Based on the 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21), which was held online on the 28th and 29th June 2021, this special series collates the highest quality contributions from the ICMB21 in order to act as an archive of this focussed academic gathering. The whole conference programme and details of individual presentations can be found at https://icmb21.exordo.com/programme/at-a-glance.

Moisture in buildings is a field of study with direct, tangible and wide-ranging implications on many areas including climate change mitigation/adaptation, built environment decarbonisation, and health and wellbeing. With the aim of bringing together and consolidating the unusually interdisciplinary research community around this topic, the ICMB21 was held on the 28th and 29th June as the very first event of a biannual conference series organised by the UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings (UKCMB): https://ukcmb.org.

Series Editor

Dr Yasemin D. Aktas, Lecturer, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE), Faculty of Engineering Science, UCL, UK and Deputy Academic Director, UKCMB

Guest Editors

Dr Hector Altamirano, Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), UCL, UK; Academic Director, UKCMB
Dr Valentina Marincioni, Lecturer, UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), UCL, UK; Technical Director, UKCMB
Dr Peter Rickaby, Principal Research Associate, UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), UCL, UK; Business Manager, UKCMB
Colin King, Commercial Director, UKCMB

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