About Buildings
Aims
Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers) that publishes original articles, critical reviews, research notes, and communications on building science, building engineering and architecture design. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers as we encourage researchers to publish their innovative ideas and results in as much detail as possible. Additionally, we encourage authors to publish related electronic files or software along with their publication as “Supplementary Material”. To guarantee a rapid refereeing and editorial process, Buildings follows standard publication practices in the natural sciences.
Scope
Main research areas include but are not limited to:
- architecture
- architectural/building engineering
- design
- building construction
- construction management
- building materials
- energy and buildings
- building operations
- building physics
- building structures
- building mechanical systems
- building lighting systems
- green buildings
- building/facility management
- the philosophy, art and science of architecture designing
- the linkages and interactions between the built environment and ecology, natural resources, climate, local communities, public policy, and economic development
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high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate
authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in
such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.
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Articles published in Buildings will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:
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