Research on Building Performance Simulation for Optimized Indoor Environmental Quality, Comfort, and Energy Efficiency
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: indoor environmental quality; thermal comfort; energy efficiency; building performance simulation; building monitoring; fuel poverty
Interests: building energy performance modelling; building physics; indoor environmental quality; urban energy modelling; building climate resilience
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Indoor environmental quality in buildings has gained in the last years greater attention of researchers because of its impact, not only on people comfort but also on people productivity and performance. Many studies have applied multi-objective optimization to include comfort objectives besides energy saving constraints to find out the best retrofit or new design solutions. However, discrepancies between indoor environmental quality prediction and people perception in the real environment, at an operational stage is yet an open research question.
This Special Issue focuses on exploring innovative approaches in Building Energy and Comfort Simulation to increase the spatial granularity of the model giving a quite reasonable accuracy in the perception prediction and allowing to inspect the influence of contextual factors on local indoor parameters that influence occupants’ comfort. Contributions are invited on a wide range of topics, including HVAC control systems, thermal comfort modelling, daylight modelling, application of innovative tools and algorithms. Additionally, studies on building energy, thermal comfort, acoustic, daylighting modelling calibration, validation and optimization are welcome.
Researchers are encouraged to submit papers, short communications, and reviews demonstrating the capabilities of simulation tools and innovative solutions in building energy and comfort simulation.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Francesca Cappelletti
Dr. Ilaria Ballarini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building performance simulation
- indoor environmental quality
- building energy modelling
- thermal comfort
- model calibration
- daylight modelling
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