Energy Performance Prediction and Validation in Green Buildings
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2024 | Viewed by 132
Special Issue Editors
Interests: facade engineering and design; building construction technologies; energy savings in buildings; local and global climate change and buildings
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: architectural engineering; building energy efficiency; building simulation; green building; building technology; sustainability; energy modeling; facade engineering; indoor environmental quality
Interests: architectural engineering; building design; building energy efficiency; building energy prediction; building simulations; school buildings; life cycle cost analysis; climate change impacts
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The role of the building sector in combating climate change issues has increasingly gained the attention of the scientific community towards constructing green buildings as an effective measure to reduce building impacts, with significant benefits to society and the economy.
Overall, the term “green building” lacks a clear and unequivocal definition, moving from narrower definitions (referring to purely environmental sustainability) to broader definitions (including economic and social aspects). In the existing literature, the dominant approach to analyse green buildings involves comparing with a traditional building, highlighting the benefits from an environmental perspective (in terms of improved energy efficiency), an economic perspective (in terms of economic savings associated with improved performance), and a human perspective (in terms of improved indoor environmental conditions). Undoubtedly, building energy efficiency is one of the crucial issues addressed in green building research, although closely related to the other aspects. However, technological advancements provide manifold technologies that can be implemented in green buildings, whose study is becoming increasingly complex, requiring the implementation of proper procedures to study their effectiveness and thus adequately predict their performance. Moreover, the unavoidable changes in climatic conditions could also be explored, as the resulting changes in the building operational boundary conditions may affect their energy behaviour. Finally, validating the actual performance of green buildings still appears to be difficult to address, posing a significant obstacle to our understanding of their actual operational behaviour, and thus the actual benefits that these types of buildings provide.
This Special Issue intends to cover a broad range of research topics related to energy performance and validation. It aims to present recent research that addresses key questions, academic and industrial challenges, and comprehensive solutions, ultimately aimed at improving energy efficiency measures in green buildings.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Green building design;
- Digitalization for green buildings;
- Building performance simulation and energy efficiency;
- Thermal comfort in green buildings;
- Green building certifications;
- Life cycle analysis or life cycle cost analysis for green buildings;
- Innovative technologies and materials for green buildings;
- Methodologies and tools for performance prediction;
- Methodologies and tools for model validation;
- Renewable systems integration;
- Green buildings in changing climates.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Fiorito
Dr. Francesco Carlucci
Dr. Ludovica Campagna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green buildings
- zero-carbon buildings
- energy efficiency
- thermal comfort
- sustainability
- building performance simulation
- climate change
