Construction of Optimized Energy Potential

Construction of Optimized Energy Potential (CoOEP) has been published since 2012 as a journal with the ISSN 2299-8535 (print version) and e-ISSN 2544-963X (online version). Since 2020, the Journal publishes articles only in English language. CoOEP is Open Access Journal. Access to the content of articles placed in web side of journal is possible only on the base of Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA. In the years 2012-2023, the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license was valid. Leading scientific discipline is civil engineering, geodesy and transport. Other scientific disciplines are architecture and urban sciences, materials engineering, environmental engineering. The journal is currently annual. The owner of the journal is the Czestochowa University of Technology.

Aims

The journal "Construction of Optimized Energy Potential" presents the theoretical and practical problems of modern, sustainable, energy-efficient, energy-active and ecological civil and environmental engineering, which are currently one of the main trends in the design, realization and operation of buildings. Presented issues concern both to building constructions, materials and technologies, as well as architecture and urban, building installations, environmental protection and ecology. The use of modern materials and technologies gives the opportunity to save significant amounts of energy in both new and existing buildings, as well as reduce emissions, including carbon dioxide, which contributes to the decarbonization of buildings and the improvement of the natural environment.

The aim of the journal is to present the scientific and design studies carried out in the field of the above-mentioned topics containing perspective concepts of possible material, structural, installation, organizational, technological, economic and operational solutions in the area of sustainable and ecological civil and environmental engineering. The journal is directed to a wide circle of recipients who want to enrich their knowledge in the presented topics. We hope that the published content will contribute to raising the level of knowledge about building objects with low energy demand, minimizing material, energy and financial expenses for their implementation and exploitation, as well as protecting the natural environment and implementation of the idea of sustainable development in civil and environmental engineering.

Scope

Problems considered in publications of journal Construction of Optimized Energy Potential are:

• Sustainable and ecological construction,
• Theoretical and methodical foundations for design, construction and operation of facilities,
• Energy-efficient and energy-active architecture,
• Building constructions, materials and technologies,
• Ecological and modern materials in construction,
• Energy certification and energy auditing in civil and environmental engineering,
• Thermal modernization of buildings,
• Indoor microclimate and people's thermal comfort,
• Indoor environmental quality in buildings, indoor air quality in buildings.
• Building and human health,
• Building and urban acoustics,
• Room lighting in terms of energy efficiency,
• Effective use of energy in spatial planning,
• Efficient use of water and greenery in the urban space,
• Minimization of energy consumption in aerodynamics of buildings and urban areas,
• Renewable and alternative energy sources,
• Rationalization of heat and water demand and energy-saving ventilation and air-conditioning systems,
• Optimal design solutions in hydrotechnical facilities,
• Use of waste materials in sustainable construction.
• Management and quality of products and processes in civil and environmental engineering,
• Safety in civil and environmental engineering.

Publishing policy

• The CoOEP journal is currently an annual.
• The journal is published in electronic and paper versions.
• Articles for publication may be submitted throughout the year.
• The publication date of each volume is December of the given calendar year. However, individual articles from a given volume are successively posted on the journal's website as the processing of submitted manuscripts by the Editorial Office (initial assessment, reviews, language proofreading) and editorial preparation by the Czestochowa University of Technology Publishing House is completed, due to facilitating the possibility of Authors publishing in the journal prior citation their works.
• All articles in the journal CoOEP are published in full open access on the journal's website. Published content is available free of charge for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license, Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA).
• The Authors retain the copyright to their articles, but grant the Publisher the right of first publication, and other non-exclusive publishing rights. The journal's Editorial Office encourages all Authors to deposit only the published version of their work in the repository of their choice (e.g. Research Gate).
• The Authors are solely responsible for the substantive content of the presented study, its originality and information provided or any acknowledgements. The CoOEP journal adheres to the principles of ethics in scientific publications in accordance with the guidelines of the a Sciences of Academy Polish the Science in Ethics Committee and the Committee on Publication Ethics. Detected by Editorial and Scientific Board and Reviewers cases of scientific misconduct such as: plagiarism, ghostwriting or guest authorship will be disclosed and documented, including notifying the relevant institutions.
• The CoOEP journal belongs to the branch of engineering and technical sciences. The basic discipline presented is civil engineering, geodesy and transport. Other disciplines include architecture and urban planning, material engineering and environmental engineering.
• Articles inconsistent with the subject matter of the journal are not accepted.
• Submitted articles should be well formatted according to the instructions for Authors.
• Material prepared for publication in CoOEP should use correct English.
• The order of publication of individual texts is determined by the importance and relevance of the subject matter discussed and the order in which their publishing process is completed.
• In order to provide free access to readers and cover the costs of copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal management, an article processing charge (APC) PLN applies to papers accepted to publish after peer review.
• CoOEP is committed to supporting the transition of all research to fully open access, therefore we offer APC waivers or discounts. For Authors from low- and middle-income countries, waivers or discounts may be granted on a case-by-case basis. Applications submitted before article submission are assessed by the Managing Editor based on the quality of the research article and the Authors’ ability to pay.
• Sending an article is treated as an agreement to for its publication and placing it in an electronic version on the journal's website.
• Two independent Reviewers are appointed to evaluate each publication from outside the scientific unit affiliated by the Author of the publication. A double-blind review process applies. The procedure for reviewing articles is consistent with the indications of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The list of Reviewers' publications is available once a year on the journal's website.

