Advances in Circular Economy in Built Environments
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 769
Special Issue Editors
Interests: railway infrastructure; circular economy; resilience; sustainability; digitalisation
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Interests: railway track structural health monitoring; ground penetrating radar for ballast layer inspection; track geometry inspection; track structure optimization; sleeper design; ballast layer design; railway circularity; waste tyre reuse; recycled ballast reuse; smart railway maintenance
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Interests: sustainable energy systems; building-integrated sustainable energy systems; circular economy; building circularity; circular value chain; sustainable development goals; LCA; sustainable engineering
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Interests: structural engineering; structural stability; structural dynamics and vibration; transportation infrastructure; construction and building materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world faces many challenges due to the negative environmental impacts stemming from the construction and maintenance of built environments. Societies, governments and industry sectors worldwide have thus been seeking more efficient and sustainable methods of construction. Many interdisciplinary efforts have considered circular thinking in construction practices, maintenance technologies and asset management, integrating resource circularity into sustainability frameworks. This Special Issue will help to promote new advancements in implementing circularity potential in built environments, including infrastructures, buildings, tunneling, stadiums, airports and many others.
Topics that will be covered include: (i) supporting designers and engineers in developing more innovative and sustainable buildings, infrastructure and built environments; (ii) and enabling national/local governments to adopt Circular Economy (CE) technologies, methods and innovation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Construction adaptability;
- Benchmarking framework;
- Deconstruction;
- Stakeholder management;
- BIM and digital twin;
- Sustainable materials;
- Sustainable construction;
- Sustainable asset management;
- Sustainable development;
- Net zero and NZEB concept;
- Lifecycle assessment;
- Smart cities;
- Carbon neutrality;
- Resilience.
This Special Issue will also disseminate new research related to circular economy in collaboration with the EU COST.
Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen
Dr. Yunlong Guo
Prof. Dr. Charalampos Baniotopoulos
Dr. Chayut Ngamkhanong
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- circular economy
- building circularity
- materials circularity
- circular value chain
- built environment
- sustainable development goals
