Advanced Building Technologies for Energy Savings and Decarbonization
This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The building sector is one of the primary consumers of energy. Since decarbonization and electrification are our new goals, new and/or advanced building operation strategies or building equipment are needed to maintain or improve indoor environmental quality while minimizing building energy consumption.
The aims and scope of this Special Issue are to introduce advanced building energy technologies, measurement and verification approaches, and fault detection and diagnosis methods using simulation and/or experimental studies to minimize building energy consumption, reduce CO2 emissions, and improve indoor environmental quality.
To achieve the goals of this Special Issue, we welcome submissions from interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary professional areas, such as computer science, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering, in collaboration with building science and architecture researchers.
We welcome the submission of research that presents views on the utilization of new and advanced technologies in various professional areas to save energy, reduce CO2 emissions, and improve indoor environment quality in buildings.
Dr. Piljae Im
Dr. Yeobeom Yoon
Dr. Sungkyun Jung
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building energy
- building energy simulation modeling
- experimental study
- energy-efficient technologies
- advanced control
- HVAC systems
- indoor environmental quality
- building control optimization
- fault detection and diagnosis
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Published Papers
Buildings - ISSN 2075-5309