Building and Environment


Building and Environment is a semimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which focuses on building science, human interaction with built environment, as well as their applications to building design and operation. It was established in 1965 as Building Science, changing to the current name in 1976. It is published by Elsevier and the editors-in-chief are Chao-Hsin Lin and Xudong Yang.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 7.1.