Building and Environment
journal
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 (Boeing) and Xudong Yang (Tsinghua University). Qingyan Chen was editor-in-chief 2006-2024.
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.
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Why this record matters
The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15754716. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1976, 2006 and 2024.
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This entry incorporates text from “Building and Environment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.