Advances in Sustainable Building Material Engineering
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 53358
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past seven decades, we have witnessed amazing advances, not just technological progress, but also human progress. Sustainable construction is a construction that meets the requirements of sustainable development and can be defined as a pursuit to ensure economic development and social health while reducing the negative impact of construction on the environment. Sustainable development is one of the leading civilization ideas, but also a necessity for civilization development, i.e., development that meets current needs without limiting the needs of future generations. Everything is from something, and every structure is from construction materials. The construction industry consumes more than 40% of produced energy, about 50% of the mass of materials, and the building industry emits 35% of greenhouse gases. Without any doubt, it is commonly accepted that sustainable development is now a fundamental requirement for construction. In general terms, sustainable products mean: minimal matter (energy + mass) consumed throughout the entire life cycle "from the cradle to the grave" with minimum negative impact on the environment, as well as ensuring the comfort of use. In economic terms, it means decoupling of resource use from economic growth and decoupling of environmental impact from resource use. In this case, “decoupling” also means “more for less”.
Civil engineering as a discipline of applied science is always searching for its place on the maps of knowledge. Each of the papers in this area combines two components: science and engineering, balanced in various ways. One of the dilemmas of building material engineering is the following controversy: requirement of durability (>50 years) versus the risk of innovation in the light of sustainability as the overriding theme. We need to ensure that each construction element meets the requirements, not only at the time of testing, but also that it will be good enough after many years of service life. In short, innovation versus sustainable building creates challenges and limitations.
The overriding sustainability requirement is also addressed covering building repair and protection, as well as finally demolition, re-use, and waste product recycling.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
- Sustainable development challenging building material engineering;
- Philosophy of sustainable building material engineering;
- Innovation versus sustainability;
- Building material sustainability measures;
- The “comfort of use” as a sustainability indicator;
- Nanotechnology versus sustainable building products;
- Biobased building materials;
- Improvement of the energy performance of buildings;
- Durability as building sustainability requirement;
- Sustainable materials and sustainable buildings;
- Building repairing and protection as an ultimate act of sustainability;
- Revitalization capacity in historic buildings;
- Sustainable building demolition;
- Building product reuse and recycling;
- Circular building economy;
- Concrete as recycling waste product deposit;
- Carbon trapping concrete.
It is useful to mention that other Special Issues with “sustainability” as a keyword have already been or are planned to be published in Buildings, including:
- 2020: Sustainable Built Environment: Advanced Ventilation and Energy Efficient Technologies;
- 2019: Sustainable Development of Buildings: Design, Construction, Quality Inspection, Operation Management;
- 2018: Building Sustainability Assessment;
- 2018: Sustainable Vertical Urbanism;
- 2018: Addressing Sustainable Building Refurbishment: A Journey through Energy Optimization and Structural Retrofit;
- 2018: Sustainable Building Materials;
- 2013: Sustainable Design and Construction.
Dr. Lech Czarnecki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable building materials
- building material engineering
- durability
- sustainable building repairing
- sustainable building demolution
- recycling
- nanotechnology
- innovation.
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