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Energy Efficiency and Carbon Neutrality in Buildings

edited by

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 34956

Keywords: climate change; energy efficiency; carbon neutrality; net zero carbon; resilience; buildings and construction; sustainable built environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Construction Workplace Trends and Work Health and Safety

edited by

Yingbin Feng

and

Peng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 33081

Keywords: work health and safety; technology; resilience; offsite construction; sustainability; construction workplace; cultural diversity; digitalisation; industrialisation; globalisation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Timber in the City: Interior Design and City Environment Development with Wood Materials

edited by

Danijela Domljan

,

Dina Stober

and Vjekoslav Živković

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 15 articles | Viewed by 23943

Keywords: interior design; wood products design; city environment; trends in wood application; environmental; perception of wood; human-centered design; health; human behavior; well-being; biophilic design; multisensory stimulation; traditional wooden structures; design theory; BIM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Advanced Research on Cultural Heritage

edited by

Emilia Vasanelli

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 19354

Keywords: heritage; repair and conservation; NDT; decay and durability; case studies; diagnostic tools; digital technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Research on Industrialization and Intelligence in Building Structures

edited by

Pengcheng Li

and

Hao Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11862

Keywords: building structures; prefabricated strucutures; novel structural systems; novel structural materials; intelligent method; intelligent construction; structural optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Research on the Performance of Traditional, New and Potential Building Materials: 2nd Edition

edited by

Yue-Ling Long

,

Zhenhao Zhang

, Ying Qin, Zhiliang Zuo and

JinJing Liao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11192

Keywords: traditional building materials (steel; concrete; masonry; timber; bamboo; etc.); composite materials and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs); potential building materials (graphene; bio-inspired materials; etc.); ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC); 3D printing materials; concrete-filled steel tubes (CFSTs); static and dynamic performance; structural reliability; cross-section instability; numerical simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Vibration Prediction and Noise Assessment of Building Structures

edited by

Chao Zou

and Ziyu Tao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10445

Keywords: vibration and noise prediction; propagation and mitigation; technological advances in testing; vibration comfort; noise disturbance; long-term performance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Recent Advances in Structural Health Monitoring of Buildings and Infrastructures

edited by

Minshui Huang

and

Jianfeng Gu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10311

Keywords: damage identification; inverse problems in structural engineering; deep learning in SHM; smartphone sensing; sensor network; optimal sensor placement and instrumentation design; environmental and operational factors in SHM; static load testing and vibration testing of structure; swarm intelligence algorithms; sustainable developments in SHM; other related topics in SHM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Advances in Testing and Computation Methods for Disaster Mitigation of Engineering Structures

edited by

Liqiang Jiang

, Fengqi Guo, Linli Duan and

Yi Hu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8835

Keywords: structural engineering; natural hazard; testing technique; computation technique; AI-aimed simulation; construction material; structural design method; retrofit and repair; vulnerability and risk; damage assessment; performance-based design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Existing Environment, Equipment, Materials and Technical Means for Buildings

edited by

Xin Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8577

Keywords: indoor environment; buildings materials; buildings renovations; auxiliary equipment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Seismic Analysis and Design of Building Structures

edited by

Bo Fu

,

Bo Wang

,

Xinxin Wei

and Qing Lv

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8518

Keywords: seismic analysis; seismic design; seismic performance; structural control; building structure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Physiological Mechanisms of Comfort, Health, and Cognitive Performance in Built Environment

edited by Zhibin Wu and

Romina Rissetto

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8399

Keywords: physiological responses; biosignals; human building interaction; indoor environment quality; human perception; cognitive performance; health and well-being

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Advances in Performance-Based Asphalt and Asphalt Mixtures

edited by Runhua Guo and Yun Hou

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8083

Keywords: asphalt binder; hot-mix asphalt; warm-mix asphalt; cold-mix asphalt; recycled asphalt pavement; performance-based properties; asphalt mix design; asphalt paving construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Resilient Urban and Architecture Design: Strategies for Low-Carbon and Climate-Adaptive Cities

edited by Xuan Ma and

Juan Ren

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 8004

Keywords: low-energy and low-carbon buildings; low-energy and low-carbon urban design; outdoor and indoor thermal environment; outdoor and indoor wind environment; resilient cities and architecture design; urban built environment design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Numerical Modeling in Mechanical Behavior and Structural Analysis

edited by Chenyang Zhao, Huihuan Ma and Arash A. Lavasan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7170

