The Application of Renewable Energy in Sustainable Architecture II

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that, following the success of the first volume (https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Energy_Architecture), we are now hosting Volume II of the Special Issue on “The Application of Renewable Energy in Sustainable Architecture”.

In recent times, the world has become increasingly aware of the significant potential of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) as a replacement for non‐renewable fossil fuel energy. The adoption of building integration of RES can fundamentally change the design methodologies that affect residential and commercial buildings throughout the world. Consequently, architects will have to deal with architectural integration issues. The application of renewable energy in sustainable architecture is the result of a controlled and coherent integration of the new technologies from all points of view: functional, constructive and aesthetic. The building has to fulfill a wide and complex set of protection and regulation functions, requiring the use of different structures, components, and HVAC systems. The integration of RES systems in buildings should be studied very carefully from a sustainable development angle.

This Special Issue aims to contribute an outstanding collection of both research and design practice papers on the integration of renewable energies in sustainable architecture in different climates around the world.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Nocera
Prof. Dr. Luigi Alini
Guest Editors

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• integration renewable energy resources (biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, heat pump)
• sustainable architecture
• nearly zero energy buildings
• passive buildings
• smart buildings
• building-integrated PV/thermal (BIPV/T)
• building-integrated PV (BIPV)
• building-integrated solar thermal (BIST)
• green buildings
• building codes and standards
• building certification
• HVAC
• co-generation, trigeneration, poly-generation
• insulation
• storage
• technical and economic potentials
• cost and benefits
• footprint
• LCA analysis