Section Editors
- Editorial Board
- A: Sustainable Energy Section
- A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids Section
- A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems Section
- A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy Section
- A4: Bio-Energy Section
- A5: Hydrogen Energy Section
- B: Energy and Environment Section
- B1: Energy and Climate Change Section
- B2: Clean Energy Section
- B3: Carbon Emission and Utilization Section
- B4: Nuclear Energy Section
- C: Energy Economics and Policy Section
- D: Energy Storage and Application Section
- D1: Advanced Energy Materials Section
- D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors Section
- D3: Nanoenergy Section
- E: Electric Vehicles Section
- F: Electrical Engineering Section
- F1: Electrical Power System Section
- F2: Distributed Energy System Section
- F3: Power Electronics Section
- F4: Critical Energy Infrastructure Section
- F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy Section
- F6: High Voltage Section
- G: Energy and Buildings Section
- G1: Smart Cities and Urban Management Section
- G2: Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage Section
- H: Geo-Energy Section
- H1: Petroleum Engineering Section
- H2: Geothermal Section
- H3: Fossil Section
- I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion Section
- I1: Fuel Section
- I2: Energy and Combustion Science Section
- I3: Energy Chemistry Section
- J: Thermal Management Section
- J1: Heat and Mass Transfer Section
- J2: Thermodynamics Section
- J3: Exergy Section
- K: State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies Section
- L: Energy Sources Section
Section Board for 'G: Energy and Buildings' (117)
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Interests: energy efficiency; buildings; heat transfer; thermal engineering
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Topical Collection in Energies: Demand Management for Buildings and Industrial Facilities

Interests: energy efficiency; energy audit; building energy simulation; highly efficient materials; renewable energy sources; BIPV
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Special Issue in Buildings: Energy Efficiency of Historical Buildings
Special Issue in Sustainability: Optimization of Energy Use in Buildings
Special Issue in Buildings: Thermal Performance of the Building Envelope — Original Methods and Advanced Solutions

Interests: building performance evaluation; thermal comfort; qualitative social research; environmental engineering; architectural engineering
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Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; renewable energy; HVAC systems; low energy technologies; energy access in least developed countries

Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; heat transfer; HVAC systems; thermal envelope; renewable technologies at the building scale; net zero-energy buildings
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Interests: green buildings; energy efficiency; NZEB; building performance; building materials; building acoustics; Life Cycle Assessment; embodied energy; embodied carbon; renewable energy systems; energy sustainability
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Special Issue in Sustainability: 15th CIRIAF National Congress – Environmental Footprint and Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: 16th CIRIAF National Congress – Sustainable Development, Environment and Human Health Protection
Special Issue in Energies: 16th CIRIAF National Congress – Sustainable Development, Environment and Human Health Protection
Interests: environmental and building physics; wind energy studies; solar radiation studies; building physics and energy saving studies; air pollution studies; experimental studies in the atmospheric boundary layer; the design of modern in-situ and remote sensing meteorological instrumentation

Interests: energy efficiency in buildings and cities; innovative and sustainable constructions and building; hydrothermal comfort; occupant behaviour; energy use in buildings; integration of green facades and roofs with renewable energy generation; ecological building materials

Interests: project and risk management; quality management; energy behavior change; building life cycle analysis; multiple criteria decision making
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Special Issue in Energies: Construction Project Management 2021

Interests: renovation of buildings; green and sustainable construction; sustainable supply chain management; energy behavior change; property management; multiple criteria decision making: applications in construction and real estate
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Special Issue in Energies: Innovations in Sustainable Architecture, Engineering and Construction
Special Issue in Energies: Construction Project Management 2021
Special Issue in Buildings: Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Construction: Resilience, Flexibility, and Innovation
Interests: heat and mass transfer; porous media; building energy performance; urban microclimate
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Interests: energy efficiency; sustainability; urban physics; nanotechnologies; acoustics; lighting
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Interests: heat transfer; nearly and net-zero energy buildings; building envelope; HVAC systems and equipment; renewable energy sources at the building scale; fire safety engineering
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Interests: energy efficiency; energy transition; energy economics; energy policy; sustainability
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Tourism Sector
Interests: flow control; model reduction; control theory; CFD; airflow modeling; energy efficient buildings

2. Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Interests: modeling, simulation and optimization of innovative building-plant systems, advanced building integrated envelope techniques, net zero energy buildings, renewable energies and innovative HVAC systems, solar heating and cooling systems, photovoltaic solar thermal systems, polygeneration, vehicle to building
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Special Issue in Energies: Solar Cooling and Heating 2018
Special Issue in Energies: Innovative Technologies for Buildings Energy Efficiency and NZEB Targets

Interests: sustainable buildings; passive technologies; computational fluid dynamics modelling; building energy simulation; thermal performance
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Special Issue in Energies: Selected Papers from the 9th Edition of the International SOLARIS Conference
Special Issue in Energies: Sustainable Buildings: Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning
Special Issue in Sustainability: Post COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reconsideration for the Built Environment

2. National Research Council, Institute of Nanotechnology (CNR-NANOTEC), Via Monteroni 73100, Lecce, Italy
Interests: chromogenics; semitransparent photovoltaics; building integration of innovative technologies; energy saving; visual comfort and daylighting; applied thermodynamics and thermal sciences
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Interests: energy engineering; on-site matching analysis; renewable energy; zero-energy building; energy storage technologies

2. Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
Interests: building environment and control; air quality and health; urban environment and design; fast prediction of built environment
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Topical Collection in Buildings: Creation of a Low-Carbon Healthy Building Environment with Intelligent Technologies
Topics: Building Energy and Environment

Interests: energy data analytics; intelligent buildings; coordinated building energy management
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Interests: building performance simulation; building physics; thermal comfort in transient and non-uniform environments
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Interests: life cycle assessment; Eco-Design; net zero energy buildings; environmental sustainability; energy policy; sustainable buildings; circular economy
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Interests: micro-CHP; building energy; carbon intensity; fuel cells; low-carbon fuels; renewable energy; hybrid power systems; grid resiliency; decarbonization
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Interests: green building; thermal comfort; natural ventilation; heat pump; renewable energy
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Special Issue in Buildings: Low-Carbon Buildings and Urban Energy Systems

Interests: human–building integration; indoor environmental quality; sustainable design; building energy efficiency; cyber-physical system; adaptive thermal comfort; bio-sensing adaptive environmental control; post-occupancy evaluation
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Special Issue in Energies: Advanced Environmental Controls for High-Performance Buildings and Sustainability
Special Issue in Sustainability: Human–Building Integration Research

2. School of Engineering Audit, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing 211815, China
Interests: construction and project management; building information modelling (BIM) and ICT for built environment; contract administration and dispute resolution; sustainability studies

Interests: civil & hydraulic engineering informatics; project quantitative analytics for sustainable engineering and the built environment; decision, risk, failure analysis & disaster management
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Special Issue in Energies: Forecasting and Optimization of Energy Use in Buildings
Special Issue in CivilEng: Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Interests: solar-thermal energy systems; membrane dehumidification; dew-point evaporative cooling; heat recovery systems; building energy management and total performance; tri-generation systems; quad-generation systems; poly-generation systems
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Interests: renewable energy; solar energy; heat pumps; energy storage; energy conservation in buildings; heat transfer in buildings
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Interests: heat transfer; energy efficiency in building; renewable energy technologies
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Interests: civil engineering; steel construction; structural engineering; steel structures

Interests: building physics; energy efficiency; thermal comfort; renewable energy; daylighting
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Advances in Historic Buildings Conservation and Energy Efficiency
Special Issue in Sustainability: Indoor Microclimate and Technical Systems in Historic Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities
Special Issue in Sustainability: Combined Energy and Seismic Renovation of the Building Stock: Technologies, Constraints, and Performances