Information on GDPR for Authors and Reviewers

Compliant with Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and Act on the protection of personal data.

• The Administrator of personal data of Authors and Reviewers is the Czestochowa University of Technology with headquarters in Czestochowa, ul. J.H. Dabrowskiego 69, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland (GDPR CUT).
• The data protection officer can be contacted via e-mail iodo@pcz.pl or by phone +48 34 3250471, + 48 34 3250418 in all matters relating to the processing of personal data by the Administrator and the exercise of rights related to data processing.
• Providing your personal data is voluntary, but necessary to achieve the objectives of publishing articles in the journal Construction of optimized energy potential.
• Each person, which data relate to, has the right to obtain information whether his personal data are processed and the right to access their content, and also the right to rectify or delete them, transfer them to another administrator, limit their processing, object to their processing, withdraw consent for their processing at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing that was carried out on the basis of consent given before its withdrawal, as well as obtaining information about the source of personal data, if they were not collected from the person they concern.
• Personal data entrusted to the Editors of the journal Construction of optimized energy potential will be processed solely for the purpose of carrying out tasks related to the evaluation and publication of articles in the journal.
• The planned period of storage of entrusted personal data is the period of activity of the journal.
• Recipients of personal data will only be those entities to which the personal data administrator is required to provide data under applicable law and entities processing personal data on behalf of the personal data administrator in connection with the performance of the task entrusted to them regarding the use of the journal under a contract, among others IT providers.
• Entrusted personal data will not be transferred to other institutions, organizations and business entities in the country and abroad.
• Entrusted personal data will not be subject to automated decision making, including profiling.
• Every person has the right to lodge a complaint to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, if considers that the processing of their personal data by the Czestochowa University of Technology violates applicable provisions of the GDPR (Personal Data Protection Office).

Publication ethics

Rules of ethics in publications

• Journal Constructions of Optimized Energy Potential adheres to the principles of ethics in scientific publications in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee of Ethics in Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Committee on Publication Ethics.
• The Editorial and Scientific Board work in accordance with a code of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal Editors.
• In accordance with the procedure for submitting, reviewing and publishing scientific papers in journals, the Editorial and Scientific Board require that Authors and Reviewers follow the guidelines for best practices related to ethical behaviour in scientific publications.
• The Editorial Board oblige the Authors to include in the article information on the substantive, factual or financial contribution of individual entities that contributed to the creation of the article and implemented projects under which the article was created.
• If there is a suspicion that submitted article is the result of scientific misconduct such as: plagiarism, ghostwriting or guest authorship, the Editorial and Scientific Board will take action to clarify the problem, and first ask the Author/Authors to respond to the allegations.
• In case of confirmation of scientific misconduct, the Editorial and Scientific Board will take further actions related to its disclosure, including notifying the relevant institutions.

