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 Energy demand and management
• Building maintenance
• Building materials
• Building pathology
• Building performance
• Building retrofitting and 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.
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.
Editorial board
Editors-in-Chief
- J. de Brito PhD
University of Lisbon Higher Technical Institute, Lisboa, Portugal - J. M. LaFave Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States - R. Yao Ph.D.
University of Reading, Reading, UK; Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Associate Editor
- Q. Wei
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - M. Shin PhD, PE
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of - Paulina Faria PhD
New University of Lisbon Faculty of Science and Technology, Caparica, Portugal - C. Du PhD
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China - V. Costanzo PhD
University of Catania, Catania, Italy - C. Thomas PhD
University of Cantabria, Laboratory of Materials Science and Engineering, Santander, Spain
Editorial Board Members
- G. Baird
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand - L. A. Bisby
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - G. Cao
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway - V. Corinaldesi
Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy - B. Daniotti
Polytechnic of Milan, Milano, Italy - T. Day
Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland - L. Di Sarno
University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy - E. A. Essah
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom - M.C. Forde
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - G. Habert
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland - P. Heiselberg
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark - J. Ingham
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - K. Jones
Anglia Ruskin University Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Chelmsford, United Kingdom - H.M. Kipen
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States - R. Kosonen
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland - A. Lacasse PhD, P.Eng.
National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - B. Li
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China - X. Li PhD
Tsinghua University Department of Building Science and Technology, Beijing, China - M. Liu
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China - P.B. Lourenço
University of Minho Department of Civil Engineering, Guimaraes, Portugal - A. Memari
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States - J. Mohelnikova
Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic - S. Natarajan PhD
University of Bath Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Bath, England, United Kingdom - A. C. Oliveira
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal - J. Restrepo
University of California San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, San Diego, California, United States - J.P. Rodrigues
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal - C. A. Short
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom - R. Siddique Ph.D. (BITS), Post-doc (UWM-USA), M.ASCE
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India - K. Steemers
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom - A. Tadeu
Institute for Research and Technological Development in Construction Energy Environment and Sustainability, Coimbra, Portugal - V. W. Y. Tam
Western Sydney University, School of Built Environment, Kingswood, Australia - L. Villegas
University of Cantabria Department of Structural and Mechanical Engineering, Santander, Spain - J. Xiao
Tongji University, Shanghai, China - H. Yoshino
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan