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Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities (SCSC) is an open-access journal at the forefront of interdisciplinary research, addressing urban challenges, and promoting sustainability through innovative smart technologies and green solutions.

Promotes knowledge heterogeneity and cross-disciplinary research collaborations.
Advances the development of low-carbon, resilient, and smart sustainable cities.
Ensures prompt publication of highest quality and innovative research.
Contributes to SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities.

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Shui-Long Shen PhD

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Smart Construction, Landscaping, and Sustainability

The convergence of smart construction, landscaping, and sustainability represents a transformative approach to urban development.

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Smart Mobility and Transformative Technologies for Sustainable Urban Futures

This special issue invites research contributions on the role of digital innovations and the convergence of technology, infrastructure and...

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Emergencies Management Systems in Smart Cities

Aims and Scope: The increasing complexity of urban environments necessitates advanced emergency management systems that integrate modern...

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A hybrid deep compression model for enhanced classification of high-dimensional image data
T. Srinivasarao
Yanda Nagamani
Ravi Teja Gedela
Research Open access 16 October 2026 Article: 23
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3D Reconstruction and Volumetric Modeling Techniques for Enhanced Computer Vision
Towards sustainable public transit: development of representative driving cycles for electric and CNG buses using naturalistic micro-trip data from Patna, India
Piyush Kumar Pandey
Hardik Arora
B. Anil Kumar
Case Study Open access 02 October 2026 Article: 21
Urban childcare infrastructure in Japan: evaluating satisfaction from the perspectives of parents and childcare workers in Matsudo City
Kieko Ohara
Ryota Nakao
Takuro Inohae
Research Open access 01 October 2026 Article: 22
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Smart Mobility and Transformative Technologies for Sustainable Urban Futures
Engineering-informed machine learning for bond-strength prediction, mechanism discovery, and reliability assessment of FRP-reinforced seawater sea-sand concrete
Sameh Fuqaha
Research Open access 29 September 2026 Article: 20
Thermal conductivity of bentonite-sand/fly ash composites for underground thermal infrastructure using neural network and ensemble tree-based machine learning approaches
Pawan Kishor Sah
Vishakha Bharti
Bhabani Shankar Das
Research Open access 07 September 2026 Article: 19

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Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2026
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CiteScore 2025: 8.9
SNAPP – A New Manuscript Submission System

Please note that SCSC's peer review system has changed, it now uses Snapp (Springer Nature’s Article Processing Platform). See the webpage for more information.
Congratulations on Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities being indexed in Scopus

We are delighted to announce that Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities has been officially indexed in the Scopus database as of 27 July 2025.

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Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities

Overview

Societies and partnerships

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Smart Construction, Landscaping, and Sustainability

Smart Mobility and Transformative Technologies for Sustainable Urban Futures

Emergencies Management Systems in Smart Cities

Latest articles

A hybrid deep compression model for enhanced classification of high-dimensional image data

Towards sustainable public transit: development of representative driving cycles for electric and CNG buses using naturalistic micro-trip data from Patna, India

Urban childcare infrastructure in Japan: evaluating satisfaction from the perspectives of parents and childcare workers in Matsudo City

Engineering-informed machine learning for bond-strength prediction, mechanism discovery, and reliability assessment of FRP-reinforced seawater sea-sand concrete

Thermal conductivity of bentonite-sand/fly ash composites for underground thermal infrastructure using neural network and ensemble tree-based machine learning approaches

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Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2026

Journal Metrics 2025

SNAPP – A New Manuscript Submission System

Congratulations on Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities being indexed in Scopus

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