Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 27 Jul 2026

Development Characteristics and Prediction Model of the Water-Conducting Fractured Zone in Typical Mining-Induced Structural Overburden in the Mountainous Areas of Southwestern China

in Geotechnical Engineering

Jun Li
Jiawei Wan
Xiang Li
Xingxing Du
Haoyuan Gao
Bin Li

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Published on 27 Jul 2026

Stress testing eight water tank metrics under the different energy zones in South Africa to evaluate how future climatic variations may affect rainwater harvesting

in Sustainable Design and Construction

Emmanuel Kabundu
Sijekula Mbanga
Emma Ayesu-Koranteng
Noluthando Masiza

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1743368

481 views

Methods

Accepted on 24 Jul 2026

A Time-and Site-Specific Questionnaire-Based Method for Estimating Outdoor Daylight Exposure in Built Environment Field Studies

in Indoor Environment

Gizem Izmir Tunahan
Hector Altamirano

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 24 Jul 2026

A GIS-Based Framework for Identifying Isolated Communities and Population-Level Accessibility Assessment Under Compound Multi-Hazard Conditions

in Earthquake Engineering

Chonnapat Opanasopit
Joseph Louis

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Published on 24 Jul 2026

Calculation of effective constitutive stiffness matrices for a geocell layer and analysis of reinforcement mechanisms in geocell-reinforced embankments

in Geotechnical Engineering

Changjun Yin
Ahmed Adam Khalifa Gowi
Yufan Luo
Mingzhe Zhai
Junjia Shi
Zhiyong Sun

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1841457

565 views

Review

Published on 24 Jul 2026

Development and capabilities of the universal panel tester for large-scale testing and constitutive characterization

in Construction Materials

Yousef Abu Amneh
Abdulrahman Salah
Dimitrios Kalliontzis
Tito Gomez

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1862913

604 views

Original Research

Published on 24 Jul 2026

Decoupling between heat loss indicators and heating demand in a high-mass dwelling: implications for interpreting building performance

in Sustainable Design and Construction

Gabriel Harvey
Szende Szentesi-Nejur

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1881793

255 views

Review

Published on 24 Jul 2026

Modeling thermal behavior of buried subsea power cables: a review of deterministic, data-driven, and hybrid approaches

in Geotechnical Engineering

Shahbaz Ahmad
Zarghaam Haider Rizvi
Frank Wuttke

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1836114

785 views

Review

Accepted on 23 Jul 2026

From Incremental Expansion to Operational Governance in China: An Integrative Review of Operation Pre-positioning in Urban Regeneration

in Urban Science

Haozun Sun
Nan Zhang
Yixin Jiang
Yifan Wang

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 23 Jul 2026

Environmental Quality and Housing Market Outcomes: Evidence from Italian Cities using Econometric and Machine Learning Approaches

in Sustainable Design and Construction

Irina Di Ruocco

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Published on 23 Jul 2026

Experimental investigation on heat transfer analysis of open loop shallow geothermal combined thermally activated building structure in a semi-arid region

in Indoor Environment

Balaji Thiyagarajan
Balaji Kumar

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1852374

522 views

Original Research

Published on 23 Jul 2026

An efficient deep learning framework for text detection and recognition in engineering drawings

in Sustainable Design and Construction

Dakan Ying
Lyu Guanghua
Zhengxu He
Rija Hasan
Syed Hadi Hussain Shah

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1839808

757 views

Original Research

Accepted on 22 Jul 2026

Investigation of Quality-of-Life Indicators across Jeddah City Neighborhoods: Residents' Experience and Satisfaction

in Urban Science

Roba Zakkariah Shaheen
Mohamed Maatouk
Rawan Qurban

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 22 Jul 2026

Port Proximities: Severance and Re-linking in UAE Urban Heritage

in Urban Science

Hiba Farhat
AYMAN KASSEM

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 22 Jul 2026

Application of a CNN-LSTM-PINN Model for Predicting the Deviatoric Stress of Clayey Soil under Wetting-Drying Cycles

in Geotechnical Engineering

Xianye Zheng
Shengfa Liang
Yue Weng
Peng Cui
Jiaming Zhao

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 22 Jul 2026

Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure: The First Ecuadorian Pavement Damage Dataset and an Assessment of Domain Transfer Across International Road Networks

in Transportation and Transit Systems

Luis Leonardo
Carlos Damian Pinto
Enma Katherine Gamboa

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Published on 22 Jul 2026

A hybrid CNN-TCN-CatBoost framework for accurate PM2.5 forecasting across heterogeneous urban environments

in Urban Science

Mohammed Faizan N
Sujatha V

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1859711

371 views

Editorial

Published on 22 Jul 2026

Editorial: Digital transformation in construction: integrating metaverse, digital twin, and BIM

in Earthquake Engineering

Izuru Takewaki
Zheng Lu
Salman Azhar
Vagelis Plevris
Zhen Chen
Sakdirat Kaewunruen
Umberto Berardi

