Advances in Sustainable Building and Construction Materials and Structures
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2023) | Viewed by 11349
Special Issue Editors
Interests: composite structure; reinforced concrete; computational simulation; mechanics; constitutive modeling; sandwich structure; pollutant removal
Interests: green concrete; chemical dynamics in cementitious materials; characterization of materials; composites and biocomposites; CO2 sequestration via mineralization
Special Issue Information
As the human race continues to achieve various feats in numerous fields, technological evolutions, specifically those in manufacturing industries, signal that our environmental wellness is constantly at risk due to many improper practices of discarding waste and by-products. Propelled by a growing awareness of the depletion of irreplaceable natural resources, emergent innovative methods for alternately recycling production wastes and formulating better-performing materials for environmental health sustainability are becoming the main global endeavors of material and structures researchers across the globe. Even though sustainable construction starts from the design stage, builders can invoke a big difference by selecting better materials and structures. Employing sustainable building activities substantially benefits both the environment and end users. This Special Issue aims to gather all recent findings on implementing sustainability in building and construction through the studies of materials and structures. A deeper understanding of these results from the various aspects of strengths, limitations, opportunities, and challenges helps advance our knowledge, thereby articulating improved solutions that improve the performance of materials and structures for safeguarding the sustainability of building and construction. All of these aspects are attainable through extensive research on the recycling and repurposing of waste materials, as well as the innovative, high-performing, and eco-friendly materials and structures associated with improved green technologies. Converting waste to wealth and exploiting sustainable resources by means of the conventional physical experimentation, intelligent modeling and computational analysis, design, and optimization methods. These are currently the emergent fields that will ensure a sustainable future for construction and materials disciplines. Progressively, as our awareness of the threats of many industrial waste and biowaste grows, waste-to-wealth operations in paving a greener construction revolution will develop, not only with better efficiency but also posing a low risk to ecosystems. Only with a complete understanding and thereby further optimization of currently available materials can a successful approach be put into practice to fulfill both performance and cost efficiencies in terms of economic, social, climate, and environmental implications in our lifestyle and construction practices. By implementing sustainable building and construction, we prepare all construction players by future-proofing them with future penalty risk removal.
Dear Colleagues,
Due to accelerated global modernization and its deteriorated environmental values, sustainability has long been demanded and promoted in numerous aspects of construction industries, e.g., structures, materials, transportation, pavements, geotechnics, water and eco-friendly engineering, etc. This Special Issue is devoted to the advances in sustainable building and construction through materials and structures. All innovations in encouraging and safeguarding sustainable construction practices, from engineering materials and structures of various scales, including multi-faceted discussions about their strengths, limitations, opportunities, and challenges are welcomed. A better understanding of these matters paves an improved roadmap towards achieving a greener construction revolution, not only with better efficacy but also with a lower risk to our ecosystem. Only with a comprehensive understanding and continual optimization of the present materials and structures can a successful approach be put in practice to fulfill both performance and cost efficiencies. These are both current and future research interests in the sustainability of buildings and construction.
Contributions covering physical, experimental, theoretical, computational, or field studies that inspire new advances in the sustainability of construction areas, including those filling the gap between theories and applications are encouraged. In this Special Issue, both original research articles and reviews are invited. Research fields may include, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Recycling and repurposing waste material;
- Sustainable materials and structures;
- Eco-friendly materials and structures;
- Innovative materials and structures;
- High-performing materials and structures;
- Energy-efficient materials and structures;
- Waste-to-wealth;
- Green construction;
- Sustainable resource;
- Renewable resource;
- Prefab, modular, and industrialized constructions;
- Circular construction;
- Design for manufacture and assembly;
- Intelligent model and computation;
- Analysis, design, and optimization methods;
- Building information modeling (BIM).
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ahmad Beng Hong Kueh
Dr. Nur Hafizah Binti Abd Khalid
Dr. Jamilu Usman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- recycle
- eco-friendly
- sustainable
- renewable
- sustainable material and structure
- smart material and structure
- renewable
- high-performance
- waste-to-wealth
- green construction
- sustainable construction
- building information modelling
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