Keywords: numerical modeling; mechanical behavior; structural analysis; life cycle evaluation; artificial intelligence; applications

Health Monitoring of Building Structures: Emerging Technologies and Approaches

edited by

Xingyu Wang

,

Ying Huang

and

Chengcheng Tao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6843

Keywords: structural health monitoring (SHM); sensor technologies; data analytics and processing; machine learning and artificial intelligence; monitoring systems; damage detection and localization; non-destructive evaluation (NDE); predictive maintenance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

The Latest Research on Building Materials and Structures

edited by

Duc-Kien Thai

, Yiyi Zhou and

Zhengyi Kong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6574

Keywords: reinforced concrete structures; high-performance concrete structures; steel structures; composite structures; numerical simulation; high-strength steel; structural optimization; smart structures; bio-inspired structures; experimental investigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Sustainable Building Thermal and Energy Management: Novel Materials and Advanced Cooling Strategies

edited by

Chi Yan Tso

and

Jianheng Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5711

Keywords: building sustainability; building materials; cooling strategies; thermal management; energy efficiency; thermal insulation; passive cooling; renewable energy; indoor thermal comfort; environmental impact

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Intelligent Technologies in Concrete Engineering

edited by

Fuyuan Gong

, Xinxin Li, Hui Lin, Jingbin Zhang and Ding Nie

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4027

Keywords: experimental techniques; modeling methods; computational simulation; machine learning; intelligent construction; intelligent maintenance; concrete engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

New Concrete Materials: Performance Analysis and Research—2nd Edition

edited by Zhe Xiong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3899

Keywords: recycled concrete; modified concrete; ultra-high performance concrete; mechanical properties; durability; low carbon; microstructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Flexible Interaction between Buildings and Power Grid

edited by

Jide Niu

, Yakai Lu and Chuyao Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3595

Keywords: building– grid interaction; building flexibility definition; flexibility potential modeling and quantification; flexible operation and control method of building; building demand response mechanism; flexible building system design; renewable energy; building efficiency and indoor environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

High Utilization of Geopolymer Concrete for Sustainable Building Solutions

edited by

Bai Zhang

, Yanbing Zhao, Dunwen Huang,

Xu Yang

and

Yao-Rong Dong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2582

Keywords: geopolymer concrete; alkali-activated materials; mechanical performance; solid waste utilization microstructures; mix optimization; durability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Innovations in Integrated Renewable Energy and Adaptive Building Envelopes

edited by Yelin Zhang and Haoshan Ren

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2443

Keywords: building integrated photovoltaics; solar thermal; smart glazing; radiative sky cooling; phase change materials; dynamic insulation; demand response; techno-economic analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Building Energy Performance and Simulations

edited by

Domenico Palladino

and

Iole Nardi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2140

Keywords: building energy performance; smart retrofit solutions; predictive and building modeling; advanced building simulation tools; digital twin simulations; renewable energy integration; zero-emission buildings; historical building retrofitting; sustainable material integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Advances in Methods for Performance Characterization and Prediction of Reinforced Concrete—2nd Edition

edited by

Jiandong Huang

and

Jiaolong Ren

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1863

Keywords: reinforced concrete; durability; mechanical property; performance characterization; performance prediction; multiscale analysis; thermal analysis; data-driven method; special loading condition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Impact of Different Unbound Material Layers on Pavement Performance and Sustainability

edited by Syed Waqar Haider

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1543

Keywords: resilient modulus; dynamic modulus; FWD testing; drainage and fatigue; rutting performance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

