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The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. RILA covers the years 1975–1989. It was produced at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Michael Rinehart was the editor-in-chief. In 1982, Getty began to support RILA, and in 1990 the Getty began to collaborate with INIST-CNRS to produce the BHA, which was a merger of RILA and the Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie. BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals and includes all articles within the subject scope of BHA regardless of the subject focus of a particular journal. Thus, many of the journals on this list are covered partially, as only some of their articles are within BHA's scope.
CUMINCAD: Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design
This is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 11,000 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, ASCAAD, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD Futures, DSS and others. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some 8,100 papers are also available, however, to access full texts one needs to be a member of a CAAD association. Guests may search the database but will only see citation information.
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It may be helpful to read current news in architecture to find topics that would be interesting to research. The following is a list of journals that you can browse online through the publishers' Websites. If a title is available in one of our databases, click on the database icon included with the title and publisher information. If a title is not available in one of our databases, and you cannot access an article for free on the publisher's Website, please request a copy via interlibrary loan.

AA Files by Architectural Association School of Architecture
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AA Files is the Architectural Association School of Architecture's journal of record. Launched in 1981 by the AA School's then chairman Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out to members of the Architectural Association, individual subscribers and is distributed to a global network of bookshops. Currently under the editorship of Thomas Weaver, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing both on the AA School’s own academic research, lecture programme, exhibitions and events, as well by a rich and eclectic mix of architectural scholarship from all over the world.
APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology by Association for Preservation Technology International (APT)
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The APT Bulletin, published three times per year by the Association for Preservation Technology International (APT), provides state-of-the-art technical information in the field of historic preservation. Articles published in the Bulletin showcase cutting-edge preservation techniques, as well as innovative applications of established restoration technologies. Articles also include case studies demonstrating best practices, exemplary craftsmanship, debates on preservation philosophy, and histories of building materials, technologies, and systems. The APT Bulletin also addresses emerging issues and trends, such as preservation engineering and the integration of sustainability and preservation. Many of the articles published in the APT Bulletin each year are developed from papers presented at the annual APT conference or other APT-sponsored events and symposia.
Architect's Guide to Glass & Metal by Key Communications Inc.
The Architects’ Guide to Glass & Metal is the only architectural glass publication in the world dedicated exclusively to architects with a high level interest in glass. It serves as the bridge among the architectural glass and metal industry, architects, specifiers and designers.
Architect: The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects by Hanley Wood, LLC
The official magazine of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) delivers in-depth features on industry trends, design, technology, local markets, products, culture, and the business of architecture.
Architectural Design by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Founded in 1930, Architectural Design (AD) is an influential and prestigious publication. It combines the currency and topicality of a newsstand journal with the rigour and production qualities of a book. With an almost unrivalled reputation worldwide, it is consistently at the forefront of cultural thought and design. Each title of AD is presented as a thematic volume edited by an invited guest-editor, who is an international expert in their field. Renowned for being at the leading edge of design and new technologies, AD also covers topics as diverse as: architectural history and theory, the environment, interior design, landscape architecture and urban design.
Architectural Digest by Condé Nast
AD provides exclusive access to the world’s most beautiful homes and the fascinating people who live in them, bringing its audience a wealth of information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and extraordinary products; its AD100 list of top architects and designers is one of the industry’s most relied-upon indexes of talent. Every day Architectural Digest inspires millions of affluent readers to redesign and refresh their lives through a multiplatform presence that includes print and digital editions, social media, signature events, and a newly relaunched website archdigest.com.
Architectural History by The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
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Published each autumn, this is one of the world's leading periodicals in the field. The architecture of the British Isles has always been one of the particular strengths of the journal, but there are no geographical or chronological limits to its range, which continues to expand. All issues of Architectural History from three or more years ago are available for consultation on-line through JSTOR, one of the Madigan Library's databases. Included on this page is a link to a "places" index.
