Materials science impacts all aspects of our life and is the basis for the development of modern society. The main purpose of building and infrastructural engineering is to derive the most benefit from the role of materials in achieving the most economical construction while also ensuring structural safety. The development of building and infrastructural engineering promotes the progress of material science, and in turn, the rapid development of materials science provides the foundation and more possibilities for solving problems in building and infrastructural engineering.

The application of materials science in civil engineering, including processing technology and structure and properties of novel building materials, has evolved rapidly in recent decades. At present, the application of novel materials in building and infrastructural engineering has received great attention in the field of disaster prevention and mitigation, including but not limited to earthquakes, wind damage, fire hazards, and structural retrofitting, as well as other aspects corresponding to project decision and risk analysis.

The main aim of this Special Issue is to explore and share recent progress and novel trends in the application of novel building materials for disaster prevention and mitigation. Original articles and reviews addressing innovative developments and valuable contributions to material science are welcomed, as are review articles summarizing the state of the art.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Micro-structure and mechanisms of novel building materials for disaster prevention and mitigation
• Implementation of novel building materials for hazard prevention and mitigation
• Experimental investigations of novel building materials for hazard prevention and mitigation
• Numerical studies of novel building materials for hazard prevention and mitigation
• Implementation of novel building materials for structural retrofit
• Novel building materials in project decision/risk analysis
• Novel building materials for rapid structural retrofit post-hazard