New Trends in Innovative Building Materials and Structures

edited by

Yifeng Zhong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1311

Keywords: sustainable materials; carbon fiber; self-healing concrete; smart technologies; sensors; modular construction; prefabrication methods; energy efficiency; metamaterials; cellular structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Cutting-Edge Research on Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Buildings and Cities

edited by Guoqiang Shen,

Qiuxiao Chen

, Jie Wang, Tian Chen, Bing Xia and Yiqiao Sun

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1137

Keywords: sustainability and resillience; buildings and cities; construction and management; codes and standars; modeling and simulation; systems and technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Application and Characterization of Innovative Cementitious Materials in the Construction Industry

edited by

Gerlinde Lefever

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 545

Keywords: (ultra-)high-performance concrete; durability; self-healing concrete; nanomaterials; fibers; hydrogels; non-destructive testing; ultrasound; acoustic emission

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Machine Learning in Infrastructure Monitoring and Disaster Management

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 487

Keywords: machine learning; infrastructure; structural health monitoring; smart materials and structures; disaster management; optimization; resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Sustainable Construction Management and Engineering: Residential Construction with Focus on Life Cycle of Buildings and Costs

edited by

Eduard Hromada

,

Bozena Kaderabkova

,

Klara Cermakova

and Lucie Kurekova

submission deadline 8 Jul 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 24571 | Submission Open

Keywords: civil engineering; buildings; real estate market; sustainability of housing; affordable housing; life cycle costing; project management; cost management; facility management; energy management; BIM; multicriterial modelling; risk analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Dynamic Response of Structures

edited by

Xiaomeng Hou

,

Wenzhong Zheng

,

Honglu Fei

and Shaojun Cao

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 21 articles | Viewed by 53640 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamic response of structures; measurement; spectral analysis; and energy distribution of ground vibration; attenuation law of blasting-induced vibration and seismic wave; artificial intelligence for predicting ground vibration and blast; vibration absorption measures designing; seismic vulnerability analysis of structures; damage of structures evaluating

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Deep Learning Models in Buildings

edited by

Tae Wan Kim

and Jun Young Jang

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10072 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart building technologies; building performance optimization; predictive maintenance in buildings; automated defect detection; construction data analysis; energy consumption optimization; AI-driven design decision-making; deep learning in construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Research on the Seismic Design of Steel Frames

edited by

Linfeng Lu

and Shaofeng Nie

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9755 | Submission Open

Keywords: steel frame; seismic design; connection; braced steel frame; steel plate shear wall; retrofit; joints

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Research on Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Mining Sciences in Construction—2nd Edition

edited by

Xiaoyu Bai

, Nan Yan and

Jianyong Han

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 8042 | Submission Open

Keywords: rock mechanics and rock engineering; soil mechanics and foundation engineering; offshore geotechnical engineering; energy geotechnical engineering; intelligent and digital geotechnical engineering; engineering applications of new materials; foundation treatment technology; the mechanical; physical; hydraulic; and thermal properties of geomaterials; theoretical analysis; testing techniques; and numerical simulation of geotechnical media material

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Recent Advances in Intelligent Infrastructure and Construction Engineering

edited by Ye Zhang and

Shuai Han

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4711 | Submission Open

Keywords: automation in construction; deep learning; natural language processing; BIM; monitoring; digital twins; intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Corrosion and Seismic Resistance of Structures

edited by

Yulin Feng

,

Wangbao Zhou

, Bitao Wu,

Xiang Liu

and Xiaoyu Guo

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3224 | Submission Open

Keywords: corrosion; seismic resistance; stability; steel– concrete composite structure; health monitoring; CFST columns; hollow shear walls

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Smart Safety: Leveraging Digital Technologies in Construction Health and Safety Management

edited by

Bilal Manzoor

,

Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari

,

David J. Edwards

and

Abdul Hannan Qureshi

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 472 | Submission Open

Keywords: building information modeling (BIM); construction safety; blockchain; artificial intelligence (AI); robotics; accidents; safety prevention

