Call for Sustainable Building

Around 39% of global CO₂ emissions come from buildings, with urbanization, economic growth and the need for cooling due to rising temperatures increasing the energy consumption of buildings every day.  Three quarters of the urban infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has yet to be built.  The built environment has the greatest and most cost-effective potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions of all sectors.

Developments in the Built Environment (DIBE) is a new peer-reviewed gold open-access (OA) journal of ScienceDigest for the publishing of original papers and short communications resulting from research in civil engineering and the built environment.  The journal covers all topics related to construction materials and building sustainability, leading to a holistic approach that will benefit the community and are permanently and freely available.

DIBE welcomes full research papers and short communications.  Short communications are short papers (max. submitted length of 6 pages incl. references) addressing new ideas that may still be in a preliminary stage, opinions, and results that are suitable for providing fast dissemination of important new outcomes and technical discussion in the field of built environment.

Developments in the Built Environment covers the following topics (but are not limited to):

• Innovative building materials;
• Building performance;
• Maintenance and repair work assessment;
• Smart Design;
• (Up/re)cyclability, transformability, reusability of materials and components;
• Structural Health Monitoring;
• Construction engineering management, materials and technology;
• Building Information Modelling (BIM);
• Computer aided-design and simulation;
• Energy efficiency, energy harvesting;
• Indoor environment;
• Life cycle assessment;
• Structural analysis, assessment, design, and testing;
• Sustainable buildings and construction; and
• System safety and reliability.

DIBE will strive to offer the fastest possible speed of publication, without compromising on the quality of our peer-review process.

Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Aggelis, PhD, of VUB University, Brussel, Belgium, is the journal’s editor in chief.

Submit your article here.