Indoor Acoustics and Thermal Comfort for Sustainable Buildings
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 December 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phase change materials; acoustics; power generation; mechanical engineering; waste energy recovery
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Interests: energy-efficient buildings; nearly zero-energy buildings; energy storage; advanced materials; nanotechnologies; phase change materials; climate change; resilient buildings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
These days, the concept of “sustainable building” is gaining increasing interest. The European plan on climate change, the general situation regarding global pollution and the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, as well as the increased comfort expectations of building occupants are all driving the idea of urban development aimed at combating climate change.
The United Nations estimates that by 2050, about 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, which means that a correct design of urban environments is more necessary than ever: this is needed in order to minimize the consumption of water and energy, as well as to create living spaces that are both comfortable and free of pollution, be it acoustic, aquatic or in the air.
Designing only in accordance with current regulations means designing a building that is already obsolete from a thermodynamic and acoustic point of view. Standards related to the insulation of nZEB and passive houses, which are already compliant with or able to meet future requirements, are highly recommended.
The advent of new, sustainable, and highly efficient thermo-acoustic insulating materials, the development of modern numerical methods and software for the computer-aided design of whole-building physics, as well as state or local incentives for increasing building efficiency are all aspects that make this Special Issue a real opportunity to showcase cutting edge and pioneering scientific research on these topics.
Prof. Dr. Davide Borelli
Prof. Dr. Umberto Berardi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal comfort
- indoor acoustics
- sustainable buildings
- new materials
- building retrofitting
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