Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation - Closed for submissions - Advances on Building Pathology and Rehabilitation
Guest Editors:
Dr. João Quesado Delgado, University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. Esequiel F. T. Mesquita, LAREB, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Submission Status: Closed
Description
Building pathology is the scientific study of the nature of building failure and its causes, processes, development and consequences. To provide an economic and effective remedy to building defects it is essential to properly identify the cause in order to address the problem. Rehabilitation is a strategic area that deals not only with historic buildings, but also with other buildings that have been in use for some time and need to be adapted to the demands of the times.
The construction industry is responsible for creating, adapting and improving the living environment of mankind. On the other hand, construction and buildings have significant environmental impacts as they consume more than 40% of total primary energy. The built environment is at the heart of global strategies and actions for a more sustainable future. To provide resilient solutions, simple optimisation of individual technologies will not suffice. Rather, thinking in the whole-system reveals and exploits connections between parts. Each system interacts with others at different scales, i.e., materials, components, buildings, cities; and domains such as, ecology, economics and social. Therefore, the sustainability of the built environment, construction industry and related activities is an urgent issue for all stakeholders to promote sustainable development. The coming years will be a challenge for practitioners and researchers who have the sustainability of the built environment and construction industry in mind.
This Topical Collection provides a collection of recent research works to contribute to the systematization and dissemination of knowledge related to strategies, diagnostic and design methodologies, appropriate application of existing regulations for rehabilitation, energy efficiency, adaptive rehabilitation, rehabilitation technologies and case study analysis. It includes a range of new developments in:
• Rehabilitation and energy efficiency
• Building pathologies (structural and hygrothermal)
• Building pathology versus durability
• Durability approach for historic and old buildings
• Methodologies for predicting service life
• Building performance simulation
• New approaches to green concrete applied to rehabilitation
• New façade solutions, etc.
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/41024/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type "TC - Advances on Building Pathology and Rehabilitation".
Please indicate in your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered for the Topical Collection on Advances on Building Pathology and Rehabilitation.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Topical Collection. 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. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.
Find out about the already published articles (this opens in a new tab) in this collection.