Aims and scope
Low-Carbon Materials and Green Construction is an international journal concerned with the materials and construction in civil engineering to cope with the challenges raised by climate change, together with resources and energy consumption, and is dedicated to the widest dissemination of high-quality original research and insights. This journal publishes creative and original research articles and review papers in the field of civil engineering within the context of a much broader multi-disciplinary scope, focusing on the spatiotemporal dynamic evolution of building performances, structural behaviours, and carbon emissions within the structure-environment symbiosis, and the related carbon emission reduction and sustainability issues. The contents cover the life cycle of civil engineering projects, which includes the stages of planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance, deconstruction, reuse and recycling for buildings and infrastructures on the earth, or even on other planets. The journal also welcomes papers on related topics covering aspects of environmental conservation, energy utilization and policy making to better promote the harmony between humans and nature.
The journal welcomes submissions related to issues about new construction, renovation, maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of civil engineering projects that include, but are not limited to:
The journal welcomes submissions related to issues about new construction, renovation, maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of civil engineering projects that include, but are not limited to:
- Construction materials innovation focusing carbon emission reduction
- Life cycle analysis of civil engineering
- Green construction design and implementation
- Structural design for climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Interactions between buildings and environment
- Methods for quantifying carbon emissions in the construction industry
- Building information modelling (BIM) in green construction
- Construction engineering automation and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Clean energy utilization and multi-energy coupling for buildings
- Deconstruction and reuse
- Waste disposal and recycling
- Construction robots and systems
- Construction big data and machine learning
- Integrated building services systems for built environment
- Sustainability evaluation on pavements and transportation infrastructures
- Carbon capture and storage technologies
- Carbon footprint and low carbon policy in buildings
- Construction on other planetary objects, such as the moon and Mars