Strategies for Green Building, Ventilation Efficiency and Fire Protection
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: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 168
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fire safety technology for urban underground space; low carbon performance of buildings and green energy utilization; smoke control; building ventilation; underground space; energy conservation; life cycle carbon emission
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: ventilation; energy conservation; life cycle carbon emission; sustainability; smoke control
Interests: ventilation; building; indoor air quality; passive contaminant; airflow distribution; thermal comfort
Interests: building information modeling; digital construction; information management; sustainability; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the the building construction industry heading in low-carbon, green, safe and intelligent directions, how to exactly to ensure thermal comfort while reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in the building environment has attracted people's attention. For both aboveground or underground buildings, the airflow organization formed by building ventilation, including mechanical ventilation and natural ventilation, is very important for indoor environments and for maintaining a safe evacuation environment for personnel in fire scenarios. In the development process of green and low-carbon buildings, ventilation is crucial for reducing energy consumption during operation stages and carbon emissions throughout the entire building life cycle. It is therefore worth exploring ways to improve people's understanding of the relationship between energy conservation and carbon reduction in buildings and human comfort, safety and health.
The main aim of this Special lssue is to explore the recent challenges and developments of strategies for green building, ventilation efficiency and fire protection. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Balance between thermal comfort and energy conservation or carbon emission;
Impact of building ventilation on the performance of low-carbon buildings;
Carbon emission reduction strategy in building operation stage;
Ventilation system and smoke control in aboveground green buildings;
Ventilation and smoke control in underground space buildings;
Machine learning on thermal comfort prediction for building;
CFD and BIM technologies for building ventilation system.
Dr. Yanfeng Li
Hua Zhong
Dr. Xiaoliang Shao
Dr. Marzia Bolpagni
Dr. Youbo Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building ventilation
- air distribution
- smoke control
- green building
- carbon reduction
- CFD simulation
- thermal comfort
- energy conservation
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