About the Journal

Focus and Scope

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) is a three-times-a-year online research journal founded in December 2016 at the Department of Building Technology in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. It publishes original scientific works in English or Spanish about Educational Innovation in Technical Degrees in the scope of Building, Architecture, Engineering and Construction. It is a free full-text peer-reviewed “Open Acces” journal which does not charge any publication fee to the authors.

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) is aimed at an international audience, especially professors, teachers, researchers, students and anyone interested in pedagogical issues in the scope of building construction. 

Without being limited to, scientific articles focus mainly on: 

  • Rethinking the role of education in Technical Degrees
  • Learning and Teaching Methodologies
  • Evaluation and Assessment of Student Learning
  • Collaborative and Problem-based Learning
  • Flipped Learning
  • Technological issues in education (e-Learning, blended learning, mobile learning, Apps, Social Media, etc)
  • Technology-Enhanced Learning (ICT, MOOCs, BIM, augmented reality, virtual reality, etc)
  • New projects and innovations
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Vocational Training
  • New challenges for the Higher Education Area
  • Experiences in New degrees
  • International cooperation in Teaching
  • Innovative teaching material
  • Adaptation of primary and high school courses to technical degrees.

Peer Review Process

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) operates a double-blind review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. When referees offer disparate opinions or recommendations, the paper will be sent to a third referee.  In case of accepting the paper for publication, the authors must consider the comments made by the evaluators and resubmit the paper with the appropriate changes. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final. The editors affirm that they have no conflict of interest with respect to the rejected/accepted papers, and that they will  only  accept a  paper  when  they are reasonably certain of its authenticity.  If errors are found, the editors will encourage authors to modify or correct their contribution to be published, preserving, at any rate, the anonymity of the referees.

Reviewers should be experts in the field of the reviewed paper. They also should be objective in their comments and suggestions, have no conflict of interest and treat all manuscripts confidentially

All Authors are expected to help in the peer review process by reviewing at least 3 papers. We reserve the right to decline to consider papers from potential Authors who are too busy or unwilling to take part in the peer review process.

Open Access Policy

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) does not charge authors for processing or publishing an article and provides immediate Open Access to its content. All content is available free of charge to the user or his institution. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

  1. Authors retain the copyright and grant to the journal the right to a Creative Commons attribution / Non-Commercial / Non-Derivative 4.0 International (CC BY NC ND) License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of authorship and non-commercial use.
  2. Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book).
Unless otherwise indicated, all contents of the electronic edition are distributed under a Creative Commons license.

Publication Frequency

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) is published online in one yearly volume, divided into three issues every four months (April, August and December).

Anti-plagiarism Policy (Publication Ethics)

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) regards plagiarism as a very serious offence. Plagiarism in all forms, self-plagiarism, multiple or redundant publication, and data fabrication or manipulation constitute serious ethical failings and are considered scientific fraud. The journal uses the Turnitin software to manage potential academic misconduct and identify unoriginal content or instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted or published manuscripts.

All authors must ensure that the data and results reported in the manuscript are original and have not been copied, fabricated, falsified or manipulated.  Authors must not submit to ABE any manuscript that is simultaneously under consideration by another publisher and must not submit their manuscript to another publisher until they are notified that it has been rejected or have voluntarily withdrawn it from consideration.

ABE’s editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct occurs.  In the event that the journal’s editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct they will deal with allegations appropriately by publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) is a non-member of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) but endorses the principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing. In particular, the Retraction Guidelines and the Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.

Authors and Authors responsibilities

  • ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) does not charge authors for processing or publishing an article and provides immediate Open Access to its contet.
  • All Authors are expected to help in the peer review process by reviewing at least 3 papers. We reserve the right to decline to consider papers from potential Authors who are too busy or unwilling to take part in the peer review process.
  • The Journal expects that all the authors have significantly contributed to the research sent for evaluation, and that all data included in their articles are real and authentic. in the same way, we remind you that it is Forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.
  • The authors have the obligation to present the List of References at the end of the paper and to state any financial support in their research.
  • The Journal urges all authors to make changes suggested by the referees when a paper is accepted for publishing
  • All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Archiving

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) provides Crossref DOIs (Digital Object Identifier) to all published papers. Crossref’s bibliographic and reference metadata are preserved under Portico’s Digital Preservation Policies.

