Sustainable Building Technologies: Equipment Performance, Built Environment, and Building Retrofit

Dear Colleagues,

Against the backdrop of climate change, accelerating urbanization, and the growing demand for occupant health, buildings are increasingly expected to achieve a coordinated improvement in both energy efficiency and healthy indoor environments. Sustainable building technologies play a central role in meeting these expectations by advancing integrated, evidence-based solutions that improve building performance while supporting occupant health and well-being across the building life cycle.

In engineering practice, the development of sustainable buildings requires coordinated efforts across multiple dimensions, including the enhancement of building system and equipment performance, the optimization of indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and the renovation and upgrading of existing building stocks. Research in this field spans innovations in HVAC systems and heating and cooling sources, optimization of building envelope performance, indoor thermal comfort and air quality, intelligent control and operational optimization, as well as building retrofit solutions targeting human well-being. Current research trends increasingly emphasize deployable technological pathways, quantitative performance evaluation, and validation in real-world applications, rather than remaining at the level of conceptual design.

This Special Issue of Buildings, titled “Sustainable Building Technologies: Equipment Performance, Built Environment, and Building Retrofit”, welcomes high-quality original contributions and high-impact works related to the above-stated topics.

Dr. Xinbo Xu
Dr. Xue Zhai
Dr. Guoquan Lv
Guest Editors

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