Fire Safety of Building Structures for Resilience and Sustainability: Design, Optimisation, and Governance
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 212
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Interests: disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM); urban and regional planning; resilience; safety; resilient built environment; sustainable development; smart cities; governance; risk-sensitive planning; proactive approach; community-based participatory approach
Interests: construction management; resilient buildings and infrastructure; risk reduction; AI; data-driven decision-making
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fire safety is a critical component of building design and urban development. It has direct implications for human life safety, property protection, and the long-term sustainability of the built environment. As buildings become more complex and cities face increasing pressures from urban density, climate change, and resource constraints, conventional approaches to building fire safety are often insufficient to address broader resilience and sustainability objectives. Fire safety measures are frequently designed in isolation, with limited consideration of optimisation, long-term impacts, or the governance frameworks that influence their implementation and effectiveness.
In recent years, there has been growing recognition that the fire safety of building structures must be understood as an integral part of resilient and sustainable building systems. This requires coordinated attention to design strategies integrating and optimising structural as well as non-structural measures, lifecycle considerations, and the regulatory and institutional contexts within which fire safety decisions are made. Design optimisation offers opportunities to balance safety, cost, material use, and environmental performance, while governance mechanisms play a crucial role in shaping fire safety outcomes across different urban and socio-economic contexts.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Buildings, entitled “Fire Safety of Building Structures for Resilience and Sustainability: Design, Optimisation, and Governance.” This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for advancing knowledge on integrated approaches to building fire safety.
In this Special Issue, original research articles, theoretical and experimental studies, case studies, and review papers are invited. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Fire safety design of building structures;
- Optimisation of structural and non-structural fire safety measures for building structures;
- Contributions of building fire safety to resilience and sustainability;
- Governance, regulation, policy and implementation aspects of building fire safety;
- Fire safety challenges in complex and high-density urban environments.
We welcome contributions that address these themes from engineering, planning, and policy perspectives.
Dr. Uttama Barua
Dr. Moe Mojtahedi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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.
Keywords
- building fire safety
- resilient buildings
- sustainable development
- structural measures
- non-structural measures
- optimum building fire safety measures
- policy and legislation
- enforcement and practices
- implementation
- regulatory frameworks
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