Climate-Responsive Strategies for Sustainable Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026 | Viewed by 1495
Special Issue Editors
Interests: recycled materials and infrastructure sustainability; infrastructure materials characterization and performance assessment; condition assessment of infrastructure and materials through NDT; QA/QC; specifications; risk analysis
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Interests: building energy performance; urban building energy modeling; thermal comfort; urban heat islands and albedo; renewable energy sources and clean energy production
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infrastructure sustainability has been a key focus area for some time and alternative climate-responsive strategies and materials for sustainable infrastructure, in terms of buildings, roadways, bridges, and other structures, are explored by the research and practicing engineering community on an ongoing basis around the world. This Special Issue on “Climate-Responsive Strategies for Sustainable Infrastructure” aims to include up-to-date research articles on studies that (i) explore alternative design and passive strategies for sustainable cities and communities, and (ii) assess pertinent low-carbon and recycled materials that may be considered in such strategies and quantify both the economic and environmental benefits thereof. For example, buildings may rely on passive and active strategies that use natural elements like solar energy, airflow, and site conditions to minimize energy consumption and boost the availability of renewables. Other key strategies may include optimizing building orientation maximizing daylighting and incorporating natural ventilation or shading and green roofs that can reduce the energy used for space heating, cooling, and artificial lighting. Similarly, for roadways and urban surfaces the design of perpetual pavements and permeable surfaces, and use of low-carbon and recycled materials, may provide significant economic and environmental benefits, including improvements to the impact of albedo or reductions in the urban heat island effect. The use of these climate-responsive strategies and materials may result in more comfortable and healthier urban spaces, and longer lasting and more efficient infrastructure.
Topics
- Climate-responsive strategies for sustainable infrastructure;
- Alternative design and practices for green infrastructure;
- Urban sustainability analysis and design;
- Building energy performance and modeling;
- Renewable availability and clean production;
- Pavement surfaces, albedo, and urban heat islands;
- Roadway sustainability and low-carbon and recycled materials;
- Life cycle sustainability assessment for infrastructure and materials;
- Development of environmental product declarations (EPDs);
- Environmental Impact Analysis;
- Machine Learning and AI applications.
Dr. Dimitrios Goulias
Dr. Guglielmina Mutani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate responsive strategies
- sustainable infrastructure
- albedo
- urban heat islands
- low-carbon and recycled materials
- renewable energy sources
- sustainability assessment
- life cycle analysis
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