Energy Management in Building Services and Components to Reach Net Zero Energy Buildings

Dear Colleagues,

Proper energy management is essential for increasing energy efficiency and reducing energy waste, and for pursuing the goal of net zero energy buildings. As is the case for many countries, the building sector accounts for about 40% of total energy consumption, and thus is one of the most energy-intensive sectors. Hence, analysis and studies on a proper energy management of building services and components are essential to find solutions and methodologies, scalable and applicable in different contexts.

Based on these considerations, this Special Issue aims to collect applications, simulations, and analyses of energy management in building services and components capable of contributing to the objective of net zero energy buildings. The purpose is to gather and share the most widespread solutions and to identify innovative and promising applications for improving the energy management of buildings with the aims of energy efficiency and savings.

Therefore, studies on innovative solutions (the use of innovative materials and plant systems, storage systems, BACS for new buildings and the retrofitting of existing buildings) and applications of energy management components (studied with dynamic simulations, new calculation methods and/or monitoring campaigns) are welcome in this Special Issue, entitled ‘Energy Management in Building Services and Components to reach Net Zero Energy Buildings’. We encourage colleagues to submit research papers, short communications, and reviews on the following topics, such as include (but are not limited to):

• Energy and environmental impact analysis of innovative management applications and high-energy-performance buildings;
• Energy and thermal properties measurement and analysis of innovative materials capable of significantly contributing to the net zero energy buildings objective;
• Renewable energy sources and storage systems applications, HVAC monitoring and analysis, and BACS system applications;
• Simulations for enhancing Net ZEB management using different approaches (BIM, artificial neural network, CFD, and so on);
• Buildings retrofitting and indoor environmental quality investigation.
• We also welcome extended abstracts in advance for any inquiries about relevant and covered topics.

Dr. Domenico Palladino
Dr. Silvia Di Turi
Guest Editors

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• innovative materials applications
• net zero energy buildings
• energy communities
• indoor environmental quality
• existing and / or historical buildings retrofit
• innovative energy management solutions and applications
• thermophysical properties measurements
• case studies simulations (i.e., dynamic, BIM, artificial neural networks, CFD, etc.)
• HVAC monitoring
• optimization for energy saving
• renewable energy sources
• storage systems applications
• BACS systems
• water and waste reuse