Interests: design of systems for prestigious buildings; the energy efficiency of buildings; life cycle analysis for the sustainability of building materials, digital twins
Interests: process automation; soft-sensors; learning systems; energy efficient buildings; novel process development; pulp and paper; steel
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Interests: energy efficiency; zero-energy building; indoor environmental quality; sustainable buildings
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Interests: optimal design and operation of energy systems for building and districts; modeling (knowledge based, numerical and data-driven); (co-)simulation; multilevel optimization; uncertainties and robustness
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Interests: innovative and high efficiency fossil fired power generation systems; renewable energy systems; hydrogen and fuel cells; carbon capture and storage; energy saving in buildings and industry; tri-generation and polygeneration; energy efficient buildings; building integrated renewable energy systems; LCA (life cycle assessment) and carbon footprint studies
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Interests: materials for building; energy; sustainability; fuel cells; semiconductors
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Interests: computational intelligence and evolutionary computation; fuzzy systems; fuzzy control and modelling; fuzzy cognitive maps and petri nets in decision support systems; intelligent control; time series prediction; automation systems in renewable energy resources; intelligent energy management systems and smart buildings; design and management of autonomous smart micro grids; power electronics in photovoltaic systems; control electrochromic devices; modelling and control of reverse osmosis desalination
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Special Issue in Energies: Intelligent Control in Energy Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Intelligent Decentralized Energy Management in Microgrids
Special Issue in Algorithms: Algorithms for PID Controller 2019
Special Issue in Energies: Intelligent Control in Energy Systems Ⅱ
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Artificial Intelligence in Smart Buildings
Special Issue in Energies: Challenges and Research Trends of Computational Intelligence

Interests: Energy Efficiency in Buildings; Sustainable Energy Supply Systems; Renewable Energy; Energy Modelling; Zero-carbon Cities
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Interests: semantic technology; knowledge graphs; explainable AI; data value chain; social web
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Special Issue in Energies: Energy Efficiency in Smart Homes and Grids

Interests: thermal and mechanical measurements; legal metrology; flow measurements; building energy performance; energy metering and accounting; environmental pollution measurements; transmission and distribution energy networks
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Interests: facade engineering and design; building construction technologies; energy savings in buildings; local and global climate change and buildings
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Interests: thermal comfort; building performance; BIM; energy efficiency; building quality; facility management; risk analysis
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Interests: building simulation; energy efficiency, conservation and management; renewable energies; building integrated energy systems; hybrid energy systems; building HVAC systems and control; net-zero energy buildings and communities; adaptive, predictive and transactive control of building and community energy system
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Interests: buildings energy efficiency; building acoustic; air pollution; renewables energy; natural ventilation
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Interests: HVAC, refrigeration and building systems; simulation of energy in buildings; energy management; energy and environment; renewable energy systems
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Interests: building energy efficiency and sustainability; durability of building materials; numerical modelling of hygro-thermal and degradation processes in porous materials
Interests: energy in buildings; building performance simulation; density functional theory; electronic structure

Interests: control systems; smart houses; zero energy buildings; demand-side management; swarm intelligence; autonomous systems; sensor networks; cooperative systems; data analysis
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Interests: information fusion; knowledge representation; machine learning; energy efficiency
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Interests: energy-efficient and climate adjusted buildings; low-energy buildings; passive energy technologies (daylight, passive solar heat, natural ventilation, natural cooling); building physicsindoor climate; natural and mechanical ventilation

Interests: building energy management; energy storage systems; occupant behaviour; energy use in buildings; energy simulation; energy optimization

Interests: design of low energy buildings; indoor thermal comfort and air quality; urban microclimate modelling
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Interests: turbomachinery design (fan, pump); numerical simulation; renewable energy; refuse collection system; building ventilation

Interests: HVAC; renewable energy; desiccant cooling; radiant cooling and heating
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Interests: energy informatics; digital energy transformation; energy 4.0; smart energy systems; industrial energy symbiosis
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Special Issue in Energies: Recent Advances, Challenges and Open Problems in Building Energy Informatics
Special Issue in Energies: Artificial Intelligence for Smart Energy Systems

Interests: building energy; building environment and materials; eco-friendly materials
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Special Issue in Energies: Modeling, Control and Optimization of Hybrid Energy Systems for Climate Change
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Eco-Friendly Materials, Composites and Systems for Sustainable Development
Interests: energy efficiency; built environment; energy management; sustainability; renewable energy and environment protection; power systems; building simulation
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Interests: building energy analysis; heat and mass transfer; exhaust gas abatement systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: advanced building energy modeling; building energy efficiency; smart building energy technolgies; optimal controls; building integrated renewable energy
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2. Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, PO Box 12100 FI-00076 Aalto, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Interests: energy performance and indoor climate analysis of buildings and systems; low energy and nearly zero energy buildings; microbial growth and moisture safety aspects in buildings; innovative HVAC and energy systems and building simulation; technical definitions for NZEB buildings and energy calculation frames for regulation; sustainability assessment criteria and methods for buildings and construction
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Special Issue in Energies: Low and Zero Energy Highly Performing Buildings
Special Issue in Energies: Novel HVAC, Building Physics and Data-Centric Solutions for Energy-Efficient Smart Buildings and Sustainable Districts

