Fire Resilience and Safety Innovations in Buildings
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 55
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fire safety engineering; fire modelling; material and structure under fire; cladding materials; intumescent coating; sustainable building materials; steel–concrete composite technology; prefabricated composite structures
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Interests: fire modelling; fire materials; flame retardants; computational fluid dynamics; molecular dynamics; battery thermal management; pyrolysis
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Interests: fire testing of polymeric and composite materials; fire modelling; framework in fire safety; bushfire; building codes and fire safety compliance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fires in buildings continue to be a major global safety concern, particularly as climate change and urban density exacerbate the risk of fire. Additionally, emerging energy sources and technologies introduce new fire hazards that require updated safety approaches. Many traditional fire protection systems are limited in their abilities or are increasingly insufficient to address these evolving hazards. This Special Issue focuses on enhancing fire resilience and safety in buildings by showcasing practical innovations, research advances, and new design approaches.
The primary goal of this Special Issue is to advance the understanding and application of innovative fire resilience and safety strategies in buildings. By encouraging interdisciplinary research, technological development, and policy integration, this Special Issue aims to identify scalable solutions that can reduce fire-related risks, enhance building performance under fire conditions, and improve post-event recovery. Through the collection of original research articles, case studies, and practical insights, this Issue seeks to establish fire safety as a foundational principle of sustainable, intelligent, and adaptive built environments.
A wide range of topics related to fire resilience and safety innovation in buildings, encompassing both established practices and emerging technologies across design, engineering, materials science, and policy domains, are welcome, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Advanced fire-resistant construction materials;
- Structural integrity under extreme fire conditions;
- Fire resilience in sustainable building design;
- Passive and active fire protection systems;
- Fire safety challenges in high-rise and complex buildings;
- Fire-safe architectural design principles;
- Fire safety of energy storage systems;
- Fire risks from EV parking and micro-mobility (E-bikes) storage in buildings;
- IoT-enabled fire safety systems;
- AI-driven fire risk prediction and management;
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) for fire simulation;
- Climate-adaptive fire protection strategies;
- Wildfire-resilient urban planning;
- Building codes and fire safety compliance;
- Performance-based fire safety approaches;
- Post-fire assessment and regulatory reform;
- Numerical modelling of fire using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and Finite Elemental Analysis (FEA);
- Computational Modelling Techniques and Framework in Fire Safety;
- Actomistic Models for Flame Retardants.
Dr. Md Kamrul Hassan
Dr. Anthony Chun Yin Yuen
Dr. Delwar Hossain
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- fire-resistant materials
- passive fire protection
- active fire suppression systems
- fire safety regulations
- evacuation planning
- smoke control systems
- structural fire resilience
- building fire codes
- thermal insulation performance
- fire detection technology
- smart fire monitoring
- AI-based fire prediction
- IoT in fire safety
- autonomous evacuation systems
- post-fire recovery strategies
- wildland–urban interface fire risk
- BIM-based fire simulation
- climate-adaptive fire design
- resilient infrastructure systems
- sustainable fire safety engineering
- electric vehicles parking
- 2D flame retardants
- MXene
- CFD
- MD
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