Building Energy-Saving Technology

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of the open-access journal Buildings that will be dedicated to “Building Energy-Saving Technology”. Buildings consume about 40% of global energy; therefore, the building sector plays a key role in achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Various building energy-saving technologies on building envelops, mechanical systems, and energy resources can help to achieve zero or even net energy buildings, while maintaining comfort and a healthy indoor environment.

This Special Collection aims to present the current state-of-the-art progress and trends in advanced building energy-saving technologies. Original experimental studies, numerical simulations, and reviews in all aspects of building energy utilization, management, and optimization are welcome to this Special Collection.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• High-performance building envelop;
• Passive and zero-energy buildings;
• HVAC system control optimization;
• Building energy retrofit;
• Building energy, exergy, and economic analysis;
• Building embodied energy and life cycle analysis;
• Renewable energy allocation;
• Vertical and roof greening system;
• High performance ventilation system;
• Adaptive climatic responsive building design;
• Building energy, exergy, and economic analysis;
• Building embodied energy and lifecycle analysis.

Dr. Yaolin Lin
Dr. Wei Yang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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.