2nd International Conference on Sustainable Development in Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering (CUTE 2018)

Preface

Sustainable development is actually an important topic which needs the attention of the society. The civil engineering is figured as one of the most impacting domains on the environment because of numerous problems such as the energy consumption, the CO2 emission and the natural resource depletion. Alternative solutions have been searched during the last decades to reduce environmental impacts of the civil engineering sector. Different approaches have been proposed: reducing the energy consumption by using low-embodied energy materials ("eco-materials"); developing the energy-efficient buildings with high thermal performance, with renewable energy integrations (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.), or by using the eco-architecture principles to optimize the energy consumption of the buildings. Today, sustainable development in civil engineering is not still restrained at a building scale but the city scale should be considered: the transport of the occupants between their residence and their work, the energy loss in the energy distribution network, etc.

In this context, the 2^nd International Conference on Sustainable Development in Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering (CUTE 2018) is organized at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, from 17 to 19 April 2018. This conference is organized by Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam) in cooperation with Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France), Hasselt University (Belgium), Technical University of Ostrava (Czech), Wrocław University of Technology (Poland) and University of Trieste (Italy). This is the second edition after the first conference which was organized in 2016. The main scope of CUTE 2018 conference is to propose an exchange platform for different approaches which can contribute to the sustainability of the civil engineering sector: investigations on sustainable materials and structures; intelligent principles in architecture design; sustainable solutions in transportation and urban planning.

The host organization Ton Duc Thang University is gratefully acknowledged for the administrative and logistical support. The co-organizer universities are thanked for their cooperation and support.

The sponsors of the conference are gratefully acknowledged for their financial supports.

The organizers would like also to thank Honorary Chairs, Conference Chairs, International Scientific Committee, and Local Organizing Committee.

Editors

Quoc-Bao BUI, Radim CAJKA, Minh-Tung TRAN, Tu-Anh TRINH Ansar-Ul-Haque YASAR, Geert WETS, Monika WOLOSZYN