Sustainable Engineering and Science
A section of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Section Information
This Section discusses research topics related to sustainable engineering and sustainable science. Over the past few decades, sustainable ideas have been introduced into engineering-related fields at an astonishing speed. This has caused related industries to adopt eco-friendly materials applications or sustainable technologies/designs for the benefit of future generations. We hope this Section will be a platform in academia to share thoughts and innovations regarding sustainable engineering and science.
This Section encourages submissions related to:
- Civil engineering, structural engineering, and construction technology: smart and sustainable structural design; innovative technology and materials application, e.g., building information modelling (BIM), city information modelling (CIM), etc.; construction engineering management;
- Healthy and energy-saving indoor environment: ventilation, indoor climate; human comfort and sustainable development; acoustics, lighting, etc., in a sustainable built environment;
- Structural health monitoring (applications of data analysis, sensor techniques): sensing of built structures for sustainable development; real-time analysis and maintenance of structures for sustainability; digital twins in civil engineering for sustainability; sustainable sensor applications in civil engineering;
- Sustainable construction engineering, application of new construction materials: novel technology in construction engineering; new construction materials, such as tire-derived aggregate (materials coming from the waste);
- Infrastructure/structures maintenance: energy-saving related retrofitting; sustainable applications of facade engineering (solar facades); infrastructure monitoring (tunnels, bridges, etc.); life cycle assessment in civil engineering;
- Geotechnical engineering related: sustainable applications of foundation engineering; geotechnical engineering design and practices for sustainability; environmental geotechnics;
- Sustainable earthquake engineering applications: seismic analysis and design of built structures; sustainable and earthquake-resistant structures; earthquake engineering and hazard mitigation;
- Sustainable engineering design, engineering management, and engineering optimization: sustainable engineering design; engineering management for sustainability; engineering optimization;
- Sustainable industrial engineering and safety engineering: applications of industrial engineering and industrial design; safety engineering and sustainability;
- Novel and sustainable applications in other engineering fields, such as systems engineering, ecological engineering, environmental engineering, water engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, renewable energy engineering and systems, transportation engineering, etc.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Intelligent Information Exploration: Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Systems in Sustainability (Deadline: 23 September 2023)
- Advances in Structural Reliability Analysis and Maintenance Management (Deadline: 25 September 2023)
- Slope Stability Analysis and Landslide Disaster Prevention (Deadline: 28 September 2023)
- Sustainable Development in Production and Logistics Systems (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Advances in Sustainable Machining Processes and Technologies (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Shaping towards Sustainability in Architecture and Civil Engineering (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Waste Materials for Sustainable Pavement: Solutions and Challenges (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Advanced Developments and Applications of Digital Twins in Construction Industry (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Sustainable Development of Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Anaerobic Environmental Biotechnology and Sustainability II (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Enabling Technologies and Methods for Sustainable Remanufacturing System (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Applications of Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics for Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Sustainability Assessment and Risk Management of Engineering Construction Project (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- The Application of Industrial Internet of Things in Sustainable Development (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence-Based Signal Processing for Sustainability (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Structural Damage Detection and Quick Repair Assisted by AI Technologies (Deadline: 1 October 2023)
- Fatigue Damage Monitoring, Assessment and Reinforcement Method in Steel Bridge (Deadline: 1 October 2023)
- Construction Materials for Sustainable Structures (Deadline: 2 October 2023)
- Bridge Engineering for Sustainability (Deadline: 7 October 2023)
- Green and Scientific Design of Deep Underground Engineering (Deadline: 15 October 2023)
- Emerging Technologies, Sustainable Engineering and Cybersecurity in the Digital Age (Deadline: 15 October 2023)
- Sustainability in Cultural Heritage Conservation (Deadline: 18 October 2023)
- Coal Mine Intelligent Mining and Rock Formation Control (Deadline: 18 October 2023)
- Sustainable Construction Management Practices and Productivity (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Sustainable Production & Operations Management (Deadline: 23 October 2023)
- Concrete Characteristics and Experimental Research in Civil Engineering on Low-Carbon Concrete (Deadline: 23 October 2023)
- Underground Space Planning and Design for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 24 October 2023)
- Sustainability of Phase Change Materials Used in Buildings (Deadline: 26 October 2023)
- Optimization, Big Data, and Data Mining-Related Challenges in Industrial Decision-Making to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals (Deadline: 27 October 2023)
- Climate Change and Freshwater Sustainability (Deadline: 27 October 2023)
- Paving the Way for Sustainability through the Use of Cork-Based Materials (Deadline: 30 October 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence: A Key Role towards Industry 5.0 (Deadline: 30 October 2023)