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

High-Performance Composite Structures: Numerical Simulation, Experimental and Theoretical Studies

edited by

Fenghui Dong

, Zuolong Luo and Zhiqiang Han

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 976 | Submission Open

Keywords: composite structures; high-performance materials; numerical simulation; experimental research; theoretical analysis; design method; construction technology; inspection technology; environmental effect; durability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Human-Centered Transformation in Modern Construction Management

edited by

Huihua Chen

,

Baoquan Cheng

, Hujun Li and

Xiaoye Zeng

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 650 | Submission Open

Keywords: worker safety; project management; resilient infrastructure; sustainable construction management; workforce development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Integrating AI with Renewable Energy for Sustainable Building Design: Recent Advances

edited by Myeong-in Choi,

Sangmin Park

and SeolAh Park

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 312 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-driven building design; renewable energy integration; predictive analytics for building energy efficiency; intelligent energy management systems; energy storage solutions for buildings; virtual power plants for sustainable buildings; smart grid and building synergy; Net Zero and green energy building design; low-carbon and ESG industries with green buildings; sustainable security and business strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Art and Design for Healing and Wellness in the Built Environment

edited by

Zhen Liu

,

Mohamed Osmani

,

Yi Liu

and

Jose-Manuel Almodovar-Melendo

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 15 articles | Viewed by 27842 | Submission Open

Keywords: art therapy (AT); therapeutic and healing design; mental health; wellness; well-being; architecture and building; built environment; digital technology; smart cities; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Sustainable Preservation of Buildings and Infrastructure

edited by

Antonia Moropoulou

,

Evangelos J. Sapountzakis

,

Kyriakos Lampropoulos

and

Theodore E. Matikas

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 27441 | Submission Open

Keywords: building materials; structural analyses; environmental impact on buildings and infrastructure; non-destructive evaluation of building materials and structures; preservation and protection of built cultural heritage; methodologies and strategies for the enhancement of the sustainability of built environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Real Estate, Housing and Urban Governance

edited by Jie Chen, Zisheng Song and

Wei Wang

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 14959 | Submission Open

Keywords: real estate; housing; urban development; urban governance; urban environmental sustainability; migration; mobility and urbanization; urban– rural integration; big data; AI; and smart cities; building technology and building management; healthy building; healthy lifestyle and urban resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Damping Control of Building Structures and Bridge Structures

edited by

Hanyun Liu

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6386 | Submission Open

Keywords: bridge structures; seismic; damping control; new damping devices; structural damping mechanisms; new anti-vibration methods; applications of structural vibration control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Structural Resilience and Sustainable Development of Reinforced Concrete Structures

edited by José Jara,

Andreas Lampropoulos

, Bertha Alejandra Olmos and

Humberto Varum

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5117 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable materials; life-cycle of structures; seismic design and assessment of buildings; damage mitigation; control devices; advanced numerical modelling of structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Application of Building Information Modelling in Construction Management

edited by

Mario Galić

and

Zlata Dolaček-Alduk

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3905 | Submission Open

Keywords: BIM; Construction 4.0; dynamic data exchange and transformation; IoT-oriented project management; scan to BIM; active BIM; BIM legislation and contracting; BIM and blockchain technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Structural Health Monitoring, Damage Detection and Long-Term Performance

edited by

Esequiel Mesquita

,

Humberto Varum

,

Paulo Fernando da Costa Antunes

and

Antonella D'Alessandro

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3125 | Submission Open

Keywords: new approaches for SHM; short and long-term monitoring; new sensors and sensorial networks; digital methodologies for monitoring applications; monitoring strategies for construction sustainability; cultural heritage

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Research on the Durability of Reinforced Concrete Structures

edited by Hongyuan Guo,

Chao Jiang

and

Xiaoming Lei

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2325 | Submission Open

Keywords: durability assessment; reinforced concrete structures; corrosion mechanisms; environmental exposure; modeling and simulation; repair and maintenance strategies; structural sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Research on Performance of Pavement Concrete

edited by Mang Tia and Fazil Najafi

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2050 | Submission Open

Keywords: pavement concrete; coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE); resilient modulus; concrete pavement performance; drying shrinkage; finite element modeling; durability; severe flooding; extreme heat; accelerated pavement testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

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