Urban Sustainability and Digital Building Management

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid urbanization in modern society poses inevitable challenges in terms of the pollution of natural and built environments and shortages in energy. As the foundation of cities, buildings hold the key to sustainable development. The emerging trends of digitalization show new potential for innovative solutions to be used to improve the sustainability of buildings, communities, and cities. New multi-focal analyses and multi-disciplinary approaches can help people to better understand the complicated inter-relationships among energy efficiency, facility upgrades, carbon footprint, the microclimate, pollution, building mobility, and city management. This Special Issue, entitled “Urban Sustainability and Digital Building Management”, is dedicated to advancing the understanding of the abovementioned topics and provides an opportunity for researchers to originate, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas.

Dr. Yilong Han
Prof. Dr. Xiaodong Li
Dr. Jiayu Chen
Dr. Ruidong Chang
Dr. Qian Wang
Guest Editors

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