Building Resilience and Green Building Construction for Environmental Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

The vulnerability of existing building heritage against catastrophic events, the enormous costs for the reconstruction and/or repairing intervention, in addition to the 11th goal of the UNISDR, which require the transformation of our world in cities and human settlements to adopt inclusivity, safety, resilience and sustainability, push researchers and industries to search and set up proper strategies for risk mitigation and vulnerability reduction via sustainable interventions.  In particular, strategies should be characterized by a low impact on the community in terms of cost primary matter, energy consumption and time duration. In this way, the equilibrium between people’s wellness and environmental health can be reached. Therefore, the research should be focused on solutions that conjugate innovation and sustainability, efficiency and low costs, durability and easy realization. To realize innovation by preserving our planet, new materials obtained from their second life or waste reuse should be encouraged by realizing green building in order to reduce the costs for the actual and future communities.

Based on the previous premises, this Special Issue aims to encourage the dissemination of ideas and knowledge concerning the assessment of and reduction in the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings via sustainable solutions, by favoring interdisciplinary approaches between architectural, engineering and energetic issues.

In this Special Issue, original experimental, computational and theoretical research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Seismic vulnerability;
• Consolidation and retrofit sustainable techniques;
• Architectural–functional conservation;
• Traditional and innovative strategies;
• Conservation, protection and prevention;
• Reuse and functional redevelopment;
• Timber constructions: tradition and innovation;
• Bio-based building materials;
• Bio-waste solutions which conjugate seismic capacity and thermal insulation;
• Composite solutions for seismic capacity and thermal insulation upgrading;
• Numerical simulation tools for seismic and energy consumption analysis;
• Surrogated models for numerical simulations;
• Remaining life prediction of retrofitted structures;
• Structural experimental investigations;
• Structural resilience against natural risks.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Anna Marzo
Dr. George Wardeh
Guest Editors

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