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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2023 | Viewed by 661
Special Issue Editors

Interests: construction materials; cement chemistry; geopolymers; valorization of wastes in building materials; materials characterization and testing

Interests: cement chemistry; concrete technology; durability of cement-based materials in corrosive environments; microstructural analysis; supplementary cementing materials; magnesium phosphate cements; alkali-activated binders; self-healing; cultural heritage building materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The construction sector, one of the pillars of the global economy, still follows the “make–take–dispose” concept. Indeed, the construction sector accounts for a large consumption of raw materials for use in manufacturing of building products and components, adding significant amounts of energy and greenhouse gas emissions to the life cycle of the buildings. However, the scarcity of natural resources, the high energy demand of production processes and the high rate of waste landfilling indicate the imperative need of transforming the construction industry to follow the concepts of sustainability and circularity.
In view of the aforementioned, this Special Issue aims to collect innovative research findings involving advances in sustainable construction materials and their characterization, less energy consuming production processes of construction materials, different waste streams valorization in the production of building products, methodologies of minimizing the environmental impact in the building sector, efficient methods of recycling and reusing in the construction, as well as innovative technologies for improving the performance and service life of the construction materials.
Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed, and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. It provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Kioupis
Dr. Konstantinos Sotiriadis
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- construction materials
- geopolymers
- innovative technologies
- reuse and recycle
- wastes valorisation
- characterization and testing
- life cycle analysis
- carbon footprint
- durability