Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Sustainable Building Performance
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 May 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine Learning; artificial Intelligence; system automation; decision support system; visualization
Interests: brick masonry; hygrothermal simulation; building envelope; circularity; building physics; durability; moisture damage; probabilistic analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial intelligence is gaining an increasingly important role in the building sector, offering new possibilities to improve performance, reduce energy consumption, and strengthen resilience throughout a building’s life cycle. This Special Issue focuses on advanced AI-driven methods, tools, and frameworks that support sustainable building performance at material, component, and whole-building scales. Particular attention is given to applications related to Building Physics, including machine learning for predictive modelling, AI-based optimization for energy and moisture management, hygrothermal performance assessment, and intelligent building envelope design. Contributions that combine physical simulation, data-driven analytics, uncertainty quantification, and decision-support systems are welcomed. The aim is to collect high-quality research demonstrating how AI can enhance sustainability through improved durability, circularity, operational efficiency, and climate-adaptive building control.
Dr. Kourosh Ahmadi
Dr. SeyedMohammad Kahangi Shahreza
Guest Editors
Dr. Amirhosein Moshari
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- applied artificial intelligence in buildings
- sustainable building performance
- building circularity
- AI in building physics
- hygrothermal simulations
- moisture and mould problems
- building envelope performance
- AI in energy efficiency
- probabilistic performance assessment
- zero-energy and low-carbon buildings
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