- Digital Technology in Sustainable Manufacturing Systems (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Sustainable Bridge: Design, Construction, Maintenance and Retrofitting (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Geomechanics, Georesources and Their Role to Combat the Climate Emergency (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Road Safety and Road Infrastructure Design (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Sustainable Study of Chemical Engineering and Waste Management (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Impacts of COVID-19 on the Sustainability of Engineering Industries and National Economies (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Sustainable Engineering: Prevention of Rock and Thermal Damage (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Machine and Deep Learning for the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (Deadline: 1 November 2023)
- Sustainable Materials and Structures in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 7 November 2023)
- Resilience and Agility of Supply Chains and Their Impact on Sustainability (Deadline: 12 November 2023)
- Towards Sustainable Construction: Construction Management and Project Planning/Controls (Deadline: 14 November 2023)
- Application of Information Technology (IT) for Sustainability (Deadline: 15 November 2023)
- Healthy and Sustainable Built Environment Solutions towards Building Decarbonization (Deadline: 18 November 2023)
- Safety Risk Management of Hydraulic Engineering Operation (Deadline: 19 November 2023)
- Sustainable Development of Battery Technology to Promote the Electric Vehicles (Deadline: 19 November 2023)
- Sustainability and Resilience of Bridge and Civil Engineering (Deadline: 19 November 2023)
- Structural Engineering Simulation and Optimization for Sustainability (Deadline: 20 November 2023)
- Marine Geotechnical Engineering and Marine Civil Engineering Construction (Volume II) (Deadline: 23 November 2023)
- Analysis and Modeling for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 29 November 2023)
- Numerical Analysis of Rock Mechanics and Crack Propagation (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Scheduling, Optimization of Production Systems and Equipment Maintenance: Towards Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Sustainable Electric Power Systems: Design, Analysis and Control (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Sustainable Development in Smart Apparel Design and Evaluation (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Integration of Demand-Side Flexibility into Smart Grids (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Pavement Structures and Civil Engineering for Sustainability (Deadline: 4 December 2023)
- Modelling and Optimization for Sustainable Resource Development (Deadline: 10 December 2023)
- Modelling Sustainable Engineered Systems (Deadline: 10 December 2023)
- Solar Energy Utilization and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 10 December 2023)
- Smart Manufacturing and Autonomous Systems for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 13 December 2023)
- Computational Methods and Data-Driven Techniques in Sustainability Science (Deadline: 15 December 2023)
- Waste Management and Recycling for Sustainability (Deadline: 16 December 2023)
- Disaster Resilience and Sustainability of Structures and Infrastructures (Deadline: 30 December 2023)
- Sustainable Design and Risk Assessment for Railway Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Sustainable Development of Industrial Engineering With the Application of Intelligent Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Seismic Vulnerability and Sustainable Building Materials for Risk Reduction Strategies in Urban Areas (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Deep Learning-Empowered Sustainable Development: Challenges, Methods, and Prospects (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Recent Advances in Green Building Projects and Sustainable Design (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Recent Advances in Architecture Materials and Structures for Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Development and Utilization of Marine Renewable Energy for Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Sustainable Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Sustainable Research of Geotechnical Engineering Developments in Underground Space and Tunnel Excavation (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Enhancement of Reliability and Sustainability in Electric Power Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Engineering for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2030 Agenda (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Megatrends in Construction: Where Does Sustainability Stand in Civil Engineering? (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Modelling Material Performance in Sustainable Construction (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Evolving Applications for Smart Vehicles (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Mine Disasters Control and Synergetic Mining: Challenges to Mine Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Future Prospects of Machine Learning, Data Mining and IoT in Smart and Sustainable Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Contemporary Advances in Industry 4.0 Technologies and Theories for Manufacturing Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Sustainable Study of Industrial Ecology, Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Sustainable Chemicals, Practices, and Environmental Engineering for Energy, Civil, and Resources Industries (Deadline: 10 January 2024)
- Recent Advances in Biorefinery Approaches for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 10 January 2024)
- Sustainability of Reinforced Concrete (Deadline: 15 January 2024)
- Geological Insights for a Carbon-Free, Sustainable Environment (Deadline: 17 January 2024)
- Sustainable Power System Planning and Analysis (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Energy Efficiency and Life Quality in Indoor Environment (Deadline: 21 January 2024)
- Complex System Dynamics and Intelligent Control for Sustainable Engineering (Deadline: 24 January 2024)
- Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization: From a Sustainability Perspective (Deadline: 25 January 2024)
- Indoor/Outdoor Environment Quality: Simulation, Measurement and Evaluation (Deadline: 27 January 2024)
- Advances on Nanomaterials for Engineering Technologies (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Engineering Disaster Prevention and Mitigation: Challenges to Civil Infrastructure Sustainability (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Reliability of Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy Generation Systems (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Advances in Education for Sustainable Computing, Communications and Applied Engineering (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Renewable Energy Sources: A Solution in the Operation of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems (Deadline: 10 February 2024)
