Advances in Building Energy Efficiency and Low-Carbon City Development
A Special Issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309) belonging to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 232
Editors
Interests: urban building energy modelling; urban low-carbon renewal; near-zero carbon park; building energy efficiency; artificial intelligence
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Interests: urban building energy modeling; building archetypes; reference buildings; energy-use profiling; clustering; urban energy systems; data-analysis; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Driven by growing global warming and frequent extreme weather events, carbon emissions reduction has become a global consensus and an urgent developmental imperative across all industries. The construction and building sector accounts for approximately 34% of global carbon emissions, serving as a major bottleneck restricting sustainable city development and the achievement of carbon neutrality targets. Massive energy consumption and intensive carbon output from traditional buildings highlight the necessity of energy-saving renovation and low-carbon upgrading.
This Special Issue focuses on frontier research spanning both building and urban scales. At the building scale, key topics include energy-saving renewal, energy-use profiling, renewable energy utilization, and flexible energy use. At the urban scale, areas of interest encompass urban building energy modeling, urban microclimate, low-carbon renewal, urban energy systems, green and blue infrastructure, and near-zero carbon park practices. This collection seeks to synthesize advanced theories and practical strategies, offering robust references for low-carbon buildings and sustainable cities.
Dr. Chao Wang
Dr. Martina Ferrando
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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-anonymized 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.
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Keywords
- urban building energy modeling
- building and urban renewal
- energy-use profiling
- renewable energy application
- flexible energy use
- urban energy systems
- urban microclimate
- green and blue infrastructure
- near-zero carbon park
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