Circular Economy Innovations and Breakthroughs for Built Environments

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 Special Issue will help to promote new research and innovation and breakthroughs for implementing circular economy practices in built environments, including infrastructures, buildings, tunnelling, 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, infrastructures and built environments and

(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 twin; sustainable materials; sustainable construction; sustainable asset management; sustainable development; net zero and NZEB concept; lifecycle assessment; smart cities; carbon neutrality; and resilience.

This Special Issue will also disseminate new research related to circular economy in collaboration with the EU COST.

Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen
Prof. Dr. Katerina Tsikaloudaki
Prof. Dr. Ruben P. Borg
Dr. Yunlong Guo
Topic Editors