Architectural Lighting by Hanley Wood, LLC
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Reports on news and events in the world of lighting, new products, technology and research, and business, legal, and industry issues related to the practice of lighting design.
Architectural Record by McGraw Hill Financial
Essential to the profession for more than 110 years, Architectural Record provides a compelling editorial mix of design ideas and trends, building science, business and professional strategies, exploration of key issues, news products and computer-aided practice.
Architectural Review by EMAP Publishing Limited
The Architectural Review is the only global architecture magazine for the 21st century. Be inspired and provoked by incisive critiques and the thinking behind the buildings shaping architectural discourse.
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly by Cambridge University Press
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arq publishes cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, arq is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Other features include interviews, occasional reports, lively letters pages, book reviews and an end feature, Insight. Reviews of significant buildings are published at length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Elegantly designed, inspirational and often provocative, arq is essential reading for practitioners in industry and consultancy as well as for academic researchers.
Award: Architecture, Design, Construction by Canada Wide Media Limited
Award magazine serves the special interests of architects, interior designers and construction industry professionals. It is the only media property in Canada to address the concerns of all five design/construction professions—architecture, construction, interior design, engineering and landscape architecture. Six times per year, this large format magazine presents building industry professionals across Canada with well-researched, vital stories and updates on the people, projects and issues driving their industries. Award magazine is also a key source for information about the newest products and services available to building professionals and is a leading source for industry news.
Building by Business Information Group
Canada's national newsmagazine for building industry professionals with focus on real estate development and architecture including residential, both single and multi-unit, commercial, industrial, institutional and hospitality.
Building Design by Building Design
Architecture news, comment and opinion from the UK.
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum by the University of Minnesota Press
Examines the built world--houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls--that make up the spaces that most people experience every day. Strongly based on fieldwork and archival research that views buildings as windows into human life and culture, articles are written by historians, preservationists, architects, cultural and urban geographers, cultural anthropologists, and others involved with the documentation, analysis, and interpretation of the built world.
Canadian Architect by Business Information Group
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Canadian Architect is a magazine for architects and related professionals practicing in Canada. Canada's only monthly design publication, Canadian Architect has been in continuous publication since 1955. This national review of design and practice documents significant architecture and design from across the country and features articles on current practice, building technology, and social issues affecting architecture.
Clem Labine's Period Homes by Active Interest Media
The comprehensive resource for professionals involved in residential restoration and renovation, as well as the design and construction of new homes built in traditional styles.
Clem Labine's Traditional Building by Active Interest Media
The comprehensive resource for professionals involved in restoring old buildings or designing and constructing new buildings in traditional styles.
Design Issues by The MIT Press
The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book reviews, and illustrations. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as artificial intelligence, product seminars, design in Asia, and design education. Scholars, students, and professionals in all the design fields are readers of each issue.
Dezeen Magazine
Dezeen is one of the world's most popular and influential architecture and design magazines, and the winner of numerous awards for journalism and publishing.
Dimensions by A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
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Dimensions is the annual, student-produced journal of architecture at the University of Michigan. It seeks to contribute to the critical discourse of architectural education by documenting the most compelling work produced by its students, faculty, fellows, and visiting lecturers.
Environment and Behavior by Environmental Design Research Association
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Environment and Behavior (EAB) examines relationships between human behavior and the natural and built environment. Diverse research topics include environmental experiences (e.g., restorativeness, place attachment/identity, environmental perception/cognition); environmental outcomes (e.g., pro-environmental behaviors such as recycling; health-supportive environments; design preferences); and processes linking environments and behaviors that support or thwart human well-being.
