ABC2: Journal of Architecture, Building, Construction, and Cities

The built environment is encountering significant challenges, from rapid urbanisation and climate change to environmental depletion and socioeconomic inequality. These challenges demand knowledge development and research that cross the boundaries of architecture, building design and practices, construction technologies, and urban studies.

ABC2 is an open-access journal (ISSN 2978-6282 - Online) that engages with the full spectrum of built environment-related disciplines and professions, including Architecture, Building, Construction, and Cities.

ABC2 aims to empower research for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) through promoting dialogue among academics, professionals, and policymakers, to address pressing and timely challenges towards creating truly sustainable built environments. Focusing on cutting-edge research, advanced technology, and transformative strategies, ABC2 is a platform for meaningful research findings that defy present challenges and envision a better future.

ABC2 emerges from the combined editorial trajectories of the two eminent, highly acclaimed journals, Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research and SASBE: Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, building on their leadership and established strengths into advancing an integrative vision of the built environment. 

Co-Editors In Chief: 

  • Professor Ashraf M. Salama
    Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Head of the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    asalama@abc2.net
  • Professor Farzad Rahimian
    Professor of Digital Engineering and Manufacturing, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
    f.rahimian@abc2.net

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Where ABC2 Authors Come From? Global Research Across Countries and Institutions

2026-02-01

Across the four issues published between 2025 and 2026 over the past three months, ABC2: Journal of Architecture, Building, Construction, and Cities has brought together contributions from 76 unique authors affiliated with 39 institutions across 18 countries. The range of affiliations includes universities, research centres, and professional organisations, underscoring the journal’s role as an emerging international platform for scholarship in the built environment. The countries represented across these issues include Australia, Belgium, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong SAR (China), India, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Several authors have contributed to more than one issue, pointing to growing continuity and sustained engagement with the journal.

These figures reflect ABC2’s expanding global network and its commitment to fostering diverse, cross-regional perspectives on architecture, building science, construction, and urban research.

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Current Issue

Vol. 2026 No. 02
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The 2026-02 issue of ABC2: Journal of Architecture, Building, Construction, and Cities brings together interdisciplinary research addressing sustainability across material, technological, urban, and educational dimensions of the built environment. The contributions explore bioreceptive architectural design, digital construction and data-driven systems, circular performance assessment, neighbourhood-scale decision support, and the social value of urban green spaces. Overall, the articles highlight how sustainability is advanced through context-sensitive practices, integrative frameworks, and institutional capacity building.

Date Published: Forthcoming 2026-03-02

Published: 2026-03-02

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