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Smart Building Materials and Designs for Sustainable Built Environment

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 December 2024 | Viewed by 2090

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Kishor Zingre

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Architecture and Built Environment, University of Northumbria, Newcastle NE1 8ST, UK
Interests: bioinspiration; heat transfer; energy efficiency; simulations; sustainability; built environment
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to promote a debate on the recent advances in and future challenges for smart building materials and designs that aim to achieve a sustainable built environment. We invite international researchers to share their recent achievements in the development of smart building materials and novel (bioinspired and non-bioinspired) designs and their application at the scale of a building or city. Reviews of the current state of the art and proposals for the implementation of advanced materials and technologies in creation of a sustainable built environment are welcome. The primary topics covered within this thematic cover the following aspects:

  • building material development;
  • building material properties;
  • bioinspired materials;
  • bioinspired designs;
  • heat transfer mechanisms;
  • energy estimation and analysis;
  • micro-climatic analysis;
  • urband heat island effect;
  • optimisation;
  • low-carbon buildings;
  • net-zero energy buildings;
  • thermal comfort;
  • computational simulations;
  • experimental measurements.

The above list of topics may not be exhaustive. As such, researchers should feel free to submit contributions on any additional topic that could be relevant to the field of sustainable built envrionment.

Dr. Kishor Zingre
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • building materials
  • heat transfer
  • low carbon
  • thermal comfort
  • built environment

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An Investigation of Globe Temperature in Street Canyons: A Scaled Model Study Implementing Cool Materials
by E. V. S. Kiran Kumar Donthu, Shashwat Shashwat, Kishor T. Zingre, Seshadhri Srinivasan and Man Pun Wan
Buildings 2024, 14(10), 3054; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14103054 - 25 Sep 2024
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The measurement of globe temperature (GT) is essential for investigating pedestrian thermal comfort in street canyons. The globe thermometer is the most common instrument used to measure GT; however, its application in scale models has not been thoroughly investigated to date. Therefore, this [...] Read more.
The measurement of globe temperature (GT) is essential for investigating pedestrian thermal comfort in street canyons. The globe thermometer is the most common instrument used to measure GT; however, its application in scale models has not been thoroughly investigated to date. Therefore, this study explicitly investigates globe thermometer measurements in scale models and analyzes the need for customization of the globe thermometer for more reliable measurements. Scaling down with respect to the size of the globe thermometer and the effect of solar orientation/envelope materials are investigated in this study. The initial experiments were carried out in an outdoor setting using a typical street canyon model (scale 1:100) with an east-west street orientation. The results of the experiment are presented to compare a low solar reflectance street canyon (albedo of 0.4) and a high solar reflectance canyon (albedo of 0.6) in terms of surface temperatures, heat flux, and globe temperature. It is observed that although the wall and road surface temperatures are lower for the high solar reflectance canyon compared to those for the low solar reflectance canyon, the GT (measured at pedestrian height) is higher in a high reflectance canyon during the daytime, which could be due to the combined effect of direct radiation and short-wave reflection. However, for the hours after sunset, a reverse effect is observed, i.e., the GT becomes lower (up to 0.8 °C) in the case of a high reflectance canyon compared to that for the low reflectance canyon. Furthermore, the study emphasizes the impact of solar reflectance of canyon surfaces on GT values, due to the view factors that the globe thermometer on those surfaces. Full article
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Research on the Influence of Open Underground Space Entrance Forms on the Microclimate: A Case Study in Xuzhou, China
by Ping Chen, Lufeng Nie, Jinrun Kang and Heng Liu
Buildings 2024, 14(2), 554; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14020554 - 19 Feb 2024
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With urban development and renewal, underground space is becoming more utilized. The design and use of open underground public space entrances and exits have become more and more frequent. As a pedestrian passage connecting indoors and outdoors, the wind and thermal environment of [...] Read more.
With urban development and renewal, underground space is becoming more utilized. The design and use of open underground public space entrances and exits have become more and more frequent. As a pedestrian passage connecting indoors and outdoors, the wind and thermal environment of open entrances have a great impact on human comfort. This paper investigates the open underground space entrances and exits in Xuzhou. Physical environments such as temperature and wind speed were measured. Through numerical simulation, the influence relationships between the spatial form elements of open entrances and exits and microclimate and thermal comfort were investigated. This study showed that there are four common spatial morphological elements of open entrances and exits. The physiologicafl equivalent temperature (PET) of the outdoor part of the entrance is the highest in summer, and the lowest in winter, and the PET is most affected by the shape of the opening plane and the aspect ratio, which are linearly related. The trends of the spatial morphology elements were not consistent when seeking the optimal situation of PET in summer and winter, respectively. The relationship between the spatial form elements of entrances and PET established in this study provides technical guidance for the design of open entrances, which can help improve environmental quality and enhance human comfort. Full article
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