Multi-Scale, Multi-Viewpoint Circular Economy Innovation in Urban and Transportation Systems
A special issue of CivilEng (ISSN 2673-4109). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban, Economy, Management and Transportation Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 1111
Editor
Interests: railway infrastructures; buildings; circular economy; resilience; sustainability; digitalization; artificial intelligence; smart cities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world faces the worst challenge stemming from the negative environmental impacts arising from the construction and maintenance of built environments, which consume the most resources and has the largest carbon footprint globally. Societies, governments and industry sectors worldwide have thus been seeking more efficient and sustainable research and innovation that underpin the transition towards net zero. Many interdisciplinary efforts have considered circular thinking in construction practices, maintenance technologies and asset management, integrating resource circularity into sustainability frameworks. This Special Issue will collect recent advances in research, technologies and innovation that enhance multi-scale, multi-viewpoint circular practices for the built environment sector. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Construction adaptability;
- Benchmarking framework;
- Deconstruction;
- Stakeholder management;
- BIM and digital twin;
- AI and machine learning;
- Sustainable materials;
- Sustainable construction;
- Sustainable asset management;
- Sustainable development;
- Net zero and NZEB concept;
- Lifecycle assessment;
- Smart cities;
- Carbon neutrality;
- Resilience.
Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- construction adaptability
- benchmarking framework
- deconstruction
- stakeholder management
- BIM and digital twin
- AI and machine learning
- sustainable materials
- sustainable construction
- sustainable asset management
- sustainable development
- net zero and NZEB concept
- lifecycle assessment
- smart cities
- carbon neutrality
- resilience
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