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Energy Performance in Sustainable Architecture Design
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Energy Performance in Sustainable Architecture Design

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: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 3064

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ingliang Wong

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School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
Interests: energy efficiency design; passive solar design; energy benchmarking; daylighting design; energy simulation; whole-life costing; renewable energy; sustainable design
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Buildings contribute to significant carbon emissions around the world. In an effort to reduce carbon emission in the sector, sustainable architecture designs have been widely implemented in the building sector. A wide range of sustainable building designs have emerged in the past around the world to mitigate the environmental challenges in various regions. However, co-ordinations and more detailed studies are urgently required to ascertain the effectiveness of each of these architecture measures/ designs in achieving their aims, i.e., reducing environmental impact. Energy consumption in the building sector has been highly regarded as a key issue to be addressed. The move from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources for implementation in buildings has been recognized as a way of improving the energy performance and environmental aspect of built environments.

This Special Issue aims to extend the analysis on the energy performance of various types of sustainable architecture design measures by focusing discussions on the following areas (among others):

  1. State of the art of sustainable architecture designs and technological measures;
  2. Energy-efficient passive design approaches;
  3. Sustainable building materials;
  4. Whole-life cycle analysis;
  5. Experimental and simulation analysis of designs/measures;
  6. Sustainable architecture designs for all types of building applications;
  7. Energy performance studies of designs/measures.

Dr. Ingliang Wong
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • building energy
  • sustainable building
  • architecture design
  • energy performance
  • energy efficiency 
  • sustainable design
  • sustainable architecture 
  • energy consumption 
  • renewable energy 
  • built environment
  • building material

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The Reduction of Embodied Carbon in Steel Structures Through the Implementation of Control Systems
by Carlos Mauricio Patlán Manjarrez, Hugo Hernández Barrios and Dayana Pérez Rodríguez
Buildings 2025, 15(3), 482; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15030482 - 4 Feb 2025
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The rapid expansion of global infrastructure has amplified the environmental impact of construction, particularly through the carbon footprint of structures. Addressing this challenge, this study examined the potential of vibration control systems to reduce the carbon footprint of steel-frame buildings subject to dynamic [...] Read more.
The rapid expansion of global infrastructure has amplified the environmental impact of construction, particularly through the carbon footprint of structures. Addressing this challenge, this study examined the potential of vibration control systems to reduce the carbon footprint of steel-frame buildings subject to dynamic wind loads. Utilizing the Force Analogy Method (FAM), which effectively addresses nonlinearity in structural analysis, the research modeled a 10-story steel frame subjected to synthetic downburst wind time history velocities generated through spectral simulation techniques. Both passive and active control systems were implemented, with a focus on tuned mass dampers (TMDs) and active mass dampers (AMDs) to reduce structural displacements and accelerations. The results revealed that these systems not only significantly reduce the peak structural responses but also, when combined with optimized manufacturing methods, lead to a decrease in steel usage. This optimization contributes to a reduction of up to 20% in CO2 emissions during the pre-use stage of a building’s lifecycle. By enhancing the material efficiency and minimizing the environmental impacts, this research highlights the critical role of advanced control systems, supported by new nonlinear analytical methods, in promoting environmentally conscious engineering. This approach aims to guide future generations in developing structural engineering projects that prioritize sustainable practices. Full article
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Study on the Coupling of Air-Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs) and Passive Heating in Cold Regions
by Feipeng Jiao, Guopeng Li, Chunjie Zhang and Jiyuan Liu
Buildings 2024, 14(8), 2410; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14082410 - 5 Aug 2024
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Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs), as an active device, are widely used in building heating and cooling processes. However, in severe cold regions, they face reduced heating efficiency and frosting problems in winter. This paper proposes a new heating solution by coupling an ASHP [...] Read more.
Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs), as an active device, are widely used in building heating and cooling processes. However, in severe cold regions, they face reduced heating efficiency and frosting problems in winter. This paper proposes a new heating solution by coupling an ASHP with passive heating systems. It combines an ASHP with passive sunrooms and heat storage systems for heating. Through software simulations and mathematical modeling, the new scheme is compared and analyzed against traditional ASHP solutions to explore the performance of this scheme in rural houses in severe cold regions of China during winter. According to simulation and calculation analysis, on the coldest day of winter, the coupling scheme can provide approximately 99.41 kWh of heat to the indoors, which exceeds the 86.67 kWh required to maintain an indoor temperature of 20 °C. The system’s power consumption is 36.96 kWh, which is 66.88% lower than that of traditional heat pump heating. The study shows that the coupling system of an ASHP and passive heating has a good heating effect in severe cold regions. For the situation of insufficient solar energy at night, the design of phase-change materials and heat storage media can meet heating needs throughout the day. Full article
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