Circular Design and Sustainability Assessments for the Built Environment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 10473
Special Issue Editors
Interests: life cycle assessment; sustainability evaluations; renewable energy
Interests: circular buildings; sustainable structural design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit contributions to a Special Issue in the Journal of Applied Sciences on “Circular Design and Sustainability Assessments for the Built Environment”. The built environment generates considerable environmental impacts, consumes enormous amounts of resources, and generates tons of waste. This is a cause for great global concern and has led to considerable political attention and initiatives. The transition to a circular economy has seen a growth of a variety of design strategies and parameters, sustainability assessment, and decision support tools to address these challenges. The topic of this Special Issue is all valid updates on new insights, methods and/or reviews on circular design strategies, and sustainability assessments focusing on the built environment.
The topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):
- Design and construction strategies for circular buildings and structures, including design for change strategies, reuse, and stock management;
- Circular building products and systems;
- Circularity indicators;
- Sustainability assessment methods, such as life cycle assessment and material flow analysis for the built environment;
- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods for the circular built environment;
- Design for environment;
- Building information modelling and circular design;
- Monitoring and evaluation of reuse potential of building structures and materials.
All original articles, case reports, and review articles are welcome for submission.
Dr. Neethi Rajagopalan
Dr. Stijn Brancart
Prof. Dr. Mauro Overend
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- circular design
- circular buildings
- life cycle assessment
- sustainability assessment
- multi-criteria decision making
- design for disassembly
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