Smart Building Materials and Designs for Sustainable Built Environment
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: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 729
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioinspiration; heat transfer; energy efficiency; simulations; sustainability; built environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to promote a debate on the recent advances in and future challenges for smart building materials and designs that aim to achieve a sustainable built environment. We invite international researchers to share their recent achievements in the development of smart building materials and novel (bioinspired and non-bioinspired) designs and their application at the scale of a building or city. Reviews of the current state of the art and proposals for the implementation of advanced materials and technologies in creation of a sustainable built environment are welcome. The primary topics covered within this thematic cover the following aspects:
- building material development;
- building material properties;
- bioinspired materials;
- bioinspired designs;
- heat transfer mechanisms;
- energy estimation and analysis;
- micro-climatic analysis;
- urband heat island effect;
- optimisation;
- low-carbon buildings;
- net-zero energy buildings;
- thermal comfort;
- computational simulations;
- experimental measurements.
The above list of topics may not be exhaustive. As such, researchers should feel free to submit contributions on any additional topic that could be relevant to the field of sustainable built envrionment.
Dr. Kishor Zingre
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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 monthly 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
- building materials
- heat transfer
- low carbon
- thermal comfort
- built environment
