Promoting Green, Sustainable, and Resilient Urban Construction

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 217

Special Issue Editors

School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Interests: sustainable urbanization; infrastructure resilience assessment; urban regeneration governance; stakeholder management; smart community construction
College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518061, China
Interests: building sustainability based on smart technologies (construction waste management, green building, LCA, prefabricated building, BIM); sustainable urbanization
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School of Management, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Interests: collaborative governance of project stakeholders; meta-infrastructure engineering project governance; smart community construction; resilience of project teams; digital transformation of the construction industry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of urbanization, humans are increasingly facing problems concerning resources, population, the economy, and the ecological environment due to the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) era. The urgent development of resilient and sustainable infrastructures, buildings, and cities is of paramount importance.

This Special Issue, entitled "Promoting Green, Sustainable, and Resilient Urban Construction", aims to publish the latest research outcomes that promote urban construction towards heightened sustainability and resilience. We cordially invite scholars from around the world to contribute innovative theoretical, methodological, and empirical research papers that may encompass a diverse array of topics including, though not limited to, urban regeneration, green cities, smart cities, urban infrastructure, and city resilience. Papers on new theoretical and technological advancements, together with practical approaches, are invited to achieve the objectives of sustainable cities and future societies.

We welcome papers on the following and related topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Innovative urban planning approaches;
  • Innovative business modes of urban regeneration;
  • Old residential community renovation governance;
  • Integration and coordination of urban agglomerations;
  • Green cities assessment and operation management;
  • Green community design, assessment, and operation;
  • Green community investment and financing modes;
  • Smart community operation and maintenance;
  • Low carbon housing assessment, operation, and maintenance;
  • Low carbon transformation modes of sustainable cities;
  • Urban infrastructure construction and operation;
  • Urban emergency management;
  • Urban lifeline safety management;
  • Climate-resilient urban infrastructure assessment;
  • Policy and governance strategies to promote sustainable urbanization;
  • Assessing and enhancing the resilience of city infrastructure systems.

Dr. Lin Zhang
Dr. Zezhou Wu
Dr. Hong Xue
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban regeneration construction
  • sustainable design
  • green cities
  • low carbon community
  • urban resilience
  • infrastructure resilience
  • project governance
  • stakeholder management
  • operation and maintenance

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