What is the Building and Environment JIF?

The JIF is 8.4. See the full year-by-year trend and category ranking in our Building and Environment JIF analysis.

What is the acceptance rate of Building and Environment?

Manusights currently treats Selective Elsevier built-environment journal as an estimate for Building and Environment, not an official journal-published rate. One common reason papers fail is building is only the location.

How long does Building and Environment take to review?

Building and Environment typically takes Editorial screening first; peer review after editor fit, but timing varies by editor, field, and reviewer availability. Expect an editorial screen first, then scope fit, then peer review.

Is Building and Environment peer reviewed?

Yes, Building and Environment is peer reviewed. Reviewers assess methods, reporting completeness, scope fit, and whether the conclusions are supported by the data.

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Publishing in Building and Environment: Fit, Timeline & Submission Guide

Q: Is Building and Environment a good journal?

Building and Environment is a strong target for manuscripts that match its scope and pass its main editorial fit screen. Key fit signal: The paper should teach readers something about buildings, indoor environments, or building operation beyond a local case report. Main risk: A study conducted in a building is not automatically a built-environment contribution.

Q: What does Building and Environment look for in submissions?

Built-environment contribution: The paper should teach readers something about buildings, indoor environments, or building operation beyond a local case report.

Q: What should I know before submitting to Building and Environment?

Name the building-environment mechanism early. The abstract should tell editors what changes about building science, design, operation, or exposure interpretation.

Building and Environment fits manuscripts where the building-environment system is the scientific protagonist, not just the study location.

Should you submit here?

IF 8.4 · Acceptance rate: Selective Elsevier built-environment journal · Editorial screening first; peer review after editor fit

Best fit if

The paper should teach readers something about buildings, indoor environments, or building operation beyond a local case report

Not ideal if

A study conducted in a building is not automatically a built-environment contribution

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8.4

Impact Factor

Selective Elsevier built-environment journal

Acceptance Rate

Editorial screening first; peer review after editor fit

Time to First Decision

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What Building and Environment Publishes

Building and Environment publishes research on built-environment science, including indoor environmental quality, building physics, energy performance, ventilation, thermal comfort, occupant behavior, and sustainable building systems.

Built-environment manuscripts with transferable analytical contribution beyond one case site
Indoor environmental quality, ventilation, thermal comfort, building-energy, and building-physics studies
Measurement, modeling, simulation, and intervention studies where building context changes the scientific question

Editor Insight

“Building and Environment readiness depends on whether the manuscript proves a transferable built-environment contribution, not only a technically sound site study.”

What Building and Environment Editors Look For

Built-environment contribution

The paper should teach readers something about buildings, indoor environments, or building operation beyond a local case report.

Analytical structure

Methods, figures, and validation should support a clear causal, mechanistic, or transferable claim.

Correct adjacent-venue routing

Authors should know why Building and Environment is cleaner than Energy and Buildings, Indoor Air, Building Simulation, or Applied Energy.

Why Papers Get Rejected

These patterns appear repeatedly in manuscripts that don't make it past Building and Environment's editorial review:

Building is only the location

A study conducted in a building is not automatically a built-environment contribution.

Performance results without analytical claim

Editors need to see what the measurements or model change about building science.

Generic engineering cover letter

A strong cover letter explains why Building and Environment owns the manuscript.

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Insider Tips from Building and Environment Authors

Name the building-environment mechanism early

The abstract should tell editors what changes about building science, design, operation, or exposure interpretation.

Make validation visible

Boundary conditions, uncertainty, calibration, and sensitivity checks help distinguish analysis from case reporting.

The Building and Environment Submission Process

Scope fit

Before upload

Confirm the manuscript is a built-environment contribution rather than generic engineering or local monitoring.

Prepare Elsevier package

Pre-submission

Finalize manuscript, figures, highlights, declarations, data availability, and supplementary files.

Submit online

Day 0

Upload through Elsevier Editorial Manager following the live guide for authors.

Editorial assessment

Initial screen

Editors screen scope, analytical contribution, evidence quality, and reviewer fit.

Peer review

After editor invitation

Reviewers assess model validity, measurement design, uncertainty, transferability, and practical implications.

Building and Environment by the Numbers

Publisher	Elsevier
Core scope	Built environment and indoor environmental quality
Submission system	Elsevier Editorial Manager

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Article Types

Research Paper

Original built-environment research article

Review

Synthesis of built-environment research or methods

Landmark Building and Environment Papers

Papers that defined fields and changed science:

Indoor environmental quality studies
Building-energy modeling papers
Thermal comfort and ventilation analyses

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Primary Fields

Built EnvironmentIndoor Environmental QualityBuilding PhysicsBuilding EnergyThermal Comfort

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