New Technologies and Designs in Reducing Building Energy Consumption While Improving the Market Value
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 2832
Special Issue Editors
Interests: real estate market; property valuation; finance; land use; architecture; restoration
Interests: real estate; property valuation; building energy efficiency; design; architecture; restoration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How can new and smart technologies be integrated in the built environment to reduce energy consumption and reach widespread zero energy buildings (ZEB) standards? How may such interventions affect the market value of a property after a deep retrofit?
The concept of smart adaptation of an organism to the external environment takes inspiration from nature, since living organisms possess the ability to change in response to external stimuli in order to maintain their internal comfort. The use of smart and new technologies in the field of architecture is rather recent, where the idea of “smart” usually refers to materials and technologies that are highly engineered, able to respond in an intelligent way to the changes of the external environment, as well as to vary their properties, structure or form, so as to maintain certain internal comfort conditions.
Reaching ZEB standards represents both an environmental and economic challenge that can be achieved only through very accurate energy consumption forecasts, specific life-cycle analyses, economic projections, and proper on-site management of the buildings, and new technologies are essential in this panorama.
During the use of a building, multiple factors may hinder the achievement of ZEB goals, such as improperly scheduled HVAC systems, occupant behaviour and habits, or system failures. Additionally, during the design process, building energy simulations should be based on reliable assumptions. This is because incorrect boundary conditions can lead to systematic and significant overestimation/underestimation of the energy consumption and the cash-in/out flows.
In fact, to produce reliable building energy programs, it is important to evaluate optimal design configurations, primarily through optimization procedures involving both financial and energy assessments. Optimization strategies and life cycle analyses should also increase the feasibility of the retrofit options, economically and technically.
This Special Issue is therefore dedicated to the use of new and smart technologies during the design and management of a building to achieve ZEB goals and the most economically profitable investment possible. The aim is to explore assessment models, optimized calculation procedures, measurement devices, smart platforms, and software or guidelines for the building energy design and facility management with the aim of reaching ZEB quality and the optimal allocation of the available financial resources.
Dr. Laura Gabrielli
Dr. Ruggeri Aurora Greta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building energy retrofit
- new technologies
- smart buildings
- project management
- economic feasibility
- life cycle analysis