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design by Pion
Its goal is the publication of high-quality articles which report leading edge research in the application of formal methods, methods models, and theories to spatial problems which involve the built environment and the spatial structure of cities and regions. The journal also specialises in new approaches to planning and design methods which explore ways of generating and evaluating optimal plans and policies. With recent dramatic developments in computing and networking, the journal has become a forum for major research in the application of computers to planning and design, in particular the use of shape grammars, artificial intelligence, and morphological methods to buildings and towns, the use of multimedia and GIS in urban and regional planning, and the development of ideas concerning the virtual city. These are areas of research that the journal is especially interested in promoting at present but within the general frame work of promoting any new approaches to planning and design which reflect formal methods of inquiry and analysis. The journal also publishes longer length reviews pertaining to topical issues in planning and design, as well as book reviews, comments and letters on articles, together with state-of-the-art reviews of the field.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space by Pion
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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is an international and interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for the discussion of the mutually constitutive relation between the social and the spatial. It seeks to be philosophically sophisticated, to be practically relevant, and to concretely theorise a range of contemporary, historical, political, and cultural contexts. Space is broadly conceived: from landscapes of the body to global geographies; from cyberspace to old growth forests; as metaphorical and material; as theoretically nuanced and empirically rich. Interpretations move across theoretical and empirical spectrums, from psychoanalysis to political economy; anthropology to literature; and philosophy to architecture. The journal editors are equally committed to the spatial aspects of political action and the abstractions of social theory. We believe that this commitment is best achieved by keeping a balance between, and placing into, creative tension, economic, political, and cultural analyses, informed by theoretical innovation and underpinned by a range of empirical research.
Environment, Development and Sustainability by Springer
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Environment, Development and Sustainability is an international, multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development. Concerned with the complex interactions between development and environment, its purpose is to seek ways and means for achieving sustainability in all human activities aimed at such development. Coverage includes interactions among society, development and environment, and their implications for sustainable development; technical, economic, ethical and philosophical aspects of sustainable development; local, regional and global sustainability and their practical implementation; development and application of indicators of sustainability; development, verification, implementation and monitoring of policies for sustainable development; sustainable use of land, water, energy and biological resources in development; impacts of agriculture and forestry activities on soil and aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, and much more.
Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism by University of Minnesota Press
Future Anterior approaches historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and theoretical analysis. The journal is an important international forum for the critical examination of historic preservation, spurring challenges of its assumptions, goals, methods, and results. As the first journal in American academia devoted to the study and advancement of historic preservation, it provides a much-needed bridge between architecture and history.
Gesta by The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the International Center of Medieval
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Gesta presents original research on developments in the study of art and life of the Middle Ages. The journal embraces all facets of artistic production from ca. 300 to ca. 1500 C.E., in Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the Slavic world.
Grey Room by The MIT Press
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Grey Room is a scholarly journal devoted to the theorization of modern and contemporary architecture, art, media, and politics. Published quarterly, it is dedicated to the task of promoting and sustaining critical investigation into each of these fields separately and into their mutual interactions.
Harvard Design Magazine by Harvard Graduate School of Design
Published bi-annually by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, HDM provides critical explorations of key contemporary issues and practices related to the built environment and the quality of life connected to it. Essays, images, discussions, interviews, book reviews, and columns of criticism on recent projects, as well as on design, practice and design education, will appear regularly. The magazine's goal is to provide a forum for thoughtful and articulate practitioners, journalists, and academics, primarily from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning.
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal by SAGE
HERD is the only journal featuring evidence-based articles on the design of health environments and the design-related outcomes associated with safety, clinical results, organizational performance, economics, and the human experience. The commitment to an interdisciplinary design process is reflected in HERD’s interdisciplinary Editorial Board, with representatives from healthcare (including nursing, medicine, and healthcare administration), the design industry (architecture, engineering, interiors, graphics), environmental and behavioral psychology, neurosciences, systems and organizational effectiveness, art, music, and other complementary fields.
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Hesperia is published quarterly by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Founded in 1932 and devoted primarily to the timely publication of reports on projects sponsored by the School, Hesperia also welcomes submissions from all scholars working in the fields of Greek archaeology, art, epigraphy, history, and literature. The geographic limits are those of the entire Greek world, with no chronological restrictions. Articles presenting primary research, interdisciplinary studies, theoretical discussions, and syntheses of topics and problems are all featured. Studies on the history and practice of archaeology and ethnography in the Mediterranean are also included.
