Journals in Built environment

1-10 of 14 results in All results

HBRC Journal

ISSN: 1687-4048

As of 1 January 2019 the journal has been transferred to the new Publisher, Taylor and Francis.HBRC Journal covers the following areas: 1. Engineering Materials 2. Material Science 3. Architecture, Housing and Urban Development 4. Environmental Engineering and Building Physics 5. Structural Engineering 6. Geotechnical Engineering 7. Construction Engineering and Management 8. Nanotechnology

Frontiers of Architectural Research

ISSN: 2095-2635
Impact factor: 3.5

Frontiers of Architectural Research is an international journal that publishes original research papers, review articles, and case studies to promote rapid communication and exchange among scholars, architects, and engineers. This journal introduces and reviews significant and pioneering achievements in the field of architecture research. Subject areas include the primary branches of architecture, such as architectural design and theory, architectural science and technology, urban science, landscaping architecture, and architectural history and heritage conservation. The journal encourages studies based on a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology. All published papers reflect original research works and basic theories, models, computing, and design in architecture. High-quality papers addressing the social aspects of architecture are also welcome. This journal is strictly peer-reviewed and accepts only original manuscripts submitted in English.

Sustainable Cities and Society

ISSN: 2210-6707
5 Year impact factor: 10.6
Impact factor: 11.7

Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. We encourage submission of cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in the areas of, 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure; We support a wide range of methodological and technical approaches including experimental, observational, monitoring and management studies and policy analysis. In addition to fundamental and applied papers, review articles on important developments will be considered. Please follow and tag the journal on one of our Social media accounts if you are sharing a link to your paper on ScienceDirect: Twitter (@SustainableCit8); LinkedIn and WeChat: SCSwechat2022.

Journal of Building Engineering

ISSN: 2352-7102
5 Year impact factor: 6.5
Impact factor: 6.4

The Journal of Building Engineering (JOBE) is an interdisciplinary journal that covers all aspects of science and technology concerned with the whole life cycle of the built environment; from the design phase through to construction, operation, performance, maintenance and its deterioration. JOBE only publishes papers where significant scientific novelty is clearly demonstrated. The journal will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics: • Building maintenance • Building materials • Building pathology • Building retrofitting for energy efficiency • Climate responsive architectural design • Coatings and claddings • Computer aided-design and simulation • Construction technology and engineering • Energy demand and management • Energy efficiency (building envelope and system) • Life cycle Assessment • Environmental engineering design • Facade and envelope engineering • Facilities management and operation • Fire safety engineering • Health and wellbeing • HVAC systems • Indoor Environmental quality (acoustic, visual, thermal, moisture, air quality) • Inspection and diagnosis • Intelligent buildings (operation and control) • Renewable energy applications (solar, daylight, wind) • Retrofit and refurbishment of existing buildings • Service life prediction • Strengthening and rehabilitation • Structural analysis • Structural assessment • Structural design • Structural health monitoring • Structural testing • Sustainable design and operation • Sustainable construction • Whole life cost Technical notes on projects, codes and standards are also welcomed. Manuscripts about materials, structures, energy and other applications to non-building infrastructure (roads, bridges, tunnels, etc.) are unfortunately outside the scope of this journal. Please do not resubmit a rejected manuscript (unless the Editors have invited you to resubmit) as it will not be considered and will be rejected without review. Please do not contact the Editors for a status check of your manuscript as they handle a large number of submissions and unfortunately cannot answer all status requests. Please rather use the Track your submission option for this purpose. If your paper has been sent out for review, the Editors have to wait for the invited reviewers to agree to review the paper. Once the reviewers have kindly agreed to review the paper, they are requested to deliver their reviews within 21 days, however delays do occur unfortunately and this is not always possible. The Editors are aware of delayed manuscripts and reminders are sent to the reviewers of delayed papers to ask them to please upload their reviews at their earliest convenience. Once the Editors receive the required number of reviews they are then able to swiftly make their decision on a manuscript. Authors can rest assured that Editors are using all their resources to make the revision and publication process as swift as possible. Author duties: Acceptance of a manuscript for publication in the journal carries with it an understanding that the author, when requested, will fulfill an obligation to contribute their expertise to the review of others' manuscripts. Authors are also requested to suggest 3 independent referees together with their institutional email addresses. The named possible referees must not be from their own institution and some should be from different countries.

Heliyon

ISSN: 2405-8440
5 Year impact factor: 4.1
Impact factor: 4

Heliyon is an all-science, open access journal that is part of the Cell Press family. Any paper reporting scientifically accurate and valuable research, which adheres to accepted ethical and scientific publishing standards, will be considered for publication. As such, the journal also publishes manuscripts reporting negative/null results, incremental advances, and replication studies. Dedicated section editors, associate editors, and our in-house team handle your manuscript and manage the publication process end to end, giving your research the editorial support it deserves. If it's important to you, it's important to us. Submit your paper today.

