Submission Guidelines

Objectives

• Disseminate and discuss methods for sustainable constructions and construction life cycle;
• To present and discuss the most frequent pathologies in general construction;

To know and analyze the main causes of pathologies;

• Disseminate the most used materials in the work of rehabilitation and reinforcement of existing structures; 
• Promote the exchange of experiences in the fields of the study of pathologies and the rehabilitation and strengthening of structures.

Aim and Scope:

CINPAR covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:- Climate changes and the built environment;- Constructions life cycle;- Hygrothermal behaviour of buildings;- Structural pathologies: stone, wood, mortar and concrete pathologies;- Diagnosis techniques: diagnostic methodological approach, traditional and innovative techniques, non-destructive methodologies;- Building pathology vs. Durability;- Asset and maintenance management: costs resulting from poor quality, maintenance and its deterioration;- Rehabilitation of the constructed heritage: strategies and incentives, diagnostic and design methodologies, the appropriately of existing regulations for rehabilitation, restoration of public spaces, adaptive rehabilitation, rehabilitation technologies;- Energy efficiency;- Building materials: ecology, nanotechnology and recent trends;- Applications and limitations of novel building technologies;- Structural health monitoring;- Sustainability and new materials for rehabilitation;- Infrastructure and urban scale studies;- Case studies;- Building information modeling;- Building performance simulation.

Language

CINPAR 2024 official languages for presentations and lectures are English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Publication

The selected articles submitted to CINPAR 2024 are going to be processed through a Special Issue: Building Pathology and Rehabilitation: Learnings, Case Studies and New Trends and if accepted published in the Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation

• Submission of papers to CINPAR 2023 must be performed through the Easychair platform; 

• The the Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation is indexed by Scopus (CiteScore: 2.60) 2.60, with Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

• Papers must be submitted by the corresponding author, in English, with a minimum of 10 (ten) pages, on the SNAPP Springer platform (click here).

• The corresponding author may submit only one paper on the Springer platform.

• Each author may contribute to a maximum of two papers.

• The registration fee covers the publication of one accepted paper. An additional publication fee is available to cover the publication of a second accepted paper.

• At least one author must be registered at the conference to ensure the publication of the accepted paper.

• Detailed information about the paper preparation can be read here.

•  Article template will be available on the www.cinpar.org

•  Template template presentation of papers at www.cinpar.org: 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to emesquita@ufc.br