Interests: energy-efficient buildings; green building design; building energy analysis; application of renewable energies in buildings; HVAC; heat transfer; phase change materials
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Special Issue in Energies: PCM Applications in Building Energy
Special Issue in Sustainability: Resilience in City and Rural Areas under Global Environmental Change
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Efficient Buildings and Green Buildings 2020
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Nanofluids Application in Heat Transfer
Interests: energy systems; energy in buildings; energy planning; sustainability
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Interests: learning; model estimation; hybrid systems; energy efficiency; performance efficiency

Interests: construction engineering and management; simulation and sensing; sustainability and energy; behavior and social influence
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Interests: energy engineering; applied thermodynamics, HVAC; energy performance of buildings; thermal management of vehicles; combined heat and power (CHP); heat recovery; heat pumps; Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC); energy systems modelling
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Interests: building energy research; US and international energy policy studies; environmentally friendly energy technology R&D; and indoor and urban/regional air quality and combustion research

Interests: 3D computer vision; pattern recognition; machine learning; shape matching and retrieval; Information retrieval; semantic search; smart building; building information modeling (BIM); digital geometry processing (DGP)
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Interests: urban decision making; energy transition; urban sustainability; cultural projects for development; transdisciplinarity; sustainable campus
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Interests: energy efficiency; energy districts; modelling; indoor air quality; thermal comfort in buildings; life cycle assessment
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Special Issue in Buildings: Advances in Sustainable and Smart Cities
Interests: energy renovation; one-stop shop; business model; business innovation; energy performance contract; district level renovation; household behavior; energy policy; transition management; role of local authorities
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Interests: renewable energy; concentrating solar photovoltaics; heat transfer, optics and electrical modeling; building integrated photovoltaics; static solar concentrators; integrated renewables (biomass, wind and solar integration); novel materials for solar electricity; solar electricity for sustainable building
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Special Issue in Energies: Solar Photovoltaics Trilemma: Efficiency, Stability and Cost Reduction 2017
Special Issue in Energies: New Generation Solar Cells: Stability, Scale up and Economics of Perovskite Solar Cells
Special Issue in Energies: Solar Photovoltaics Trilemma: Efficiency, Stability and Cost Reduction 2018
Special Issue in Energies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Integration of Solar Photovoltaics in Developing Countries

Interests: building physics; building services engineering; renewable energy technologies; data mining; operation research; analytics; sustainability transitions; energy transitions; open data; open science
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Special Issue in Energies: Open Data and Models for Energy and Environment

Interests: remote sensing; UAV; land cover; land use; sustainability; agriculture; land use; land change; energy; engineering; water
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Special Issue in Energies: Urban Generation of Renewable Energy and Energy Saving in Cities
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability in Mediterranean Climate
Special Issue in Coatings: Surfaces and Interfaces for Renewable Energy
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Saving at Cities
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Bibliometric Studies and Worldwide Research Trends on Global Health
Special Issue in Agronomy: Worldwide Trends in Agronomy Research: Bibliometric Studies
Special Issue in Inventions: Low-Cost Inventions and Patents
Special Issue in Land: Phoenician, Greek and Roman Colonization of the Mediterranean Basin and the Origin of Commercial Agriculture
Special Issue in Agronomy: Worldwide Trends in Agronomy Research: Bibliometric Studies – Series II
Special Issue in Inventions: Low-Cost Inventions and Patents: Series II
Topics: Emerging Technologies, Law and Policies
Interests: building science; building physics; modelling and numerical simulation of building heat; moisture transfer; fluid mechanics; CFD modeling; energy system and performance analyses; national and international building codes; design and development of test bench; assessment of a building envelope hygrothermal performance; building envelope’s energy and airtightness analysis; energy management;
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Interests: building sustainability; monitoring of experimental buildings and constructive systems; monitoring and simulation comparisons; thermal comfort; and passive and active techniques
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Special Issue in Energies: Advanced Buildings Thermal Monitoring Ⅱ

