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Department of Water Supply and Wastewater Removal, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
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Dear Colleagues,

Buildings and public services, in which urbanized populations spend most of their time, are responsible for almost half of the world’s energy and resource usage. Thus, development and popularization of smart building ideas seem to be crucial to support the sustainable development of urbanized areas. Optimization and minimization of resource and energy usage in smart buildings is directly connected to residents’ quality of life, including indoor environment, water and sewage management, lighting, information, security, etc., managed by the wholly automated systems.

The Special Issue of MDPI Sustainability “Advanced Materials and Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings and Public Infrastructure” will publish original research, which adds knowledge to the current understanding of sustainable engineering materials, technologies, devices and software, allowing us to achieve the smart building idea.

The scope of this Special Issue includes original articles, case studies and critical review papers presenting the following topics:

New trends in the design of sustainable smart buildings and public services, suitable for current climate changes;
Energy and resource saving sustainable materials and technologies for smart buildings;
Water and sewage management, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire protection, monitoring, etc., systems for smart buildings;
Integrated automated systems, devices and software for smart buildings management;
Financial, social, environmental, technical and legal sustainability studies of materials, technologies, devices, etc., applied in smart buildings and public services.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue.

Dr. Anna Musz-Pomorska
Dr. Marcin K. Widomski
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

green buildings
sustainable buildings
renewable resources
smart buildings
waste and water management
green energy
low-energy building
cost efficiency
sustainable materials
low impact development

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Timber Structures and Prefabricated Concrete Composite Blocks as a Novel Development in Vertical Gardening

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Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14518; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114518 - 04 Nov 2022

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A modern, environmentally friendly urban lifestyle requires paying attention to landscaping and green areas. The scarcity of free land in cities and the high price of land require the combination of greenery with buildings—both vertically and horizontally. The developed green technology for construction brings together computer numerical control (CNC) processing of supporting structures and prefabricated solid planting blocks made of concrete composite. The timber structures are fixed together using traditional carpentry joints. The details, which will be manufactured in the factory using CNC processing at a controlled temperature and humidity corresponding to indoor conditions, can be easily assembled on the construction site. The high bending strength but good elasticity and connections of carpentry joints endow the structure with good properties in a non-controllable environment. By combining CNC-processed wooden structures with concrete technology as substrate composites, labor-intensive manual work in landscaping and gardening will be reduced in the future. The novel material-hardening substrate composite material uses only the residues as the raw materials. Full article

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A Comparative Study on Smart Windows Focusing on Climate-Based Energy Performance and Users’ Comfort Attributes

Zhina Rashidzadeh

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Negar Heidari Matin

Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2294; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032294 - 26 Jan 2023

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A facade can control interaction between the building and the environment. Advancements in control technologies and material science give the opportunity of using smart windows in a high-performance facade to improve the building’s energy performance and users’ comfort. This study aims to propose practical recommendations for smart windows’ implementation over various climate zones across the world. To follow this aim, 54 studies published from 2013 to 2022 collected from architecture, engineering, and material science databases and have been reviewed, and seven types of smart windows including electrochromic, photovoltachromic, gasochromic, thermochromic, photochromic, hydrochromic, and Low-E have been identified. Moreover, the thermal properties and visual features of smart coatings used in the windows and their impacts on energy efficiency and users’ comfort were recognized. Then, a comparative study was conducted to identify and propose the most efficient coating utilized in the structure of smart windows across different climate zones. Full article

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