Interior Design by Sandow Media LLC
Interior Design Magazine offers the latest interior design trends, ideas, contemporary architecture and design news. Each month, the magazine features a variety of outstanding projects, the latest new products across all disciplines, industry news and more.
Journal of Architectural and Planning Research by Locke Science Publishing Company, Inc.
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The Journal of Architectural and Planning Research is the major international interdisciplinary resource for professionals and scholars in architecture, design, and planning. Reporting internationally both recent research findings and innovative new practices, JAPR provides a link between theory and practice for researchers and practicing professionals.
Journal of Architectural Engineering by American Society of Civil Engineers
The Journal of Architectural Engineering provides a multidisciplinary forum for dissemination of practice based information on the engineering and technical issues concerning all aspects of building design. Peer-reviewed papers and case studies will address issues and topics related to buildings, such as planning and financing, analysis and design, construction and maintenance, codes applications and interpretations, conversion and renovation, and preservation.
Journal of Green Building by College Publishing
The purpose of the Journal of Green Building is to present the very best of practical applications (Part I) together with the very best of peer-reviewed research (Part II) in green building design and construction. The research section of the Journal of Green Building publishes peer-reviewed articles in the fields of architecture, engineering, construction, construction management, building science, facilities management, landscape architecture, interior design, and all disciplines related to the built environment. The Journal of Green Building is unique in pairing a research section together with an applied industry section. The result is an eminently useful publication for researchers, teachers, students, and industry professionals. The Journal of Green Building is published quarterly.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment by Springer
The Journal of Housing and the Built Environment presents the refereed results of original scientific research, and new developments in policy and practice in the fields of housing, spatial planning, building and urban development. The aim is to give international exposure to recent developments, providing a forum for the exchange and discussion of new ideas. The journal benefits a diverse readership of scientists, specialists, practitioners and policy-makers in government and in organizations dealing with housing and urban issues.
Journal of Interior Design by Interior Design Educators Council
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The Journal of Interior Design is a scholarly, refereed publication dedicated to issues related to the design of the interior environment. Scholarly inquiry representing the entire spectrum of interior design theory, research, education and practice is invited. Submissions are encouraged from educators, designers, anthropologists, architects, historians, psychologists, sociologists, or others interested in interior design.
Journal of the American Planning Association by American Planning Association (APA)
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For more than 70 years, the quarterly Journal of the American Planning Association ( JAPA ) has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policymakers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians by Society of Architectural Historians
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The JSAH is a blind-peer reviewed international journal devoted to all aspects of the history of the built environment and spatial practice, including architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and city planning. Published since 1941, the JSAH has defined the field of architectural history, and is a pioneer in digital publication. We seek articles that are historically rigorous, conceptually sophisticated, and theoretically innovative. Our scope is global.
Journal of Urban Design by Routledge
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The Journal of Urban Design is a scholarly international journal which advances theory, research and practice in urban design. There is a growing recognition of the need for urban design in shaping, managing and improving the quality of the urban environment. It is now considered one of the core knowledge components of planning education and practice and is equally important for architectural education and practice. Thus, increasing numbers of architects, planners, surveyors, landscape architects and other professions concerned with the quality of urban development are specialising in urban design.
Log by Anyone Corporation
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Log is an independent journal on architecture and the contemporary city that presents criticism and commentary in a literary format designed to resist the seductive power of the image in media, while identifying and elaborating the central concerns of architectural thinking and production today. A carefully crafted compendium of essays, interviews, and brief “observations,” Log provides an ongoing international platform for the exchange of ideas, both bearing on and emanating from architecture and the city, among a curious audience of readers, including architects, designers, students, scholars, and artists. Published three times a year, general “open” issues are punctuated by occasional thematic issues on prescient topics. Founded in 2003, Log is a project of the Anyone Corporation, a non-profit organization in New York City devoted to advancing architectural thought and writing.
