the weather. The properly designed building envelope should protect the building and its contents from climatic loads, provide adequate comfort to residents, ensure the building is energy efficient, and maintain its performance over its intended service life. On-going scientific development of building envelope materials plays a critical role, not only towards ensuring compliance with codes and standards, but also to meet expected performance challenges arising from a changing climate and to fulfill their expected service life. Failure in satisfying functional performance requirements can lead to premature degradation of the building envelope, costly repairs, and health and safety risks to occupants. Moreover, scientific developments of building envelope materials are now needed to encourage low-carbon construction solutions. This Special Issue is intended to provide a platform for multidisciplinary researchers to highlight their contributions focused on the most recent developments in building envelope materials to achieve a sustainable and low-carbon future.

Dr. Marzieh Riahinezhad
Dr. Reza Foruzanmehr
Guest Editors

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