Buildings can develop lateral displacements, accelerations, and significant vibrations on structural and non-structural elements as well as discomfort of the occupants as a result of the frequent occurrences and magnitude of earthquakes and wind loads. For this reason, it is necessary to reduce or control the structural vibrations in naturally occurring hazardous environments in order to increase the wind and seismic performance of the buildings. Recently, research has suggested the use of energy dissipation devices to help to reduce the vibration or displacement of the wind load on civil structures. The most used devices are tuned mass damper, post-tensioned connections, buckling restrained braces, eccentrically braces, viscous fluid damper, viscoelastic solid damper, metallic damper, friction damper, and based-isolated, among others. The use of energy dissipation devices could be a good alternative to mitigate the effect of vibrations caused by earthquakes and wind loads and increase the structural performance of buildings.

This Special Issue is focused on recent advances toward the effective control of vibrations in buildings. We welcome articles that focus on new structural systems, new performance-based design methodologies of buildings, experimental behavior of energy dissipaters, or in general, the estimation of wind and seismic demands of buildings that have energy dissipation devices. In particular, the proposal of new energy dissipation devices and new structural systems aimed to control natural vibrations constitute the basis for this Special Issue. Note that review articles which describe the current state of the art are also welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Seismic demands of buildings
• Wind demand of buildings
• Experimental behavior of energy dissipaters
• New energy dissipation devices
• New structural systems
• Numerical simulation of energy dissipaters