The European Research Area has now become a reality. The prime objective of the EJECE is to fully document advances in International scientific and technical research in the fields of sustainable construction and soil engineering. In particular regard to the latter, the environmental preservation of natural media (soils and rocks) and the mitigation of soil-related risks are now not only major societal challenges, but they are also the source of scientific and technical developments that could be extremely beneficial.Areas covered by the EJECE include rheology of geomaterials (cement, soils, rocks), natural media (muds, snow, ice, etc.) and granular materials, soil-fluid-structure interactions and their coupling with temperature, chemistry (degradation, etc.) and time (durability, ageing, etc.), computation and design of structures and engineering works. The new experimental facilities and measurement tools (metrology and sensors in laboratories and in the field, etc.) and the characterizing of displacement fields and of micro-meso-structures of materials (scanner, tomodensitometer, etc.) give rise to major innovations which concern thus primarily the EJECE. Finally the numerical methods (finite differences, finite elements, discrete elements, particulate methods, etc), which constitute obviously the bases of the modelling and of the computation of structures and engineering works, fall completely in the interest area of the Journal.

歐洲的研究領域現在已經成為現實。EJECE的主要目標是全面記錄可持續建設和土壤工程領域國際科學和技術研究的進展。特別是在后者方面，自然介質（土壤和巖石）的環境保護和與土壤有關的風險的緩解現在不僅是重大的社會挑戰，而且也是可能極其有益的科學和技術發展的來源。EJECE覆蓋的區域包括土工材料（水泥、土壤、巖石）、天然介質（泥、雪、冰等）和顆粒材料的流變學、土壤-流體-結構相互作用及其與溫度、化學（降解等）和時間（耐久性、老化等）的耦合、結構和工程的計算和設計。新的實驗設施和測量工具（實驗室和現場的計量和傳感器等）以及位移場和材料微觀細觀結構（掃描儀、層析密度計等）的特征化，引發了主要關注EJECE的重大創新。最后，數值方法（有限差分法、有限元法、離散元法、微粒法等）顯然構成了建模和結構和工程計算的基礎，完全屬于期刊的關注領域。