The European Research Area has now become a reality. The prime objective of the EJECE is to fully document advances in International scientific and technical research in the fields of sustainable construction and soil engineering. In particular regard to the latter, the mechanical behavior of natural media (soils and rocks) in their environment and the mitigation of soil-related risks are now not only major societal challenges, but they are also the source of scientific and technical developments that could be extremely beneficial.
Areas covered by the EJECE include rheology of geomaterials (cement, soils, rocks), natural media (muds, snow, ice, etc.) and granular materials, soil-fluid-structure interactions and their coupling with temperature, chemistry (degradation, etc.) and time (durability, ageing, etc.), computation and design of structures and engineering works. The new experimental facilities and measurement tools (metrology and sensors in laboratories and in the field, etc.) and the characterizing of displacement fields and of micro-meso-structures of materials (scanner, tomodensitometer, etc.) give rise to major innovations which concern thus primarily the EJECE. Finally the numerical methods (finite differences, finite elements, discrete elements, particulate methods, etc), which constitute obviously the bases of the modelling and of the computation of structures and engineering works, fall completely in the interest area of the Journal.
Manuscripts should present original studies including scientific advances. Case studies could be considered only if they are related to a clear scientific or technical innovation. 

Editors-in-Chief 
Christian La Borderie, SIAME-ISABTP/Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France 
François Nicot, Cemagref, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France
Associate Editors 
Jorge de Brito, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal 
Maosong Huang, Tongji University, China 
Fabrice Gatuingt, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France 
Xia Li, Southeast University of Nanjing, China and Nottingham University, UK 
Enzo Martinelli, University of Salerno, Italy 
Gunter Meschke, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 
Manuel Pastor, ETS de Ingenieros de Caminos, Madrid, Spain 
Lorenzo Sanavia, Universita di Padova, Italy 
Jian-Fu Shao, Université de Lille, France 
François Toutlemonde, LCPC Paris, France 
Eric Vincens, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France 
Honorary Editors 
Jean-Armand Calgaro, CGPC, France 
Felix Darve, INP Grenoble, France 
Marco di Prisco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Jean-Pierre Ollivier, INSA Toulouse, France

Editorial Board Members 

V. Baroghel-Bouny - LCPC, Paris, France 
R. de Borst - Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics in the University of Glasgow, UK 
D. Breysse - Laboratoire I2M, Université Bordeaux 1, France 
P. de Buhan - Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne-la-Vallée, France 
B. Cambou - INRETS, Arcueil, France 
L. Cascini - University of Salerno, Italy 
F. Collin - FNRS, Université de Liège, Belgique 
J. Desrues - CNRS Laboratoire 3S-R, Grenoble, France 
H. Di Benedetto - DGCB/ENTPE, Vaulx-en-Velin, France 
C. Di Prisco - Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
M. S. El Youssoufi - LMGC, Montpellier, France 
J.-M. Fleureau - Laboratoire MSSMat, Ecole Centrale Paris, France 
J. Gril - LMGC, Montpellier, France 
I. Herle - Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Universität Dresden, Germany 
P.-Y. Hicher - Institut GEM, Ecole centrale de Nantes, France 
F. del Isola - Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza 
T. Jefferson, Cardiff University, UK 
A. Jullien - LCPC, Paris, France 
D. Kolymbas - Institute of Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
L. Laloui - LMS - EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse 
G. Manfredi - University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy 
F. Masrouri - INPL/LAEGO, Nancy-Université, France 
A. Millard - CEA/DM2S/LM2S, CEN Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 
O. Millet - Université de la Rochelle, France 
R. Neves - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal 
L.-O. Nilsson - Laboratory of Building Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Lund, Sweden 
C. Petit - Université de Limoges, France 
G. Pijaudier-Cabot - Laboratoire des fluides complexes, Anglet, France 
M. Savoia - University of Bologna, Italy 
A. Sellier, University of Toulouse, France  
I. Shahrour - Laboratoire de mécanique de Lille, Université Lille 1, France 
L. Taerwe - Laboratoire Magnel, Université de Gand, Belgique 
K. van Breugel - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands