Recent Developments and Future Perspectives in Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems of Buildings: 2nd Edition
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: 20 December 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editor
Interests: evaporative cooling; building energy efficiency; district energy supply; gas supply
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a follow-up of the first Special Issue, entitled “Recent Developments and Future Perspectives in Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems of Buildings” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/special_issues/3577A9TG0W), published in Buildings.
HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning) system is crucial to achieve building energy efficiency and sustainability, human comfort, and welfare. The boom in the application of emerging technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelengience, digital twins, etc., and the growing emphasis on natural cooling driven by the demand for concentrated and large-scale energy use, as represented by data centres, have generated research interest in this field. Explorations of cooling and heating source technology, terminal conditioning technology, etc., that promot HVAC system operation and maintenance practices continues to deepen.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for the latest research progress in HVAC systems, evaluating the application of relevant theories and advanced technologies from a future perspective. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
HVAC system analysis;
Simulation and optimization of HVAC systems;
Advanced forecasting technologies for heating and cooling load and energy consumption;
Indoor thermal comfort and thermal adaptation;
IAQ (Indoor Air Quality);
Heat pump technology;
Dehumidification technology;
Data centre cooling;
Evaporative cooling;
BIPV (Building-Integrated Photovoltaics);
Low- or zero-carbon building energy systems;
Integrated energy systems for buildings;
Practices for energy efficiency of HVAC systems.
Prof. Dr. Peng Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- HVAC system and equipment
- building energy efficiency
- simulation and HVAC system optimization
- thermal comfort and indoor environment quality
- building energy consumption and load forecasting
- renewable energy in buildings
- data centre cooling
- artificial Intelligence (AI) application in HVAC systems
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