Advanced Materials and Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings and Public Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 9263
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Interests: environmental engineering; sustainable water; sewage and waste management; stormwater systems; water quality; soil moisture and hydraulic conductivity measurements; numerical modeling of water flow in pipelines and soil media
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Interests: sustainability; urban stormwater management; sustainable rural sanitation; economic aspects of sustainable development; porous media hydraulics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Buildings and public services, in which urbanized populations spend most of their time, are responsible for almost half of the world’s energy and resource usage. Thus, development and popularization of smart building ideas seem to be crucial to support the sustainable development of urbanized areas. Optimization and minimization of resource and energy usage in smart buildings is directly connected to residents’ quality of life, including indoor environment, water and sewage management, lighting, information, security, etc., managed by the wholly automated systems.
The Special Issue of MDPI Sustainability “Advanced Materials and Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings and Public Infrastructure” will publish original research, which adds knowledge to the current understanding of sustainable engineering materials, technologies, devices and software, allowing us to achieve the smart building idea.
The scope of this Special Issue includes original articles, case studies and critical review papers presenting the following topics:
- New trends in the design of sustainable smart buildings and public services, suitable for current climate changes;
- Energy and resource saving sustainable materials and technologies for smart buildings;
- Water and sewage management, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire protection, monitoring, etc., systems for smart buildings;
- Integrated automated systems, devices and software for smart buildings management;
- Financial, social, environmental, technical and legal sustainability studies of materials, technologies, devices, etc., applied in smart buildings and public services.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue.
Dr. Anna Musz-Pomorska
Dr. Marcin K. Widomski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green buildings
- sustainable buildings
- renewable resources
- smart buildings
- waste and water management
- green energy
- low-energy building
- cost efficiency
- sustainable materials
- low impact development
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