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1905914

791 views

Original Research

Published on 22 Jul 2026

Cultural semiotic legibility in temple-centered urban systems

in Urban Science

Porchelvi Selvaraj
Sharmila Jagadisan

Frontiers in Built Environment

doi 10.3389/fbuil.2026.1873684

523 views

Original Research

Accepted on 21 Jul 2026

Assessing Timber Use and Material Hybridity in Multi-storey Timber Buildings: Analysis from Building to Connection Level

in Sustainable Design and Construction

Hana Svatoš-Ražnjević
Achim Menges

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 21 Jul 2026

Participatory Co-Design for Social Sustainability and Emotional well-being in Indian Affordable Housing

in Sustainable Design and Construction

Selva Priyadharshan B
Madhumathi Anbu

Frontiers in Built Environment

102 views

Original Research

Accepted on 21 Jul 2026

Evaluating the Cultural Landscape Imagery of Mount Qingcheng, China: Public Perception of Zhang Daqian's Heritage in the Built Environment

in Urban Science

Xiaoyi Yang
Watsida Boonyanmethaporn
Chunlin Wan

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 21 Jul 2026

Study on the damage evolution of red-bed soft rock in foundation pits under the coupled influence of drying-wetting cycles and cyclic disturbance

in Geotechnical Engineering

Ni Liao
Yanru Zhang

Frontiers in Built Environment

Original Research

Accepted on 20 Jul 2026

Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Infrastructure Using Thermoelectric Cement-Based Materials

in Construction Materials

Siva Prasad

Frontiers in Built Environment

102 views

2,264 articles

articles

Development Characteristics and Prediction Model of the Water-Conducting Fractured Zone in Typical Mining-Induced Structural Overburden in the Mountainous Areas of Southwestern China

Stress testing eight water tank metrics under the different energy zones in South Africa to evaluate how future climatic variations may affect rainwater harvesting

A Time-and Site-Specific Questionnaire-Based Method for Estimating Outdoor Daylight Exposure in Built Environment Field Studies

A GIS-Based Framework for Identifying Isolated Communities and Population-Level Accessibility Assessment Under Compound Multi-Hazard Conditions

Calculation of effective constitutive stiffness matrices for a geocell layer and analysis of reinforcement mechanisms in geocell-reinforced embankments

Development and capabilities of the universal panel tester for large-scale testing and constitutive characterization

Decoupling between heat loss indicators and heating demand in a high-mass dwelling: implications for interpreting building performance

Modeling thermal behavior of buried subsea power cables: a review of deterministic, data-driven, and hybrid approaches

From Incremental Expansion to Operational Governance in China: An Integrative Review of Operation Pre-positioning in Urban Regeneration

Environmental Quality and Housing Market Outcomes: Evidence from Italian Cities using Econometric and Machine Learning Approaches

Experimental investigation on heat transfer analysis of open loop shallow geothermal combined thermally activated building structure in a semi-arid region

An efficient deep learning framework for text detection and recognition in engineering drawings

Investigation of Quality-of-Life Indicators across Jeddah City Neighborhoods: Residents' Experience and Satisfaction

Port Proximities: Severance and Re-linking in UAE Urban Heritage

Application of a CNN-LSTM-PINN Model for Predicting the Deviatoric Stress of Clayey Soil under Wetting-Drying Cycles

Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure: The First Ecuadorian Pavement Damage Dataset and an Assessment of Domain Transfer Across International Road Networks

A hybrid CNN-TCN-CatBoost framework for accurate PM2.5 forecasting across heterogeneous urban environments

Editorial: Digital transformation in construction: integrating metaverse, digital twin, and BIM

Cultural semiotic legibility in temple-centered urban systems

Assessing Timber Use and Material Hybridity in Multi-storey Timber Buildings: Analysis from Building to Connection Level

Participatory Co-Design for Social Sustainability and Emotional well-being in Indian Affordable Housing

Evaluating the Cultural Landscape Imagery of Mount Qingcheng, China: Public Perception of Zhang Daqian's Heritage in the Built Environment

Study on the damage evolution of red-bed soft rock in foundation pits under the coupled influence of drying-wetting cycles and cyclic disturbance

Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Infrastructure Using Thermoelectric Cement-Based Materials