- Advances in Sustainable Geotechnical Structure and Geomaterials (Deadline: 15 February 2024)
- A Study on Sustainable Geological Disaster Prevention and Control in Engineering (Deadline: 16 February 2024)
- Rock Discontinuities at Different Scales: New Advances from Lab Tests to Field Applications (Deadline: 17 February 2024)
- Optical Engineering Applications for Smart Agriculture (Deadline: 18 February 2024)
- Green Engineering and Sustainable Development in Production and Resource Management (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Reliable and Sustainable Materials for Use in Structural Engineering Applications for the Built Environment (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Geographic Big Data Analysis and Urban Sustainable Development (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Sustainable Construction through Utilization of Optimization Tools and Experimental Methods (Deadline: 1 March 2024)
- AI in Action: Advancing Infrastructure Inspection, Monitoring, and Management for Sustainable and Resilient Performance (Deadline: 1 March 2024)
- Sustainability Advances in Engineering Project Management and Environmental Management (Deadline: 5 March 2024)
- Sustainability in Pavement Materials and Design (Deadline: 5 March 2024)
- Sustainability and Engineering Design (Deadline: 9 March 2024)
- Sustainable Seismic Engineering: Materials, Methods, and Multidisciplinary Approaches (Deadline: 15 March 2024)
- Toward Sustainability in Bridge Engineering for Complex and Harsh Environments (Deadline: 15 March 2024)
- Sustainable Building Materials and Construction Engineering (Deadline: 18 March 2024)
- Sustainability and Automation: Intelligent Control and Its Applications (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Operations Research: Optimization, Resilience and Sustainability (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 24 March 2024)
- Sustainability in Biomass and Waste Fuels Utilization (Deadline: 28 March 2024)
- Advances in Sustainable Hydraulic and Water Resource Engineering (Deadline: 29 March 2024)
- Ship Recycling Industry and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 30 March 2024)
- Advances in Wind Engineering for Sustainable Structure (Deadline: 30 March 2024)
- Industry 4.0 in Support of Process Transformation (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Advanced Energy Saving Technologies for Sustainable Energy Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Mechanical Behavior, Healthy Monitoring and Service Performance Assessment of Composite Bridges (Deadline: 1 April 2024)
- Sustainability in Industrial Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 10 April 2024)
- Sustainable Experience Design Education (Deadline: 12 April 2024)
- Sustainable Management and Design of Renewable Power Systems (Deadline: 25 April 2024)
- Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Water Distribution Systems (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Simulation and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Industrial and Service Systems (Deadline: 3 May 2024)
- Sustainable Development of Underground Engineering and Tunnel Construction Technology (Deadline: 6 May 2024)
- Low-Carbon Transportation (Deadline: 19 May 2024)
- Future Trends of Sustainable Rock Engineering (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- The Development of Underground Projects in Urban Areas—2nd Edition (Deadline: 21 May 2024)
- Application of Geotechnical Engineering and Monitoring Technology in Sustainable Tunnels (Deadline: 21 May 2024)
- Data-Driven Systems Engineering: Toward Sustainable of Logistics and Supply Chains Processes (Deadline: 30 May 2024)
- Sustainability in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Technological Innovation for Sustainable Tunneling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 1 June 2024)
- Intelligent Solutions for the Sustainability of Bridges and Structures—Second Edition (Deadline: 1 June 2024)
- Green Infrastructure in Suburban Settings: Risk and Reward (Deadline: 7 June 2024)
- Construction Materials for Safe and Sustainable Built Structures (Deadline: 10 June 2024)
- Smart Sustainable Techniques and Technologies for Industry 5.0 (Deadline: 14 June 2024)
- Advances in Integrated Technology of Fracturing and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Tight Reservoirs (Deadline: 14 June 2024)
- Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering: Intelligent Construction, Monitoring and Maintenance of Civil Infrastructure (Deadline: 17 June 2024)
- Wind Turbine Decommissioning: Dismantling, Demolition, Recycling, Reuse and Repurposing (Deadline: 26 June 2024)
- Digital Twinning Technologies for Sustainable Robotic Automation and Digital Management of Construction (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- The Impact of Landslides on Terrain, Environment, and Ecosystem (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Designing for the Future: Pioneering Sustainable Engineering Solutions for a Greener World (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Sustainable Perspective on Power Systems and Renewable Energy (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Sustainable Construction Materials and Technology—2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Advances in Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering and Civil Engineering (Deadline: 1 July 2024)
- Advancing Sustainability in Rock Mechanics and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 21 July 2024)
- Sustainable Information Technology Development, Privacy Security and Digital Ecosystem (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Methods and Technologies towards a Sustainable Future in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Trends of Industry 5.0: Smart Systems, Sustainable Production and Lean Thinking Applications (Deadline: 10 August 2024)
- Interpretable and Explainable AI Applications (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Sustainable Application of Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Sustainable Advancements and Modeling in Machinability of Difficult-to-Cut Composites and Alloys (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Circular Economy Approaches for Lifecycles of Products and Services
- New Frontiers in Production Engineering
- Structural Sensing and Sustainable Infrastructure Maintenance
- Sustainability in Geotechnics: The Use of Environmentally Friendly Materials
- Sustainable Development of Engineering Management and Project Management
- ZEMCH International Research Series