Interests: thermodynamics; modeling of energy systems; energy optimization; energy efficiency; building performance simulation; building optimization; energy retrofit; sustainable design; cost-optimal analysis; energy policies
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Building Retrofit and Energy Optimization
Special Issue in Buildings: Addressing Sustainable Building Design: Combining Energy and Structural Optimization
Special Issue in Energies: Building Energy Simulation & Artificial Intelligence: a Way toward a Sustainable Built Environment

Interests: heating and air conditioning systems; thermal-hygrometric characteristics of the building envelope; energy efficiency in buildings; nearly and net zero energy buildings; plus zero energy buildings
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Interests: ecodesign; energy; renewable energy technologies; life cycle assessment; net zero energy buildings
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: assessment & rehabilitation of essential facilities; bridges & electrical substations; concrete, masonry & wood structures; earthquake engineering; energy-efficiency, sustainability & resiliency of structures; fracture & damage mechanics; experimental methods including hybrid simulations; performance & health monitoring of structures using machine & deep learning

Interests: FRP composites; structural health monitoring; green buildings, sustainable repair & rehabilitation of structural systems, renewable energy
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Special Issue in Buildings: Reliability Assessment and Sustainable Rehabilitation of Structural Systems
Interests: renewable energy technologies; energy efficiency in building; energy efficiency in industrial processes; passive cooling

Interests: building physics; building services engineering; building simulation; renewable energy technologies; indoor environmental quality; open data & energy analytics; energy efficiency; zero energy buildings; power-to-X solutions; buildings, district and national energy systems
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Special Issue in Energies: Procedures and Methodologies for the Control and Improvement of Energy-Environmental Quality in Construction
Special Issue in Energies: Open Data and Models for Energy and Environment
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Consumption in a Smart City
Special Issue in Energies: GIS and Remote Sensing for Renewable Energy Assessment and Maps

Interests: construction engineering; civil engineering; energy efficiency; fluent mechanics; ventilated facades; heat and mass transfer; building energy modeling (BEM)
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Interests: civil and structural engineering; disaster mitigation; security and protective engineering; sustainable buildings and infrastructure
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Interests: thermodynamics; biomass; renewable energy; energy; air pollution; acoustics; building acoustics; sustainable architecture; lighting; green roof; cool roof; thermo-fluid dynamics; heat transmission; well-being condition; energy renovation; involved in International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) - Unified Glare Model CIE TC 3-57
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Adaptation to Global Change: Modeling and Decision Support Tools in Urban Planning
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Building Materials and Energy-Efficient Buildings
Special Issue in Sustainability: The Application of Renewable Energy in Sustainable Architecture II
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Environment and Health

Interests: heating and cooling of buildings - thermodynamic and economic analysis of innovative air conditioning systems, numerical simulations of air conditioning and ventilating systems performance; energetics - energy saving in civil and industrial buildings, thermodynamic, economic and environmental analysis of power systems, renewable energy for civil and industrial applications; thermo-fluid-dynamics measurements - innovative flow rate measurement devices; industrial local ventilation devices
Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; co-benefits; energy flexibility; plus energy buildings; NZEB; IEQ; thermal comfort; personal comfort systems
Interests: building physics; building energy performance; building performance simulation; urban simulation; indoor environmental quality; weather data for building simulation
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Special Issue in Energies: Applications of Building Energy Performance Simulation

Interests: sustainable buildings; building design; building envelope; energy performance; indoor environmental quality; thermal comfort; air quality; daylight; building physics; building performance simulation; energy-flexible buildings; demand response; smart buildings

Interests: building energy simulation; life cycle assessment; ecodesign; energy performance
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Interests: systens for heating and coolin; energy in buildings; increase of storage materials’ capibilities; sustentability: economy and environment; heat transfer models and applications
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Interests: adaptive thermal comfort; occupant behaviour; thermal environment; energy saving; traditional vernacular building
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Interests: energy and buildings; efficiency of building envelope components; environmental impacts; indoor performances of buildings; heritage buildings renovation; heritage buildings indoor physical parameters; energy efficiency of transportation systems; environmental impact of transportation systems; energy planning
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Interests: sustainability; thermal behaviour and energy efficiency of buildings; lightweight steel framed (LSF) construction; construction safety management; boundary elements method
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Special Issue in Buildings: Buildings' Thermal Behaviour and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction
Special Issue in Energies: Volume II: Thermal Behaviour, Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Sustainable Construction
Special Issue in Energies: Volume III: Thermal Behaviour, Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Sustainable Construction

