Approaching Carbon Neutrality: Low-Carbon Solutions to Urban Regeneration and Green Economy 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

A large proportion of global carbon emissions comes from the building and infrastructure industry. The goal of ‘green building’ and the ‘green economy’ is to aggressively mitigate the energy demand in civil engineering. This raises new challenges for material scientists, structural engineers, planners, constructors, and operators, for example:

1. Based on the aim of energy conservation and emission reduction requirements in the process of material extraction and manufacture, how can the ‘green gene’ be implemented in structural materials (such as green cement and concrete)?
2. Based on the aim of sustainable development during urban regeneration, how can new buildings and infrastructures be built (and existing structures be upgraded) in a manner that ensures low carbon emissions?
3. Based on the aim of achieving sustainability, how should the life cycle assessment be upgraded and updated in the process of scheme planning and structural and construction design, operation, and management?

In the construction and building industry, the pursuit of these new goals requires multidisciplinary collaboration and integration to realize technical innovation whilst targeting carbon neutrality. Meanwhile, based on the pursuit of ‘efficiency’ and ‘sustainability’, the concepts of ‘whole life cycle’, ‘whole process cost management’, and ‘sustainable management’ have been firmly placed at the forefront. How to effectively implement these concepts, however, still requires further exploration.

This Special Issue will generally focus on studies involving structural materials, urban planning, structural design and optimization, and construction and energy management, which are expected to contribute to the proposal of low carbon development in urban regeneration. Therefore, contributions are expected on, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Building design and planning schemes;
• Design and analysis of sustainable building materials and structures;
• Upgrading of existing structures;
• Examples or case studies of green building and infrastructure;
• Urban and building energy management;
• Engineering project management and project cost management;
• Development of design philosophies and performance criteria of green structures or communities.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.

Prof. Dr. Zheng Lu
Dr. Jiafei Jiang
Dr. Dianchao Wang
Dr. Kunjie Rong
Guest Editors

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• sustainability
• low-carbon emissions
• environmental science
• green economy
• green building
• urban regeneration
• structural materials
• structural design and planning schemes
• structural systems
• energy management
• project management
• project cost management
• structural health monitoring
• life cycle analysis