Circularity Research and Innovation Towards Sustainable Cities and Built Environment

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Dear Colleagues,

The world faces many challenges due to the negative environmental impacts stemming from the construction and maintenance of built environments. Societies, governments and industry sectors worldwide have thus been seeking more efficient and sustainable methods of construction. Many interdisciplinary efforts have considered circular thinking in construction practices, maintenance technologies and asset management, integrating resource circularity into sustainability frameworks. This Topic will help to promote new advancements in implementing circularity potential in built environments, including infrastructures, buildings, tunneling, stadiums, airports and many others. Topics that will be covered include the following: (i) supporting designers and engineers in developing more innovative and sustainable buildings, infrastructure and built environments; (ii) enabling national/local governments to adopt Circular Economy (CE) technologies, methods and innovation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: construction adaptability; benchmarking framework; deconstruction; Stakeholder management; BIM and digital twins; sustainable materials; sustainable construction; sustainable asset management; sustainable development; net zero and the NZEB concept; lifecycle assessment; smart cities; carbon neutrality; resilience. This Topic will also disseminate new research and innovation related to circular economy in collaboration with the EU COST.

Prof. Dr. Luís Bragança
Prof. Dr. Charalampos Baniotopoulos
Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Applied Sciences applsci	2.5	5.5	2011	19.8 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Buildings buildings	3.1	4.4	2011	14.9 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	3.3	7.7	2009	19.3 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Infrastructures infrastructures	2.9	6.0	2016	15.7 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Applied System Innovation asi	3.7	9.9	2018	27 Days	CHF 1600	Submit

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