Interests: refrigeration and heat pump systems; solar energy conversion and storage; energy efficiency and energy savings; thermal comfort and environmental quality; water and heat distribution systems; numerical simulations and optimizations in building services
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Interests: buildings; HVAC; renewables integration into buildings; automotive; optimization; control
Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; renewable energy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: alternative (renewable) energy sources modeling and automation; production systems automation; decision support systems; systems safety and reliability analysis; real-time industrial processes fault monitoring and diagnosis; building energy management systems
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Interests: energy use in buildings; building energy management systems; renewable energy; embodied energy; sustainable construction; project management; smart buildings; smart cities; internet-of-things; decision support systems; applied Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Interests: building performance optimization; net-zero energy; smart buildings; passive design; energy efficiency; thermal comfort; high-performance materials; whole-building hygrothermal performance; building integrated renewable systems; life-cycle assessment
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Special Issue in Designs: Integrated Sustainable Building Design, Construction and Operation
Special Issue in Energies: Optimization of Building Thermal and Indoor Air Quality Performance

Interests: building integrated energy system; operation optimization of HVAC system; building and urban climate
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Interests: eco-efficient construction and building materials; mechanical properties; construction and demolition wastes; embodied energy; construction materials biotech base; geopolymers; bio inspired construction materials; alkali-activated cement-based binders (AACB); concrete durability; concrete nanotechnology; industrial waste recycling; civil engineering
Interests: design and optimization of high performance buildings; daylighting; building envelopes and dynamic facade systems; indoor environmental quality; building simulation

Interests: civil engineering; operations research; energy efficiency; project management; sustainability; building information modeling
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Interests: energy engineering; energy systems; heat transfer
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: building energy energy performance; building science; building energy systems; comfort/occupant behavior
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Interests: energy conservation in buildings; heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning technology; geothermal and air-source heat pump; renewable energy heating system
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Interests: building energy efficiency; renewable energy system; sustainable technologies for China’s rural communities; indoor air pollutant sources and control technologies

Interests: indoor environmental quality and performance (thermal environment, air environment); energy analysis and conservation (low-cost and high-efficiency heating systems, building energy analysis); building systems (analysis for the design of HVAC systems, system design and analysis of plumbing systems, automatic control)
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Interests: low-grade heat utilization; new types of heat pumps; energy saving; carbon neutralization; energy storage technology
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Interests: energy efficiency of building plant system; nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB); building envelope; radiant systems; high efficiency HVAC integrated systems; thermal comfort; renewable energy; ground source heat pump systems; urban energy modelling; modelling and development.
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Zero Energy Buildings: From Building Energy Simulation to Indoor Environment Monitoring
Special Issue in Energies: Multi-Source Energy Systems for the HVAC of Buildings
Special Issue in Energies: Shallow Geothermal Energy in Densely Inhabited Areas

Interests: operations research; optimization and decision analysis; multicriteria decision making; multiattribute decision making (MADM); decision support systems; civil engineering; energy; sustainable development; fuzzy sets theory; fuzzy multicriteria decision making; sustainability; management; game theory and economical computing knowledge management
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Special Issue in Symmetry: Civil Engineering and Symmetry
Special Issue in Information: Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management
Special Issue in Symmetry: Solution Models based on Symmetric and Asymmetric Information
Special Issue in Sustainability: Multi-Objective and Multi-Attribute Optimisation for Sustainable Development Decision Aiding
Special Issue in Symmetry: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques for Improvement Sustainability Engineering Processes
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management
Special Issue in Energies: Uncertain Decision Making Methods in Energy Policies for Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Symmetry: Symmetric and Asymmetric Data in Solution Models
Special Issue in Symmetry: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques for Improvement Sustainability Engineering Processes II
Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy for Machine Learning and Complex Systems Toward Regional Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Symmetry: Symmetric and Asymmetric Data in Solution Models, Part II
Special Issue in Energies: Moving towards Digitalization in Building Energy Modeling
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management: Enablers of Change, Part II
Special Issue in Algorithms: Multiple Criteria Decision Making Algorithms in Engineering and Management
Special Issue in Symmetry: Algorithms for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making under Uncertainty

Interests: building and environment; energy

Interests: energy efficiency of buildings; sustainable construction; multiple criteria decision making; building construction technology and organisation
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