Open Access

This journal is a peer reviewed, subsidized open access journal where the Southwest Jiaotong University pays for the publishing costs incurred by the journal permanently. Authors do not have to pay any Article Processing Charge or Open Access Publication Fee.

Peer review under the responsibility of Southwest Jiaotong University.

Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

User Rights
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license(s):

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. Authors will retain copyright but license rights in their article to Southwest Jiaotong University. Authors have the right to share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

Publishing Schedule
The journal is published bimonthly per year.

Contact Details
Editorial Office of Energy and Built Environment
Dr. Wenhui Ji
Email: wenhuiji@swjtu.edu.cn
Phone: +86-28-87601640
Address: No. 111, North Section 1, Second Ring Road, Chengdu 610031, China