Architecture, Structures and Construction - Call for Papers - Architectural Design and Construction for Smart and Sustainable Buildings and Cities
Guest Editors: Dr. Francesca Perugia, Curtin University, Australia Dr. Zhou Fang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Dr. Subashini Suresh, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Prof. Ellyn Lester, Pennsylvania College of Technology, USA
Submission Status: Open | Submission deadline: 29 February 2024
Description Before the pandemic, society stood on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. However, the pandemic forced new ways of working, producing numerous tactics and adaptions among different built environment groups. Set against great uncertainty, responses will need to be integrated and comprehensive, involving stakeholders from the public and private sectors, academia and communities. This special issue will include the following topics, among others:
Architectural, urban, cultural and management contexts
Procurement to improve the quality of the built environment
Theoretical approaches for planning and development
Designing cities and the built environment for social inclusion
Informal cities
Improving the delivery of infrastructure from economic and social perspectives
Approaches to infrastructure assessment, sustainable solutions and whole-life use
Impacts of the pandemic on the design and construction of buildings and what are the cascading impacts
Impacts in work/life balance, health, safety, and knowledge sharing
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process.
Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at WBC2022 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of WBC2022 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue/topical collection and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.
Accepted papers are published Online First until the complete Special Issue is published.
Meet the Guest Editors: Dr. Francesca Perugia is the Course Coordinator for the Urban and Regional Planning at Curtin university (Perth, Australia). Francesca is an early career housing researcher with extensive knowledge of the housing sector in Australia and internationally. In her academic work, Francesca brings the knowledge and leadership skills gained through research and advocacy in the not-for-profit sectors at a European level, the professional knowledge of the construction industry, and a deep understanding of institutional and governmental processes, ethic, directions, and priorities relative to policy development and delivery of complex affordable housing projects. She is currently involved as researcher with The Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre (SBEnrc).
Dr. Zhou Fang is currently a lecturer at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Zhou is a member of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) network of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB). She received her BA in Environmental Design and BEng in Architecture from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, MSc in Architectural Studies from University of Florida, and Ph.D. in Building and Real Estate from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Furthering her doctoral research on design management and design standardization, she is also aware of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic and conducting studies on its associations with the built environment. Her research journey was funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China and Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship in Hong Kong, China. Prior to joining Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhou worked as an architectural design manager in the industry and interned at Asian Development Bank. She maintains close links with the industry.
Dr Subashini Suresh is currently a Reader of Construction Project Management and Director for Postgraduate Research Programme at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton. She is a Commission Coordinator of the CIB Commission W102 – Information and Knowledge Management in Building. She has been a post-doctoral researcher, lecturer, senior lecturer and principal lecturer. She was Seconded as an Associate Professor at the Bradley University, United States of America. She was the REF joint coordinator for 2014 and 2021 (from 2017 to 2019) for Unit of Assessment C13 (Architecture, Built Environment and Planning). She has been a Athena SWAN champion from 2016-2019. She was also on the Athena SWAN University Self-Assessment Team. She has lectured nationally and internationally in areas such as sustainable development, knowledge management, project management, smart cities and health and safety. She has contributed in 200 publications in various international journals and conferences, and has hosted, chaired and presented at many conferences in her areas of expertise. She has successfully executed research projects in various capacities and has been the lead in several projects. Successfully, she has supervised 19 PhD students. She also sits on many National and International Scientific Committees to do with research in Architecture, Engineering and Construction.
Prof. Ellyn Lester is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Built Environment Programs, as well as the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, for the Department of Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Before Stevens, she was at New School of Architecture and Design and her positions, e.g. Vice President of Membership and Marketing at the Design-Build Institute of America, promoted A/E/C excellence. Lester has recently presented at CIB International Research, ECC International, and CMAA National. Her awards include NAWIC’s 2019-2020 Carol A Kueker Construction Education Visionary Award, the 2012 AIA California Council’s Associate of the Year, DBIA’s Chapter of the Year in 2003, and SMPS’s Striving for Excellence Grand Prize in 2001.Her current research interests center around "Mentorship as a Vehicle for Knowledge Sharing in the Built Environment" and "Gaining Competitive Advantage in Project-Based, Cyclical Environments."