Water Research X

ISSN: 2589-9147
5 Year impact factor: 8.3
Impact factor: 7.5

In association with the International Water Association Water Research X is a Gold Open Access sister journal of Water Research, featuring concise, letter-style, leading-edge research papers, visionary perspectives and editorials, and mini-reviews of emerging topics. The Journal welcomes contributions on all aspects of the science and technology of the anthropogenic water cycle, water quality, and its management worldwide. A broad outline of the journal's scope includes: • Treatment processes for water and wastewaters (municipal, agricultural, industrial, and on-site treatment), including resource recovery and residuals management; • Urban hydrology including sewer systems, storm water management, and green infrastructure; • Drinking water treatment and distribution; • Potable and non-potable water reuse; • Sanitation, public health, and risk assessment; • Anaerobic digestion, solid and hazardous waste management, including source characterization and the effects and control of leachates and gaseous emissions; • Contaminants (chemical, microbial, anthropogenic particles such as nanoparticles or microplastics) and related water quality sensing, monitoring, fate, and assessment; • Anthropogenic impacts on inland, tidal, coastal and urban waters, focusing on surface and ground waters, and point and non-point sources of pollution; • Environmental restoration, linked to surface water, groundwater and groundwater remediation; • Analysis of the interfaces between sediments and water, and between water and atmosphere, focusing specifically on anthropogenic impacts; • Mathematical modelling, systems analysis, machine learning, and beneficial use of big data related to the anthropogenic water cycle; • Socio-economic, policy, and regulations studies. Water Research X is an interdisciplinary journal with an applied edge. This means that papers that go into too many details of one of the supporting disciplines (such as chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, material sciences, etc.) without making a good link with water researching general may be rejected up-front. Water Research X has changed its paper structures, please find details in Guide for Authors (with a link to the page). EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Professor Zhiguo Yuan, The University of Queensland Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, Brisbane, Australia

Energy and Built Environment

ISSN: 2666-1233

Energy and Built Environment (EBE) is an international journal that disseminates original research articles on energy harvesting and utilization in the built environment. The aim is to present new research results that are focused on promoting energy efficiency, clean energy utilization, and environment quality in the built environment, which constitutes buildings and transportation. We encourage submissions in the following areas Energy conservation and balances in built environment Energy storage technologies and their applications to the built environment The application and integration of renewable energy technologies in built environment The evaluation and control of indoor environment quality (acoustic, visual, thermal and air quality) The impact of climate change on built environment performance Modelling and prediction technologies for built environment

Developments in the Built Environment

ISSN: 2666-1659
5 Year impact factor: 8.2
Impact factor: 8.2

Developments in the Built Environment (DIBE) is a new peer-reviewed gold open access (OA) journal whereby upon acceptance all articles are permanently and freely available. DIBE publishes original papers and short communications resulting from research in civil engineering and the built environment. This journal covers all topics related to construction materials and building sustainability, leading to a holistic approach that will benefit the community. DIBE will strive to offer you the fastest possible speed of publication, without compromising on the quality of our peer-review process. 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; System safety and reliability. Developments in the Built Environment welcomes the following types of papers: Full research papers; Review papers; Short communications: suitable for providing fast dissemination of important new outcomes and technical discussion in the field of built environment. They 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.

Cement

ISSN: 2666-5492

Overview and Aim: Cement is a vital component of concrete, the most used human-made material on the planet. Roughly half of all products manufactured every year are comprised of cementitious materials. It is crucial and exciting to have an open access journal detailing the most innovative findings including translational research regarding cementitious binders. The aim of CEMENT is to broadly disseminate innovative research related to cementitious binders, concrete and composites incorporating these binders (e.g. reinforced concrete) in an open access format. CEMENT is a spinoff partner of Cement and Concrete Research. Scope: The journal will focus on thematic areas related to cement and the influence of the binder characteristics on cement-based composites including sustainability, durability, and innovative solutions, with an emphasis on increasing understanding and rapid translation of high-impact research. Sustainability Novel cementitious materials, blended cements and individual and blended supplementary cementitious materials that present quantifiable and achievable solutions The development and use of cementitious materials to meet the needs of society both from an economical and a resource perspective (e.g. CO2 footprint, embodied energy, energy usage, water demand) Research which addresses social justice and the role of cementitious materials in this aspect of sustainability, including broadening societal access to reliable and modern infrastructure Durability Service-life prediction tools, including accelerated test methods and model validations on the grounds of experimental work and/or case studies for the long-term performance of cementitious materials, in particular reinforced concrete Enhanced understanding of mechanisms behind premature deterioration and/or innovative solutions to substantially reduce or eliminate particular forms of deterioration. Investigations into combined forms of chemical, electrochemical or physical attack Innovative Solutions Computational approaches that bring greater understanding to cementitious materials and facilitate their design Novel applications and solutions using cementitious materials to solve grand challenges in science and engineering Solutions at the interface of fields where cementitious materials are keys to advancement such as socio-economic improvements, post-crisis transition and countries with developing economies. Types of Papers CEMENT Considers CEMENT accepts original research manuscripts, technical notes and review articles. Special issues related to hot topics and critical needs within cement and cement-based materials are also encouraged and should be coordinated with the Editor-in-Chief. Papers related solely to structural aspects or mechanics of concrete or cement-based materials are not within the scope of CEMENT; there must be a significant focus on improvements to or understanding of the cementitious component.

Smart Energy

ISSN: 2666-9552

A companion journal to ENERGY, the international journal Smart Energy is an international, multi-disciplinary journal with a focus on smart energy systems design, analysis, planning and modelling. The journal aims to be a leading platform and an authoritative source of information related to the green transformation of energy supply and demand systems into future smart renewable energy and sustainable solutions. The journal covers technical and energy engineering research of technologies and system designs with a focus on energy systems. Research is welcome on the role of smart energy technologies and energy infrastructures into an energy systems context such as energy conversion, energy efficiency, energy storage, electrification, power-to-heat, power-to-gas, power-to-liquids, electrofuels, district heating, district cooling and renewable energy. The journal aims at further developing the cross-sectorial approach in smart energy systems exploiting synergies between energy efficiency and use of different energy storages also considering smart electricity grids, smart thermal grids as well as smart gas grids. Research related to such technologies in renewable energy systems focusing on system re-design, transitions, renewable energy integration, analysis, energy planning, management, financing, market designs, public regulation, economics, modelling, as well as use of smart meters, data, AI and digitalization is welcome provided such topics are within the context of the broader multi-disciplinary scope of Smart Energy. We thank Storywise for providing original design of the cover image. This journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy)