1、该刊只有国际刊号。

2、投稿方式：在线投稿。

3、官网网址（主办单位微信公众信息）：

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ebes-sustainable-building

https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/ebes-sustainable-building/

4、投稿系统：

https://www.editorialmanager.com/ebesb/default2.aspx

5、出刊日期：季刊，逢季末月出版。

6、承办单位微信公众号：哈尔滨工业大学建筑与设计学院

2026年5月6日星期三

Guide for authors

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About the journal

Aims and scope

EBES

Sustainable Building is an international academic journal focused on

sustainable development. It publishes original research and review

articles covering the entire lifecycle of buildings, including design,

construction, operation, renovation, and demolition. The journal aims to

introduce new sustainable architectural concepts, research findings,

proven methods, tools, and practices that use intelligent approaches to

improve energy and material efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and

ensure the health and comfort of occupants. Additionally, the journal

serves as an interdisciplinary forum to explore the application of green

materials and high-performance equipment in buildings.

This journal contains four sections:

Section A（Building energy saving）

- Passive Building Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications of passive building design.

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Energy-efficient Building Operations: Methods, technologies, tools, and

practical applications for energy-efficient building operations.

- Renewable Energy Utilization: Methods, technologies, and practical applications for integrating renewable energy in buildings.

Section B（Green Building Materials）

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Recycled Materials in Construction: Methods, technologies, and

practical applications for the use of recycled materials in buildings.

- Environmental Impact Assessment of Building Materials: Methods and integration with architectural design.

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High-performance Building Materials: Methods and practical applications

for the use of high-performance materials in buildings.

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Photovoltaic and Photothermal Materials: Methods and practical

applications for the integration of photovoltaic and photothermal

materials in buildings.

Section C（Intelligent Design）

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Digital Twins: Methods,

technologies, tools, and practical applications for BIM and digital

twins.

- Computational Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for computational design.

- AI-assisted Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for AI participation in design.

- Human-Centric and Adaptive Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for user-centered design.

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IoT Data Integration in Building and Systems Design: Methods,

technologies, tools, and practical applications for integrating IoT

data.

- Interactive Building Design: Methods and practical applications for interactive building design.

Section D（Building Carbon Footprint）

- Carbon Footprint Assessment: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for carbon footprint evaluation.

- Low-carbon Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for low-carbon architectural design.

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Carbon Management in Construction and Operation Phases: Methods,

technologies, tools, and practical applications for managing carbon

emissions during construction and building operation.

Peer review

This

journal follows a double anonymized review process. Your submission

will initially be assessed by our editors to determine suitability for

publication in this journal. If your submission is deemed suitable, it

will typically be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for an independent

expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether

your article is accepted or rejected will be taken by our editors. This

decision is final.

Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which:

they have written themselves.

have been written by family members or colleagues.

relate to products or services in which they have an interest.

Any

such submissions will be subject to the journal's usual procedures and

peer review will be handled independently of the editor involved and

their research group.

All

manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial office. Any papers which fail

to meet the basic standards of the journal will be desk-rejected for

reasons like out of scope, ethical conflicts, high similarities, lack of

originality, flaws in research design or methods, etc. The editorial

office will reassign selected papers to the Editor-in-chief.

The

Editor-in-chief will invite multiple reviewers to review the paper or

assign an editorial board member to invite reviewers to review this

paper.

After

at least two reviewers give their reviews and comments, the

Editor-in-chief (or the assigned Editor) provides feedback to the

authors, based on reviewer comments and his own review comments.

When

the author submits the revised manuscript, the assigned editor and

Editor-in-chief will collaborate to make a final decision.

For

submissions from the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Guest

Editor(s), other journal Board members, and authors who have conflicts

of interest with them, we ensure that the paper is handled

confidentially by a different team member.

For

submissions to Special Issues; if there are conflicts of interest

between the Guest Editor(s) and authors, the submissions will be handled

by another Editor from the Editorial Board who will manage the peer

review process and make the decision whether to accept or reject the

paper after peer review.

Read more about peer review.

KeAi Guide for authors: Open Access

This

is an open access journal: all articles will be immediately and

permanently free for everyone to read and download. To provide open

access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an article

publishing charge APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their

behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. Permitted third

party (re)use is defined by the following Creative Commons user

licenses.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

Allows

users to: distribute and copy the article; create extracts, abstracts,

and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from

an article (such as a translation); include in a collective work (such

as an anthology); and text or data mine the article. These uses are

permitted even for commercial purposes, provided the user: gives

appropriate credit to the author(s) (with a link to the formal

publication through the relevant DOI); includes a link to the license;

indicates if changes were made; and does not represent the author(s) as

endorsing the adaptation of the article or modify the article in such a

way as to damage the authors' honor or reputation.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

Allows

users to: distribute and copy the article; and include in a collective

work (such as an anthology). These uses are permitted only for

non-commercial purposes, and provided the user: gives appropriate credit

to the author(s) (with a link to the formal publication through the

relevant DOI); provides a link to the license; and does not alter or

modify the article.

If

you need to comply with your funding body policy you can apply for a CC

BY license after your manuscript is accepted for publication.

Article Publishing Charge (APC)

As

an open access journal with no subscription charges, a fee (Article

Publishing Charge, APC) is payable by the authors, or their institution

or funders, to cover the costs associated with publication. This ensures

your article will be immediately and permanently free to access by

everyone.

Ethics and policies

Ethics in publishing

Authors must follow ethical guidelines stated in Elsevier's Publishing Ethics Policy.

Submission declaration

When authors submit an article to a journal it is implied that:

the

work described has not been published previously except in the form of a

preprint, an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis. See our

policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication.

the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

the

article’s publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or

explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried

out.

if

accepted, the article will not be published elsewhere in the same form,

in English or in any other language, including electronically without

the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Submissions

to KeAi journals are automatically screened using iThenticate's

CrossCheck within the editorial system to detect plagiarism issues

including instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted

manuscripts. Details can be found here. High similarity papers will be

desk rejected.

ORCiD ID: Our journal supports the use of ORCiD ID. Authors are encouraged to provide ORCiD ID at submission.

Authorship

All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:

The conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data

Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

Final approval of the version to be submitted.

All

authors are accountable for all aspects of the work, to ensure that

questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work

are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Authors

should appoint a single corresponding author to communicate with the

journal during the editorial process. This individual submits the

manuscript and all required documentation to the journal, and serves as

the primary contact between the journal and the co-authors. Only the

corresponding author’s affiliation will be used to determine eligibility

for a publishing agreement, and possible discounts related to it.

Affiliations of other co-authors are not relevant for eligibility.

Changes to authorship

The

editors of this journal generally will not consider changes to

authorship once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that

authors carefully consider the authorship list and order of authors and

provide a definitive author list at submission.

The policy of this journal around authorship changes:

All

authors must be listed in the manuscript and their details entered into

the submission system. Changes can only be made prior to acceptance,

and only if approved by the journal editor. This includes additions,

deletion, or rearrangement of author names.

Requests

to change authorship must be made by the corresponding author using the

Authorship Change Request form. The corresponding author must provide

the reason for the request to the journal editor with written

confirmation from all authors, including any authors being added or

removed, that they agree with the changes. Requests which do not comply

with the instructions outlined in the form will not be considered.

This

journal does not allow authorship changes after acceptance. This

includes additions, deletions, or the rearrangement of author names,

including changes to the corresponding author.

The review process may be paused while a change in authorship request is being considered.

Change

requests made by the authors without the Authorship Change Request form

or editor approval may result in the rejection of the manuscript, or

retraction if the article has already been published.

Declaration of competing interests

All

authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with

other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or

bias their work. Examples of potential competing interests include:

Employment

Consultancies

Stock ownership

Honoraria

Paid expert testimony

Patent applications or registrations

Grants or any other funding

Affiliation with the journal as an Editor or Advisory Board Member

The declarations tool should always be completed.

Authors

with a journal affiliation to declare should enter the following text

under “Other Activities” within the declarations tool and should inform

the journal and publisher prior to completing the submission process:

Given their role as [insert journal role title], [insert your name] had

no involvement in the peer-review of this article and has no access to

information regarding its peer-review. Full responsibility for the

editorial process for this article was delegated to another journal

editor.

Authors with no competing interests to declare should select the option "I have nothing to declare".

The

resulting Word document containing your declaration should be uploaded

at the "attach/upload files" step in the submission process. It is

important that the Word document is saved in the .doc/.docx file format.

Author signatures are not required.

For

transparency, for manuscripts submitted after January 1, 2026, all

authors are requested to also disclose any potential conflict of

interest including any employment, funding or other relationships with

other people or organizations within three years of beginning the

submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to

influence, their work. See also

https://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.

Funding sources

Authors

must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for

the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role

of sponsors, if any, should be declared in relation to the study design,

collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report

and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources

had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission.

List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements:

Funding:

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant

numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle,

WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant

number aaaa].

It

is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or

type of grants, scholarships and awards. When funding is from a block

grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other

research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization

that provided the funding.

If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence:

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing

Authors

are encouraged to declare the use of generative AI in scientific

writing upon submission of the paper. The following guidance refers only

to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyse and

draw insights from data as part of the research process:

Generative

AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used in the writing

process to improve the readability and language of the manuscript.

The

technology must be applied with human oversight and control and authors

should carefully review and edit the result, as AI can generate

authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or

biased. Authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the

contents of the work.

Authors

must not list or cite AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or

co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities

and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans.

The

use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing

can be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when

the paper is first submitted. The statement will appear in the

published work and should be placed in a new section before the

references list. An example:

Title of new section: Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.

Statement:

During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME TOOL /

SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the

author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full

responsibility for the content of the published article.

The

declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as tools

used to check grammar, spelling and references. If you have nothing to

disclose, you do not need to add a statement.

We advise you to read our policy for authors on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies for Elsevier.

Please

note: to protect authors’ rights and the confidentiality of their

research, this journal does not currently allow the use of Generative AI

or AI-assisted technologies such as ChatGPT or similar services by

reviewers or editors in the peer review and manuscript evaluation

process. We are actively evaluating compliant AI tools and may revise

this policy in the future.

Preprint sharing

Authors

may share preprints in line with Elsevier's article sharing policy.

Sharing preprints, such as on a preprint server, will not count as prior

publication.

We advise you to read our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication.

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