Special Issue Information

The building sector is accelerating its transition toward low-carbon, high-performance, and intelligent solutions in response to climate targets, resource constraints, and increasing expectations for resilient built environments. Concrete structures remain indispensable to buildings and infrastructure, yet their embodied carbon, material consumption, and long-term durability under complex service conditions continue to pose major challenges. Recent progress in low-carbon cementitious binders, recycled and secondary resources, and CO₂ utilization via carbonation related technologies has opened new pathways to reduce environmental impacts while maintaining or enhancing structural performance. In parallel, advances in intelligent construction, digital tools, and AI-enabled analysis and monitoring are reshaping how concrete structures are designed, built, and managed, enabling more efficient construction and data driven decision making across the lifecycle. However, translating these innovations into scalable practice requires integrated research that links material design, structural behavior, construction technologies, and lifecycle assessment, supported by rigorous characterization, modeling, and validation. This Special Issue (SI) aims to provide an international forum for cutting-edge research on advanced concrete structures and sustainable construction, emphasizing innovative materials, performance-based design, intelligent sensing and monitoring, digital/AI-assisted methods, and lifecycle oriented optimization to improve efficiency, resilience, and environmental compatibility.

Keywords of the Special Issue:
• Advanced concrete materials and composites
• Low-carbon cementitious binders and supplementary cementitious materials
• CO₂ utilization and carbonation-based technologies for cement and concrete
• Recycled and secondary materials for concrete and construction
• Industrial waste and by-product materials in cement-based systems
• Performance-based structural design, analysis, and resilience of concrete structures
• Structural health monitoring and intelligent sensing of concrete structures
• AI-enabled solutions in concrete engineering and construction management
• Digital tools for design and construction
• Efficient and low-waste construction technologies
• Life cycle assessment, carbon accounting, and lifecycle optimization
• Multi-physics characterization, durability, and coupled behavior modeling

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