Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems is devoted to the advancement of systems thinking and systems techniques throughout systems engineering, environmental engineering decision-making, and engineering management. We do this by publishing the practical applications and developments of "hard" and "soft" systems techniques and thinking.

Submissions that allow for better analysis of civil engineering and environmental systems might look at:

    Civil Engineering optimization
    Risk assessment in engineering
    Civil engineering decision analysis
    System identification in engineering
    Civil engineering numerical simulation
    Uncertainty modelling in engineering
    Qualitative modelling of complex engineering systems

Submissions on systems thinking that advance our understanding of complex civil engineering and environmental systems might examine:

    Safety in engineering systems
    Decision making with engineering systems
    Risk management in engineering systems
    Civil engineering environmental policy
    Sustainable development in civil engineering

Submissions that fall outside the scope of Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems and will not be considered , include, but are not limited to, those on:

    Testing of civil engineering materials, and the feasibility of use of sustainable materials.
    Sustainable construction and building design where systems methods are incidental or treated as opaque (black-box) tools.
    Construction management and project management case studies that are limited to surveys or bibliographic analysis and not systems analysis.
    System analysis tools (e.g., ANN, fuzzy logic) where the focus is on an incremental improvement in the tool, or an application using opaque tools.
    Modelling when the purpose is to solve a narrow specialist problem.
    Case studies that do not give rise to generalized knowledge.

Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. You can find out more information on our Instructions for Authors site.

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Co-Editors-in-Chief
Professor Paul W. Jowitt 
Institute of Infrastructure and Environment 
Heriot-Watt University 
Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS 
Tel:+44 (0) 451 3143 
Email: p.w.jowitt@hw.ac.uk 
Dr Mark Milke 
Civil and Natural Resources Engineering 
University of Canterbury 
Private Bag 4800 
Christchurch 8140 
New Zealand 
Email:  mark.milke@canterbury.ac.nz    
Associate Editors
Professor Priyan Dias
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Katubedda
Moratuwa
Sri Lanka
Email:  priyan@civil.mrt.ac.lk
 
Professor Marc A. Maes
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive
Calgary, T2N 1N4
Canada
Email:  mamaes@ucalgary.ca
 
Founding Editors
 
Professor Ian Munro  
Professor Colin B. Brown

International Editorial Board
 
Dr Jitendra Agarwal
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Bristol
Bristol
BS8 1TH
 
Professor D. I. Blockley
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Bristol
Bristol
BS8 1TH 
UK

Professor D. G. Carmichael
School of Civil Engineering
University of New South Wales
PO Box 1
Kensington
New South Wales 2033
Australia
 
Professor Ni-Bin Chang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Central Florida
Orlando
Florida 32816
USA

Professor D. G. Elms
Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
University of Canterbury 
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
 
Professor Ian Goulter
Charles Sturt University
The Grange 
Bathurst
NSW 2795
Australia

Professor F.C. Hadipriono Tan
Department of Civil Engineering
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ohio 43210
USA

Professor Jim Hall
University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute
South Parks Road 
Oxford
OX1 3QY
UK
 
Dr Alan Jessop
University of Durham Business School
Mill Hill Lane
Durham
DH1 3LB
UK
 
Professor Mohan Kumaraswamy
Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong SAR

Professor Jay Lund
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California Davis
CA 95616
USA

Professor R. E. Melchers
Dept of Civil Engineering & Surveying
University of Newcastle
Newcastle
New South Wales 2308
Australia
 
Dr Mary Moloney
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Cork Institute of Technology
Cork
Ireland
T12 P928
 
Assistant Professor Roshanak Nateghi
College of Engineering 
Purdue University
West Lafayette
IN 47907
USA

Dr Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl
Department of Civil Engineering
College of Engineering, Computer Science & Technology
California State University
5151 State University Drive 
Los Angeles 
CA 90032
USA

Professor Anil Sawhney
Liverpool John Moores University
Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Peter Jost Enterprise Centre
Byrom Street
Liverpool, L3 3AF
 
Dr Tiku Tanyimboh
University of the Witwatersrand,  
Johannesburg 
Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 
South Africa
 
Dr Guy Walker  
Institute of Infrastructure and Environment 
Heriot-Watt University 
Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14
Scotland
Professor Jennifer Whyte 
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
Imperial College London 
London, SW7-2AZ