Sustainable Building Materials in Construction Engineering
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 October 2024 | Viewed by 434
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability evaluation; environmental engineering; building material; optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, sustainable development is an essential topic for both developed and developing countries; thus, to achieve sustainable development, politicians and decision makers must first follow sustainable construction. One of the avenues that can be used to achieve sustainable construction is the use of sustainable materials.
On the other hand, in order to achieve sustainable development, the requirements of the current generation must be met without compromising the ability to meet the requirements of the next generation. The requirements of the next generation cannot be predicted, but the negative environmental effects of development as well as the quality of materials can be optimized. In order to reduce environmental issues and social inequality, the use of raw materials, fossil energy, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions must be decreased. Furthermore, renewable energy and recycled materials can meet the criteria.
Stronger materials, with regard to mechanical strength, durability against weathering, and environmental problems, can meet sustainable development because they cannot only meet safety, health, security, adaptivity, and other social indicators, but they can also decrease maintenance costs. In brief, the social indicators are too numerous and some of the unknown parts of sustainability studies.
This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, research on the following topics:
-Sustainability evaluation of building materials for use in building and other construction projects, such as conductive concrete in roads and highways.
-Sustainable evaluation with which to design and develop industrial buildings.
-Finding novel knowledge in social and technical indicators of building materials for sustainability evaluation.
-The mechanical and environmental features of building materials, especially for recycled building materials.
-The effect of reusing waste on the environmental and physical behavior of building materials.
-Environmental evaluation of building materials.
-Optimizing the use of raw materials and energy in material production.
Dr. Aydin Shishegaran
Prof. Dr. Mohsen Saeedi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability evaluation
- sustainable building material
- sustainability evaluation for optimized structures
- new social and technical indicators
- recycled building materials
- reuse waste in the creation of building materials
- environmental evaluation of building materials
- optimization of the use of raw materials
