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Building Energy-Saving Technology—3rd Edition

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 August 2025 | Viewed by 1364

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Yaolin Lin

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School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
Interests: AI and HVAC control optimization; energy-efficient and healthy building design; carbon neutrality; zero-energy buildings
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Dr. Wei Yang

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Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia
Interests: thermal comfort; building energy management; sustainable building energy efficiency
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of the open-access journal Buildings is dedicated to “Building Energy-Saving Technology—3rd Edition”. Buildings consume about 40% of global energy, and the building sector thus plays a key role in achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. The development of various building energy-saving technologies for building envelopes, mechanical systems, and energy resources can assist in achieving zero or even net-zero energy buildings, while maintaining comfort and a healthy indoor environment.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest state of the art advancements and trends in advanced building energy-saving technologies. Original experimental studies, numerical simulations, and reviews on all aspects of building energy utilization, management, and optimization are especially encouraged.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • High-performance building envelope;
  • 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;
  • Carbon-natural building;
  • Adaptive building;
  • Application of AI in building control optimization;
  • Building embodied energy and lifecycle analysis.

Dr. Yaolin Lin
Dr. Wei Yang
Guest Editors

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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.

Keywords

  • building envelop
  • mechanical system
  • passive and zero energy buildings
  • HVAC system control
  • carbon neutrality retrofit
  • energy performance
  • lifecycle analysis
  • embodied energy

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Enhanced Heat Removal Using Buoyancy-Tracking Exhaust Vents for Moving Heat Sources in Industrial Environments: CFD and Experimental Study
by Zhongwu Xie, Wei Yin, Xiaoli Hao, Shaobo Zhang, Theofanis Psomas, Torbjörn Lindholm and Lars Ekberg
Buildings 2025, 15(10), 1719; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15101719 - 19 May 2025
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High-temperature and high-pollution mobile sources are frequently encountered in industrial environments. Fixed-position exhaust outlets often fail to promptly remove heat and contaminants when these sources are in motion, leading to local accumulation and reduced indoor air quality. This study proposes a novel mobile [...] Read more.
High-temperature and high-pollution mobile sources are frequently encountered in industrial environments. Fixed-position exhaust outlets often fail to promptly remove heat and contaminants when these sources are in motion, leading to local accumulation and reduced indoor air quality. This study proposes a novel mobile exhaust system capable of tracking and dynamically aligning with moving emission sources to improve heat removal and cooling efficiency. Three configurations were evaluated: (1) a fixed exhaust outlet, (2) an exhaust vent moving synchronously with the heat source, and (3) a buoyancy-driven tracking exhaust outlet. Small-scale experiments and CFD simulations using dynamic mesh techniques were conducted. The results showed that the synchronous system reduced ambient temperature by an average of 0.25 to 2.3 °C compared to the fixed outlet, while the buoyancy-tracking system achieved an additional 0.15 to 2.5 °C reduction. The study also introduces a correlation between thermal plume inclination and the Archimedes number, providing a predictive basis for exhaust positioning. Given the similar dispersion patterns of heat and airborne pollutants, the proposed system holds promise for both thermal management and contaminant control in dynamic industrial environments. Furthermore, the system may offer critical advantages in emergency ventilation scenarios involving intense heat or hazardous pollutant outbreaks. Full article
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Study on New Natural Ventilation Performance Based on Seat Air Supply in Gymnasiums
by Yinguang Wu, Wensheng Tang, Meng Wang, Yimin Wang and Qinli Deng
Buildings 2025, 15(10), 1600; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15101600 - 9 May 2025
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In recent years, China has continuously increased the construction of sports facilities, with the number and area of sports venues steadily growing. The use of more energy-efficient ventilation methods in gymnasiums has become one of the research hotspots. Taking a multi-functional gymnasium in [...] Read more.
In recent years, China has continuously increased the construction of sports facilities, with the number and area of sports venues steadily growing. The use of more energy-efficient ventilation methods in gymnasiums has become one of the research hotspots. Taking a multi-functional gymnasium in Wuhan as an example, the gymnasium adopts a seat air supply device driven by natural wind to enhance indoor ventilation. This study uses the methods of field measurement and CFD simulation to analyze the application effect of this new type of natural ventilation device in hot summer and warm winter areas during the transition season. Through CFD simulation of the ventilation performance of the seat air supply at different opening rates, the indoor ventilation effect and thermal comfort were analyzed. The application of the seat air supply greatly improved the indoor environment and enhanced the comfort of personnel. After turning on the seat air supply, the maximum temperature difference between the indoors and outdoors increased from 1.7 °C to 3.4 °C, the natural air intake rate increased from approximately 50% to approximately 70%, the wind speed in the seat area significantly increased, the uniformity of the wind speed field in the movement area significantly increased, and the proportion of areas with low wind speed and no wind speed decreased to 9.6%. The proportion of areas with wind speeds ranging from 0.3 to 0.5 m/s increased from 8.8% to 33.0%. At 10:00 a.m., the temperature at the indoor station was relatively low. The opening of the seat air supply device reduced the PMV value of the front seats by an average of 0.39. When the indoor platform temperature reached the maximum value, the impact of equipment activation on the PMV index of the seat area was relatively small, with an average reduction of only 0.19. The research results show that the application of a natural wind-driven seat air supply in sports venues is very promising, providing a new idea for the energy-saving renovation of gymnasiums and effectively promoting the development of low-carbon undertakings. Full article
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Systematic Review
A Systematic Review on the Research and Development of Adaptive Buildings
by Yaolin Lin, Ling Xu, Wei Yang, Lin Tian and Melissa Chan
Buildings 2025, 15(10), 1593; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15101593 - 8 May 2025
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Rapid urbanization and industrialization have led to great changes to the climate, such as global warming, urban heat islands, and frequent fluctuations in ambient temperature, and also a large amount of building energy consumption. Adaptive building provides an appropriate solution to maintain low [...] Read more.
Rapid urbanization and industrialization have led to great changes to the climate, such as global warming, urban heat islands, and frequent fluctuations in ambient temperature, and also a large amount of building energy consumption. Adaptive building provides an appropriate solution to maintain low energy consumption under various indoor and outdoor conditions and therefore has increasingly gained attention recently. Yet there is no clear definition on adaptive buildings and the current literature often focuses on the building envelope and overlooks buildings’ mechanical system, which is also an important part of the building system for responding to the indoor requirements and outdoor conditions. This article presents a systematic review on the research and development of adaptive buildings to address the identified research gaps. Firstly, it introduces and discusses the definition and evolution of the concept of adaptive building. Secondly, it reviews the adaptive building envelope technologies of roof, wall and window. Thirdly, it investigates the research progress on the adaptive mechanical system, especially lighting and air-conditioning systems. Lastly, it demonstrates practical applications of adaptive buildings and provides recommendations on future research directions on adaptive buildings. Full article
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