Duties of Authors

• The Authors should ensure that the submitted article is original and does not infringe on the copyrights of other people, and if they used the work of other people, it was properly cited.
• Authors should make sure that they correctly recognize the work of others and should also cite publications that have influenced the nature of the submitted work.
• Information obtained privately by the Authors from a conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties cannot be used or reported without explicit written permission from the source.
• Authors should not use information obtained during the provision of confidential services, such as peer review or issuing opinions to applications for co-financing of works, unless they obtained the express written consent of their Authors.
• The Authors should ensure that the submitted article has not been published and is not foreseen for publication in another journal.
• The Authors should guarantee that they have appropriate authorizations from their employers and/or funding institutions to publish the research results.
• Authors should disclose all sources of financial support for work, including the grant number or other reference number, if there is one.
• Only persons who meet authorship criteria should be listed as Authors of the article, i.e. those who have made significant contributions to the concept, design, execution, data collection or analysis or interpretation of the study, have edited the article or corrected it for important intellectual content, seen and approved the final version of the work and agreed to submit it for publication.
• The Authors are responsible for the substantive content of the presented study.
• All those who have made a significant contribution to the work reported in the article, such as technical assistance, help in writing and editing, general support, but do not meet the criteria for authorship, cannot be listed as the author, but can be listed in the section " Acknowledgments "after their written acceptance to reveal their name and surname.
• Authors are required to cooperate in the process of evaluating the presented content, immediately responding to the requests and comments of the Editors or Reviewers.
• Authors should be prepared, if necessary, to provide all data related to their work.
• If the Authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their own published work, it is their duty to promptly notify the Editor of the journal and cooperate to correct errata or to apply for withdrawal of work.
• If the Editorial Board receive information from a third party that the published material contains a significant error or inaccuracy, it is the responsibility of the Authors to correct it immediately or to request the withdrawal of work.
• If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, Authors must clearly identify these in the article.

Duties of Reviewers

• If the Reviewer cannot, for various reasons, carry out the evaluation process of the article or knows that its quick verification will be impossible, he should reject the invitation to the review and immediately inform the Editorial Board so that the alternative Reviewers can be contacted efficiently.
• Any invited Reviewer who has a conflict of interest with any of the Authors or an institution related to the creation of the work should immediately notify the Editorial Board and refuse to carry out the review.
• The Reviewer should keep all information contained in the reviewed article confidential, should not show it or discuss it with other people unless authorized by the Editor-in-Chief. This also applies to Reviewers who rejected the invitation to participate in the review of the work.
• Reviewer must ensure that the Authors reveal all sources of data used in the study, any similarity between the content of the article and other published works should immediately report to the Editor-in-Chief.
• The Reviewer should evaluate the presented work in an objective manner and present the formulated comments in a clear manner along with supporting arguments, so that the Authors can use them to improve the submitted material.

Duties of Editors

• Editors are required to evaluate submitted articles irrespective of race, sex, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious beliefs, political philosophy or institutional affiliation of the Authors, publication decisions cannot be determined by government policy or any other agency beside the journal itself.
• The Editors guarantee that each article is initially evaluated only on the basis of criteria such as compliance with the subject matter of the journal, editorial preparation based on the instructions for Authors, required volume, work originality, information about duplicate work, information about non-infringement of third party copyright and the value the content of the article.
• After obtaining the initial acceptance, the Editors are obliged to refer the article to at least two Reviewers who are experts in a given field.
• Editors have the right to reject an article inconsistent with the subject matter of the journal, duplicate, prepared not in accordance with the instructions for Authors or a volume greater than required and an article that has not received positive reviews.
• If an article receives one positive and one negative review, the Editors are obliged to obtain an additional opinion.
• The Editor-in-Chief has a decisive voice regarding the editorial content of the journal and the date of publication.
• The Editor-in-Chief is ultimately responsible for making a decision which of the articles sent to the journal will be published, basing on approval of a given work, its relevance for researchers and readers, Reviewers' comments and legal requirements that are currently applied to defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
• Editors in the process of accepting and preparing work for publication cannot disclose information about the submitted article to anyone, except for the relevant Authors and Reviewers.
• Editors guarantee that they will not use unpublished information disclosed in the submitted material for their own research purposes without the express written consent of the author, the privileged information or ideas obtained by the Editors as a result of handling the manuscript are treated as confidential.
• In the case of a conflict of interest between one of the Editors and the Author of the article, the work will be evaluated initially by another Editor with whom there is no conflict of interest.
• The Editors will take appropriate actions when there are ethical concerns about the submitted material or published article, and any reported act of unethical publication behaviour will be considered and disclosed.

Duties of Publisher

• In the case of alleged or proven fraud, deceptive publication or plagiarism, the Publisher is obliged, in close cooperation with the Editors, to take action to clarify the situation and change the article, this includes prompt publication of errata, clarification or withdrawal of the work.
• The Publisher, together with the Editorial Board, is obliged to take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers in which scientific misconduct has occurred.

Code of Ethics for Researchers, Committee of Ethics in Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Ethics Toolkit for a Successful Editorial Office, COPE

Guidelines on Good Publication Practice, COPE

Guidelines on Good Practice Flowcharts, COPE

Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, COPE

Archiving

Sciendo archives the contents of this journal in Portico - digital long-term preservation service of scholarly books, journals and collections.

Plagiarism Policy

The editorial board is participating in a growing community of Similarity Check System's users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process.