Resilient Infrastructure Planning: Enhancing Sustainability in Construction
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 920
Special Issue Editor
Interests: construction economics; construction management; maintenance of built environment; maintenance of construction entities; housing management; facilities management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
When thinking about construction, we generally consider houses and/or buildings. Thus, when preparing textbooks and manuals, the introduction to construction begins with foundations. Then, there is the superstructure, and finally, the variety of finishing works that describe all the extremely specific aspects of technology and quality.
At the same time, when people buy and use homes or buildings, the most important thing for them is that they have access to amenities. Is water and sewage available, how are the electricity and heating systems arranged, and is accessibility to the building important? These everyday conveniences must be planned and built; the construction industry is responsible for that.
Infrastructure has become more of an umbrella term to describe the entire environment (often the support environment) needed to create a living, working, and recreational environment. Different authors of academic papers may have different interpretations of the term “infrastructure”, but the most general definition may be “the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively” (Cambridge Dictionary). The infrastructure does not draw a clear outline of either one or the other network or system, and currently, when highlighting the importance of the indoor climate of the buildings as a complex concept, it is necessary to balance both heating, electricity, water supply, and the functioning of the building's main structures. When the infrastructure that services the building is not resilient enough, dependable, and of poor quality, the building connected to this infrastructure is considered low quality, though the bearing structures may be solid.
The journal encourages submission of papers related to:
- Sustainable and healthy infrastructure for the society;
- Developing contemporary infrastructure;
- Reconstruction of derelict infrastructure;
- Contemporary methods of infrastructure management and maintenance;
- Digital tools when managing infrastructure;
- Influence of natural hazards on the normal functioning of infrastructure;
- Green deal strategies for infrastructure.
Prof. Dr. Roode Liias
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban and rural infrastructure
- professional competence for infrastructure management
- developing infrastructure networks
- standards for regeneration of infrastructure
- professionalism of servicing staff
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