Sustainable Development of Buildings: Design, Construction, Quality Inspection, Operation Management

Dear Colleagues,

In this Special Issue of the journal Buildings, we plan to extend the growing research stream by inviting manuscripts that investigate current practices, advanced developments, and essential effects of sustainable building design, construction, quality inspection, and operation management. The effects of sustainable development will be discussed throughout the whole life cycle of a building in terms of three dimensions: technology, people, and processes. Submissions that address the investigation of advanced sustainable solutions for new construction and energy retrofitting, describe novel methodologies for sustainability assessment, present strategies and advanced approaches in sustainable urban development, applications of advanced tools for building performance assessment; analyse the approaches that integrate building information modelling and facilities management; and address quality inspection and operation management issues are encouraged.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tatjana Vilutiene
Prof. Dr. Heng Li
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chunlu Liu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nuria Forcada
Prof. Dr. Audrius Banaitis
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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.