Editorial Board

Editor Jefe/Editor-in-chief

VERDÚ VÁZQUEZ, Amparo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España)

 

Editores Adjuntos/Deputy Editor

GIL LÓPEZ, Tomás (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España)

FERRÁNDEZ VEGA, Daniel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España)

SÁEZ PÉREZ, Mª Paz (Universidad de Granada, España)

VIDALES BARRIGUETE, Alejandra (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España)

 

Consejo Editorial/Editorial Board

ALFARO GONZÁLEZ, Jesús (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, España)

ALMEIDA CHICAIZA, Byron Sebastián (Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador)

BANAITIENÈ, Nerija (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lituania)

BORRÁS GENÉ, ORIOL (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España)

BOTASSO, Hugo Gerardo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)

BRIOSO LESCANO, Xavier (Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú)

BRIZUELA VALENZUELA, Daniela (Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

CALDERÓN CARPINTERO, Verónica (Universidad de Burgos, España)

DE IGNACIO VICENS, Guillermo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España)

FEMENÍA RIVERA, Carmen (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España)

FLORES MOLA, José (Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana, Cuba)

GARCÍA RUESGAS, Laura (Universidad de Sevilla, España)

GARCÍA LEÓN, Josefina (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, España)

GONZÁLEZ RODRIGO, Sonsoles (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España)

KOSIOR-KAZBERUK, Marta (Bialystok University of Technology, Polonia)

PIEDRA PULLAGUARI, Nelson Oswaldo (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador)

QUINTANILLA DOMÍNGUEZ, Joel (Universidad de Guadalajara, México)

RUIZ FERNÁNDEZ, Juan Pedro (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, España)

SANCHO SALAS, Andrea (Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica)

SANTAMARÍA VICARIO, Isabel (Universidad de Burgos, España)

SEGARRA CAÑAMARES, María (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, España)

TORRECILLAS LOZANO, Cristina (Universidad de Sevilla, España)

VALVERDE GASCUEÑA, Nelia (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, España)

ZÚÑIGA SUÁREZ, Alonso Rodrigo (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador)

Copyright and Licensing Information for Authors

Thank you for considering ADVANCES IN BUILDING EDUCATION as a platform for disseminating your scholarly work. To ensure transparency and facilitate the dissemination of knowledge, we provide the following information regarding copyright and licensing:

Copyright Policy:

Authors retain the copyright to their work published in ADVANCES IN BUILDING EDUCATION. This means that authors maintain ownership of their intellectual property rights, including the right to reproduce, distribute, and display their work.

Licensing Information:

Upon acceptance for publication, authors are required to select a licensing option for their work. ADVANCES IN BUILDING EDUCATION offers the following licensing options:

1. Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY): This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the author(s) for the original creation. 

2. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC): This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as they credit the author(s) for the original creation. 

3. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND): This license allows others to download the work and share it with others as long as they credit the author(s), but they can't change it in any way or use it commercially.

4. All Rights Reserved: Authors may choose to retain all rights to their work and not apply a Creative Commons license. In this case, permission must be obtained from the author(s) for any use beyond fair dealing or fair use.

Open Access Policy:

ADVANCES IN BUILDING EDUCATION is committed to promoting open access to scholarly research. All articles published in our journal are freely available to readers worldwide, promoting greater visibility and accessibility of your work.

Publication Agreement:

Upon acceptance for publication, authors will be required to sign a publication agreement with ADVANCES IN BUILDING EDUCATION. This agreement will outline the selected licensing option, copyright ownership, and any other relevant provisions.

For further inquiries regarding copyright, licensing, or publication policies, please contact the editorial office at contact email.

We appreciate your contributions to ADVANCES IN BUILDING EDUCATION and look forward to collaborating with you to advance scholarship in the field of education.

Journal History

ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) is a three-times-a-year online research journal founded in December 2016 at the Department of Building Technology in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. It publishes original scientific works in English or Spanish about Educational Innovation in the scope of Building Construction. It is a free full-text peer-reviewed “Open Acces” journal which does not charge any publication fee to the authors.