Topical Collection "Encyclopedia of ZEMCH Research and Development"
A topical collection in Encyclopedia (ISSN 2673-8392).
Editors
Interests: ZEMCH Network; zero energy mass custom home design engineering; environmental experience design analysis; mass personalisation; machine learning; value analysis; vertical subdivision plug-in housing system
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Interests: building automation; ecological design; universal design; smart home; vernacular architecture; wooden architecture; life cycle assessment
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Interests: mass customisation; lean construction; design management; BIM; social housing development; healthcare projects
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Interests: building performance and simulation; indoor environmental quality; passive design; sustainable architecture; architectural engineering; urban regeneration; building information modelling; healthy buildings
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Interests: green architecture; emerging technologies and material; sustainable environment; green building performance measurement; thermal comfort; indoor air quality; dementia care facilities; climate change adaptation; community engagement
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Interests: building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV); solar photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) system; building energy conservation; vacuum insulation material
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Interests: human factors in the built environment; green architecture; high performance architecture; building occupant behaviour and energy; retrofitting; resilience
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Interests: retrofitting; renewable energy; innovative technology; indoor environmental comfort; lighting system; sustainability planning; architectural design
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Interests: building sustainability; retrofit; adaptive reuse
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Interests: traditional housing; socio-economic sustainability; sustainable built environment; habitat design; building performance evaluation; energy efficient building
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Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to this ZEMCH design engineering knowledge depository, in which the term ZEMCH stands for zero energy mass custom home. Designing built environments is influential. Homes need to be mass-customised to accommodate today’s diverse needs and demands of individuals and societies for humans’ sound living conditions and activities. Social justice and climatic change within built environments in global contexts are a significant part of ZEMCH R&D action. Due to growing housing needs and demands, the global market required the initiation of the ZEMCH R&D movement so as to ensure the delivery of socially, economically, environmentally, and humanely sustainable built environments to privileged and unprivileged families, communities, and nations that are sharing our common future.
This Collection aims to encompass a wide spectrum of ZEMCH research and development knowledge that concerns design engineering, construction management, material innovation, renewable energy technology, community planning, marketing strategy, and education.
Dr. Masa Noguchi
Prof. Dr. Antonio Frattari
Prof. Dr. Carlos Torres Formoso
Prof. Dr. Haşim Altan
Dr. John Odhiambo Onyango
Prof. Dr. Jun-Tae Kim
Prof. Dr. Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul
Dr. Mehdi Amirkhani
Prof. Dr. Sara Jane Wilkinson
Prof. Dr. Shaila Bantanur
Collection 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-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Encyclopedia is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- zero energy mass custom home
- sustainable community
- design engineering
- construction technology
- marketing strategy
- value management
- planning analysis
- prefabrication
- housing affordability
- occupant health and wellbeing
2021
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Sustainable Architecture – What’s Next?
Author: Harald Røstvik
Professor, City- and Regional Planning, Institute of Safety, Economics and Planning (ISØP), Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, Norway
Title: Age-Friendly Built Environment
Authors: Hing-Wah Chau, Elmira Jamei
Built Environment Discipline Group, College of Engineering and Science, Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Title: SEM-PLS Approach to Green Building
Authors: Nasim Aghili 1 and Mehdi Amirkhani 2
1. School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, Faculty of Health, Engineering, and Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
2. ZEMCH EXD Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Title: Domestic Environmental Experience Design
Author: Sajal Chowdhury
ZEMCH EXD Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Title: Low Cost Neighbourhood Development in Brazil
Authors: Luisa Félix Dalla Vecchia and Nirce Saffer Medvedovski
Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Title: Solar Chimney
Authors: Haihua Zhang, Yao Tao and Long Shi
School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
Title: Sustainable Built Environment
Authors: Lars-Åke Mikaelsson
Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Title: Vertical Plug-in Micro-compact Housing Systems
Authors: Yee Kee Ku and Masa Noguchi
Affiliation: ZEMCH EXD Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Building and
Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Title: Mass Customisation in Low Cost Housing
Authors: Carlos T. Formoso, Patrícia A. Tillmann, and Cynthia S. Hentschke
Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Title: Green Buildings Rating Systems (GBRS)
Authors: Stefano Politi, Lia Marchi and Ernesto Antonini
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy





