Sustainable Construction and Building Materials for Environment

Dear Colleagues,

The global concern for climate change, global warming, and increasing pollution has made it imperative for policy makers throughout the world to devise green strategies for sustainable future. The construction industry remains a major target for environmental sustainability due to its consumption of the largest portion of materials resources, water, and energy and its contribution to landfill sites.

Within this context, construction and building materials play an important role in reaching that aim. Along this line, today, the use of green and eco-friendly materials has become a major topic of study, because they allow lessening energy consumption and minimizing waste production during the construction process, as well as reusing and recycling residues produced in other industrial processes. In addition to this, developing more durable materials also contributes to sustainability, because they will reduce the high environmental impact of maintenance, repairs, and replacement of traditional construction materials commonly used in structures, buildings, and other civil engineering and architecture works. In relation to these construction works, it is important to highlight the relatively recent use of new project management methodologies, such as building information modeling (BIM), which will also be very useful in improving sustainability aspects related to construction projects in the near future.

The present Special Issue of the journal Sustainability welcomes research papers reporting studies, strategies or practical cases related to sustainable construction and building materials for environment.

Prof. Dr. José Marcos Ortega
Prof. Dr. Fernando G. Branco
Dr. Viviana Letelier
Guest Editors

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