Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional, Non-conventional and Bio-Based Construction Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The development of construction projects requires an effective description of improvement strategies to enhance the building performance over the entire life cycle, particularly in terms of environmental impact evaluation and sustainability. Construction materials play a major role in integrating different domain models, such as indoor environmental quality, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thermal comfort, pollution, and energy efficiency, and protecting the built environment. Hence, it is time to evaluate the energy performance, environmental impacts, and sustainability of conventional, non-conventional, and bio-based materials in buildings over their entire lifespan as an important step to recognizing their carbon footprint and all associated potentials related to the life cycle impact categories. This Special Issue aims to offer a prominent platform for sharing novel findings, ideas, opinions, and critical revisions of consolidated concepts in the field of environmental life cycle assessment of conventional, non-conventional, and bio-based materials in the construction sector. Thus, it aims to synthesize diverse research fragments on the environmental impact evaluation of construction materials used in buildings nowadays and compile theoretical and empirical analysis toward more sustainable and comfortable use of buildings. Hence, we encourage submissions from researchers who study diverse theoretical perspectives, perform multiple levels of analysis, and adopt several empirical approaches based on qualitative and quantitative experiments.

In this Special Issue, we particularly welcome the submission of scientific contributions in the areas of natural sciences, engineering, and technological applications including (but not limited to) conventional, non-conventional, and bio-based materials and their environmental sustainability and carbon footprint, as well as life cycle impact assessment, pollution assessment, and energy performance design in buildings. 

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Assed Naked Haddad
Dr. Mohammad Najjar
Dr. Mayara Amario
Guest Editors

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• biobased products
• climate change
• circular economy
• sustainability
• environmental impacts
• energy performance
• carbon footprint