Metropolis by Metropolis Magazine
Metropolis examines contemporary life through design, architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.
Perspecta by The MIT Press
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Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, the oldest student-edited architectural journal in the United States, is internationally respected for its contributions to contemporary architectural discourse with original presentations of new projects as well as historical and theoretical essays. Perspecta's editors solicit articles from distinguished scholars and practitioners from around the world, and then, working with graphic design students from the School of Art, produce the journal.
Places by Design Observer Group
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Places is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape and urbanism, with a particular focus on the public realm as both physical place and social ideal. We publish essays, peer-reviewed scholarship, observations, reviews, visual portfolios, and occasionally poetry and fiction, with new articles appearing weekly. Whatever the format, we are dedicated to advancing public awareness of the expansive value of design research and practice, with the ultimate goal of promoting sustainable cities and healthy landscapes. Prior to moving online in 2009, Places was a print journal founded in 1983 by faculty at MIT and Berkeley.
Planning by American Planning Association
Every month, thousands of people — professionals and interested laypeople alike — read Planning to learn how innovative planning programs and techniques are reshaping America's communities.
Preservation by National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Preservation is the award-winning magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the organization that works to revitalize our communities and save our beloved historic places.
Residential Architect by Hanley Wood, LLC
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Delivers in-depth features on current design trends and product information and news for architects, designers, and design and build firms. Residential Architect is a magazine of the American Institute of Architects.
The Architects' Journal: The Home of British Architecture by EMAP Publishing Limited
The Architects' Journal is the voice of architecture in Britain. We sit at the heart of the debate about British architecture and British cities, and form opinions across the whole construction industry on design-related matters
Town Planning Review by Liverpool University Press
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Town Planning Review has been one of the world's leading journals of urban and regional planning since its foundation in 1910. With an extensive international readership, TPR is a well established urban and regional planning journal, providing a principal forum for communication between researchers and students, policy analysts and practitioners.
Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review by International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)
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Traditional dwellings and settlements accommodate most of the world’s population. In recent years, interest in such environments has become widespread among scholars working within the disciplines of architecture, anthropology, art history, geography, history, planning, folklore, and many others. The International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) was established at the First International Symposium on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements held at Berkeley in April 1988 to act as an interdisciplinary forum where scholars from various disciplines and countries can exchange ideas, discuss methods and approaches, and share findings. In contrast to disciplinary societies concerned with the advancement of particular disciplines, IASTE is more interested in the comparative, cross-cultural, and inter-disciplinary understanding of traditional dwellings and settlements as an expression of cultural conventions. In this capacity, IASTE has three main venues to fulfill its mission. First, it publishes a semi-annual, refereed journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. It collaborates with a local university in diverse locations around the world to host a biennial international cross-disciplinary conference on selected themes. Third, IASTE hosts a visiting scholar program that attracts academics from around the world working on themes of tradition and the built environment.
Urban Design International by Palgrave Macmillan
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Urban Design International is a scholarly publication with a strong practitioner emphasis. It is relevant for all of those involved in architectural and planning education and practice. It is relevant for urban designers, architects, planners, surveyors and landscape architects and all professionals concerned with urban development and design.
Winterthur Portfolio by The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc.
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Winterthur Portfolio fosters knowledge of the North American past by publishing articles on material culture and the historical contexts within which artifacts developed. The journal presents scholarship that critically engages art history, history, geography, ethnology, archaeology, anthropology, folklife studies, and literature. We invite articles that are analytical and synthetic rather than descriptive, and we encourage interdisciplinary studies that integrate artifacts into a cultural framework.

