Sustainable Built Environment and Future Proof Innovations

Dear Colleagues,

The construction, operation, refurbishment, and end-of-life of the built environment are responsible for a full set of environmental impacts (land use, biodiversity damages, energy consumption, carbon emission, material and water consumption), as well as social and economic impacts.

Considering that the built environment has a large impact, it could also be an opportunity to lower negative impacts and provide an important contribution to sustainable development; namely, better approaches and assessments, materials, buildings, infrastructure, and urban areas.

This Special Issue on “Sustainable Built Environment and Future Proof Innovations” is a response to the growing demand for a sustainable built environment and the urgent need for publishing current thinking, research, and innovation case studies and solutions.

This Special Issue focuses on papers that identify and analyze innovation approaches and solutions that search to be future proof for sustainable built environment, tools, assessment models (environment, social, and economic), solutions and case studies (urban area, infrastructure, buildings, and materials), best practices analyses and their limitations.

Contributors from academia, designers, regulators, industry, software producers, and managers that allow a broad perspective and wide-ranging approaches and discussions on the sustainable built environment are welcomed. Papers submitted to this Special Issue are of interest to all those involved in activities across the sustainable built environment and related sectors.

Prof. Dr. Manuel Duarte Pinheiro
Guest Editor

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