Dear Colleagues,

The construction industry supports the economy and social development in any country. However, it has significant impacts on the environment, such as the depletion of natural resources, carbon emissions, energy consumption, waste generation,  and water consumption. Hence, it is essential to find solutions to bring sustainability to the construction industry.

In this context, on the one hand, implementing innovative design concepts and strategies by applying the high-quality recycling of construction and demolition waste, designing for collective reuse, designing demountable and modular constructions, and administering construction materials by the use of Material Banks is a contemporary solution which can promote circular economy but has not yet been achieved. On the other hand, finding alternate renewable bio-degradable sustainable materials that can replace the conventional construction materials has been advocated as fostering sustainable development in the construction industry.

Therefore, this Special Issue provides a platform for scientists and researchers to present recent progress in innovative research and development on sustainability in the construction industry and to report the new sustainable materials and their applications. Works that contribute to advancing our knowledge of advanced technologies and their applications for the sustainable development in construction are also welcome in this Special Issue. 

This Special Issue seeks contributions on topics including but not limited to the following:

• Sustainable built environment;
• Monitoring;
• New materials for sustainable buildings;
• Advanced recycling technologies and materials;
• Recycling/reusability;
• Material and component banks;
• Sustainable water management;
• Sustainable traffic management and transport systems;
• Innovative technologies and systems;
• Building information modelling;
• Internet of Things and blockchain;
• Assessment methods and tools for sustainable buildings;
• Certification and reliability in the context of circularity of the built environment.

Prof. Dr. Danièle Waldmann-Diederich
Dr. Laddu Bhagya Jayasinghe
Guest Editors

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• circular economy
• sustainable built environment
• recycling/reuse
• building information modelling
• Internet of Things
• blockchain
• life-cycle assessment
• renewable materials