About the Journal

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment is a CIB-encouraged journal that aims to inform research and industry practice on integrated approaches to developing smart and sustainable built environments

Submission information

Accepted manuscript types and word counts

  • Original Research Paper — up to 10000 words
  • Review Paper — up to 12000 words
  • Case Study — up to 7000 words
  • Technical Note — up to 4000 words
  • Commentaries — up to 1500 words
  • Conference Newsa/Events — up to 800 words
  • Book Review — up to 1500 words
  • Editorial — up to 2000 words
  • Viewpoint — up to 3000 words

Please see the article types and word counts section on the about this journal page for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.

Reference style

Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.

Keywords

Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper.

Peer review type

Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.

Open access options

This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.

Accepted languages

This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.

Accepted submission files

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.

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Calls for papers

Closes: 31st December 2026

Advances understanding of AI, digital twins, and cyber-physical systems for sustainable buildings, bridging technological capability with practical implementation through organizational and policy frameworks.

Guest editor(s): Dr. M. Reza Hosseini, Dr. Ania Khodabakhshian, Dr. Mazdak Nik-Bakht, Dr. Ruoyu Jin