Novel Technologies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims at reporting emerging trends in research activities dealing with novel technologies for energy efficiency, contributing to address the compelling challenges of climate change and fossil fuel depletion. It is well known that the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change following the COP 21 Conference on Climate Change, organized by United Nations, required the States to reduce carbon emissions in the building stock. In the European Union, almost 50% of final energy consumption is used for heating and cooling; out of this huge amount, 80% is used in buildings. Consequently, the priority is to enhance energy efficiency by exploiting renewable energies and innovative technologies, especially deriving from recent achievements in the field of nanomaterials research, with special reference to building integration of novel technologies.

This Special Issue will therefore deal with novel materials and devices (from chromogenics to semitransparent photovoltaics, OLEDs, super insulating materials, phase change materials, passive radiative cooling strategies, etc.), providing consistent improvements for construction or plant components within the building organism.

This new Special Issue—hosted by the scientific journal Buildings—aims to garner excellent contributions and high-impact works trying to assess the effectiveness of novel materials and devices on the final energy uses of cities and buildings.

Dr. Alessandro Cannavale
Dr. Marco Pugliese
Dr. Fabrizio Mariano
Guest Editors

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