Sustainable building materials are useful in the construction industry, which can support population increase and city expansion. In the past, cement-based concrete materials have been used in construction all over the world, because of their long-life, low life-cycle cost and durability. Despite its widespread application, there are two main issues dealing with cement-based concrete materials. First, the production of cement produces many pollutants which can occur from raw material extraction to the end of construction. Pollution then contributes to global warming due to the emission of carbon dioxide, increasing landfill sizes, and so on. Second, such cement-based concrete materials, after used for a period, can deteriorate due to natural causes, chemical attack, mechanical loads, and more. This requires newly built structures or reconstruction.

To avoid these issues, there are two main strategies: first is the use of durable and sustainable cementitious materials, and second is the remedial action of repair and maintenance for service life extension. For the first strategy, there are various kinds of materials available in the market, for example fly ash is used in many countries which produce a waste by-product originated from power plants. Second, the remedial action of repair and maintenance, including methods like silane treatment and concrete patching repair, is necessary to avoid reconstruction. To achieve this second strategy, there are various tasks in the repair and maintenance process. One of them is health monitoring for predicting proper remedial action time based on considering steel corrosion or concrete cracking. To fulfil with these two strategies, further research into such specialized material systems is needed.

This aim of this Special Issue is to present recent advances in the field of specialized materials for sustainable use in construction. We kindly invite you to submit both original research and review articles.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Waste materials for sustainable use.
• Repair material systems for sustainability purposes.
• Strengthening civil structures by sustainable materials.
• Specialized materials for health-monitoring.
• Smart materials for sustainable use with concrete.
• Life-cycle analysis of specialized sustainable material systems.