Synergistic Interactions Between Urban Climate and Building Energy System
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: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban climatic modeling; carbon neutrality scenario prediction; environmental suitability assessment; urban smart energy management
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Interests: urban climate; pollutant dispersion; sustainable green technology; outdoor thermal comfort
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the face of the huge threats posed by global climate change to human society and the ecosystem, the national strategy of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" emerged. Cities are confronted with multiple challenges such as frequent extreme weather events, increasing energy demand and rising pressure on environmental sustainability. Especially, urban climate continuously influences the supply and demand balance of urban energy systems and presents temporal and spatial heterogeneity due to the complicated functions and layouts of local-scale urban areas. Urban energy consumption and the corresponding carbon emissions, in turn, have also exacerbated urban climate changes such as global warming and urban heat islands. The coupling and interactions between energy-system optimization and climate-resilient urban construction have become a key factor in promoting urban sustainability.
Aiming at the goals of exploiting urban energy-saving potentialities, constructing climate-resilient cities and achieving carbon neutrality, this Special Issue welcomes all advanced mathematical descriptions, prediction technologies and optimization strategies of the synergistic interactions between urban climate and energy systems at multiple temporal–spatial scales, including but not limited to, the following topics:
- Multi-scale urban climatic modeling.
- Impacts of urban complex elements on urban wind and thermal environment, e.g., anthropogenic heat, blue and green space, building envelope characteristics and spatial layouts.
- Climate-related building energy-saving potential.
- Urban energy-system optimization in response to climate change.
- Local climate zone-based building energy consumption assessment.
- Multi-scale urban carbon-emission accounting regarding urban climate data.
- Spatial interactions between urban energy systems and urban climate indicators.
- Urban carbon-neutrality scenario prediction.
- Association analysis between urban climate change and social–economic systems.
- other new technologies in urban climate change, energy optimization and management and economical analysis, etc.
Dr. Lin Liu
Dr. Qing Wu
Dr. Puning Xue
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban climate
- local climate zone
- urban thermal environment
- building energy consumption
- energy-saving potential
- building integrated photovoltaics
- urban photovoltaic system
- carbon emissions and carbon neutrality
- energy supply and demand
- synergistic optimization
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