It may be helpful to read current news in building and construction to find topics that would be interesting to research. The following is a list of journals that you can browse online through the publishers' Websites. If a title is available in one of our databases, click on the database icon included with the title and publisher information (see the legend on the left). If a title is not available in one of our databases, and you cannot access an article for free on the publisher's Website, please request a copy via interlibrary loan.

Advances in Building Energy Research by Taylor & Francis
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Advances in Building Energy Research ( ABER ) aims to provide expert and authoritative reviews and analyses of the most important developments across the rapidly expanding fields of energy efficiency and environmental performance of buildings. It also provides a unique forum by bringing together invited contributions from the foremost international experts, to examine new technologies and methodologies with the latest research on systems, simulations and standards. Published bi-annually and peer-reviewed, ABER delivers an invaluable resource for architects, building engineers, environmental engineers, industry professionals, students, teachers and researchers in building science.
Building and Environment by Elsevier Ltd.
Building and Environment is an international journal that publishes original research papers and review articles related to building science and human interaction with the built environment. The Journal is focused on new knowledge, rigorously verified with measurement and analysis, related to the environmental performance of buildings in different scales, ranging from cities, communities, buildings, to building systems and assemblies.
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology by SAGE
Building Services Engineering Research & Technology is one of the foremost, international peer reviewed journals that publishes the highest quality original research relevant to today’s Built Environment. Published in conjunction with CIBSE, this impressive journal reports on the latest research providing you with an invaluable guide to recent developments in the field. BSER&T covers the full range of energy and environmental services in buildings, including: heating, ventilation, air conditioning, building, electrical services, building acoustics, water supply and sanitation, and vertical transport.
Construction Global by White Digital Media Group
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Construction Global is an innovative digital publication aimed at bringing business executives and others with an interest in the sector up-to-date with the latest news, information and trends from across the industry. Our digital platform includes an interactive website and magazine experience that will bring you inside the world of construction with comprehensive insight and analysis. We seek to inform, engage and interact with construction executives about key trends, technological advances and software innovation, modern construction techniques, operational excellence and more. We strive to bring you the latest on contract awards and completion, green building, infrastructure and other major projects, equipment, architecture, industry events, managerial appointments and more.
Engineered Systems by BNP Media
Engineered Systems (ES) Magazine provides practical, energy-efficient solutions for mechanical engineering projects. Whether it's a renovation or new construction, ES delivers new ideas to help your commercial, institutional, industrial, and government buildings achieve LEED and Energy Star certification. Written by engineers for engineers.
Journal of Green Building by College Publishing
The purpose of the Journal of Green Building is to present the very best of practical applications (Part I) together with the very best of peer-reviewed research (Part II) in green building design and construction. The research section of the Journal of Green Building publishes peer-reviewed articles in the fields of architecture, engineering, construction, construction management, building science, facilities management, landscape architecture, interior design, and all disciplines related to the built environment. The Journal of Green Building is unique in pairing a research section together with an applied industry section. The result is an eminently useful publication for researchers, teachers, students, and industry professionals. The Journal of Green Building is published quarterly.
Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials by Taylor & Francis
The Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials aims to publish theoretical and applied researches on materials, products and structures that incorporate cement. The journal is a forum for discussion of research on manufacture, hydration and performance of cement-based materials; novel experimental techniques; the latest analytical and modelling methods; the examination and the diagnosis of real cement and concrete structures; and the potential for improved cement-based materials.
SNAP: Swets News and Products by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The newest publication from McGraw-Hill Construction, SNAP will provide our readers with a quick and accessible way to learn about the latest product news, trends, statistics, events, and more, in a compelling, thorough editorial presentation. Devoted entirely to covering building products, SNAP differentiates itself by utilizing the resources available only through McGraw-Hill Construction, including data and statistics you won’t find anywhere else. SNAP will be published quarterly.
Sustainable Construction by Cygnus Business Media
Sustainable Construction magazine delivers best-practices, products, and resources that contractors can use to balance environmental, social, and economic issues relative to sustainable construction.

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