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Guest editors: Bill Bordass, Paul Ruyssevelt & Fionn Stevenson Abstract submission closed on: 23 March 2026 noon (GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION What is the potential for BPE to support better outcomes? How can BPE become mainstreamed? As the built environment confronts accelerating climate change, rising energy demands, health crises and social inequality, the imperative to ensure new and upgraded…
Guest editors: Satu Huuhka, Kjartan Gudmundsson & Paul Jonker-Hoffrén Abstract submission closed on: 10 FEBRUARY 2026 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION What practices and policies are needed for the viable reuse of building components? Up- and downstream construction activities generate immense environmental burdens globally e.g. raw material mining, product manufacture, operational energy use,…
Guest Editors: Rachel Macrorie & Andrew Karvonen Abstract submission closed on 14 November 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION The provision of housing is often narrowly framed as a set of technological, skills and economic issues. This special issue aims to broaden the discussion by developing a critical social science perspective that investigates the validity of many claims made about modern…
Guest Editors: Simon Foxell and Ian Cooper Abstract submission closed on 09 June 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION How should built environment actors (individually and collectively) respond to the increasing risks resulting from the changes to the global and local climates? How can the sector improve its understanding of risk factors and potential responses? What obligations do…
Guest Editor: Paolo Tombesi (EPFL) Abstract submission closed on 24 MARCH 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION How can the complexity and challenges of physical territorial reconstruction (after disasters) across diverse disciplines, stakeholders and governance be organised and synthesised? Do current debates and practices on physical territorial reconstruction ( i.e. urban and rural built…
Guest editors: Nicola Antaki, Doina Petrescu & Vera Marin Abstract submission closed on 10 February 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION What are the roles and impacts that living labs play in increasing civic resilience and supporting ecological transition in different contexts and at different scales? This special issue examines the roles that living labs have in creating or enhancing…
Guest editor: Michael Donn (Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington) 28 October 2024 (noon GMT) Abstract submission closed on 11 November 2024 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION As codes and regulations become stricter, is simulation the right tool for compliance as well as sketching performance to assist design? Can building simulation address the competing demands and tensions that…
Guest editors: Daniel Godoy-Shimizu and Philip Steadman (University College London) Abstract submission closed on 28 October 2024 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION How might the building stock transition towards Net Zero? How big a change is achievable? At what cost? And what are the theoretical and practical factors that determine both the overall potential as well as the transition process?…
Guest Editors: Tina Fawcett (U of Oxford), Sarah Darby (U of Oxford), Marlyne Sahakian (U of Geneva) Abstract submission closed on 15 JANUARY 2024 DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION How can conditions be created for decent living standards for all without exceeding planetary limits, during an energy transition and beyond? This special issue will examine fundamental questions about what is necessary to live a…
Guest Editors: Anna Mavrogianni and Marcella Ucci (University College London) Abstract submission closed on 12 JULY 2023 DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION The aim of this special issue is enhance our understanding of the roles that indoor environments play in creating, exacerbating or ameliorating the underlying socioeconomic and health inequalities in the context of climate change. What are the optimum…
