The general call for abstracts has invited proposals as single contributions dealing with a broad range of construction history topics as well as to be included in thematic sessions. Topics cover a broad range of construction history subjects (construction determinants and their relation with design, extraction and processing of materials, site management, works execution processes, knowledge transfer, actors, machines, tools, building legislation, construction – politics, economy and society, etc. Proposals can approach these subjects from any time period (from ancient times to the 20th century), have any geographical scope (local to intercontinental) and discuss any type of buildings and structures (e.g. vaults; shells; spatial structures; trusses; bridges; industrial/residential/public/religious; stadiums and pavilions; military constructions; infrastructures and public works). Thematic sessions are the result of a previous successful call collecting a significant number of proposals from senior and young researchers coming from all over the world (New Zealand, Australia, China, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Portugal, United Kingdom, Belgium, Russia and Switzerland) aiming to cover important problematics, historical periods and different regions of the globe.

After the Abstract Review Process, if your proposal was selected for a paper presentation at the congress, you are now invited to submit a paper to be evaluated during the Paper Review Process. Papers presented at the congress will be published in the 7ICCH Proceedings, which will be available at the conference. 7ICCH Proceedings will be published and printed by CRC Press / Balkema (Taylor & Francis Group) and sent to multiple indexing services The official language of the conference is English. All proposals must be submitted in English and all presentations must be delivered in English. Translation and interpreting services will not be available.

Authors are encouraged to give great attention to the English grammar level of their own proposal texts and submitting them after being previously checked by a native English speaker. Texts poorly written in English will be refused by reviewers.

Maximum number of proposals by participant: Each participant can take part in a maximum of 2 paper proposals: one as first author and another as a co-author. Papers whose first authors and co-authors are the same as those of another two proposals already submitted will not be accepted.

The maximum number of pages of the two column paper is 8. The minimum number of pages of the two column paper is 6.

The deadline to submit full papers is 17 December 2020 (New Date). Your paper will be again subjected to a blind peer review. You will be notified about the (conditional) rejection or acceptance of your paper in February 2021. In order to be included in the proceedings the registration fee needs to be paid until 1 March 2021. Only one full paper per first author registration will be accepted.