G: Energy and Buildings
A section of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).
Section Information
The aim of Energies’ Energy and Buildings Section is to present new research results, and new proven practice aimed at reducing the energy needs of a building, improving building energy efficiency, and improving how energy is managed in buildings. Download Section Flyer
Example topic areas within the scope of our journal's Energy and Buildings Section are listed below. This list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive:
- Sustainable buildings
- Solar and other renewable energy sources in buildings
- Resilience and climate adaptability of buildings
- Green buildings
- Energy efficiency improvement measures
- Zero-energy, low-energy, and carbon-neutral buildings
- Life cycle energy efficiency of buildings and embodied energy
- Architectural structure - construction energy efficiency
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) of buildings
- Building physics as applied to energy
- Energy consumption in buildings
- Energy demands
- Prediction and validation
- Building total performance
- Building energy modeling
- Data science (AI, machine learning) for building energy management
- Building energy demand management
- District heating and cooling
- Heat recovery systems for buildings
- New building materials, including envelope materials
- Building energy storage
- Building environmental control
- Human health and comfort related to energy
- Lighting, acoustic, & other factors related to energy
- Model predictive control & other control strategies
- Building genome, other biological factors, & impacts on energy
- Intelligent buildings
- Smart cities
- Smart homes
- Smart technologies
- Building services for the smart grid
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Performance Evaluation, Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency in Buildings (Deadline: 30 May 2023)
- Solutions towards Zero Carbon Buildings (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Advanced Modeling and Optimization Technologies for Building Energy Efficiency (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Innovative Socio-Technical Paradigms for Low Carbon Transitions in the Built Environment (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Research in Building Physics and Renewable Energy (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Human Health in Buildings (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Application of Renewable Energy in Buildings (Deadline: 5 June 2023)
- Emerging Research on the Energy and Thermal-Hygrometric Optimization of Buildings and Related Systems (Deadline: 8 June 2023)
- Sustainable Heating and Cooling Technologies for Low-Carbon Buildings (Deadline: 12 June 2023)
- Buildings in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Automatics, Hydronics and Heat Pumps (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Low Carbon Energy Technology for Heating and Cooling of Buildings (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Optimization and Innovation of Energy Efficient Buildings and Smart Cities (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Energy Efficiency through Building Simulation (Deadline: 28 June 2023)
- Adaptive Thermal Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Advanced Energy Systems in Zero/Positive Energy Buildings, Communities and Districts (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Greening the Built Environment: Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Energy Maximum Utilization in Existing Buildings (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- New Trends in Sustainable Building Design and Energy Efficient Communities (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Internal Environment and Thermal Performance of Buildings (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Building Energy System Planning and Operation (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Climate and Low-Energy Buildings: Energy and Comfort Dynamic Modeling and Smart Monitoring (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Advanced Statistical Techniques and Modeling Methods for Assessing the Performance and Safety of Building Structures over Their Technical Life Cycle with Changes in Their Exploitation Conditions (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Selected Papers from Frontiers of Energy Management and Technology Innovation: Towards Zero Emissions (FEMTI 2021) (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Active Buildings: From Theory to Practice (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Advances in Building Energy Modeling and Simulation (Deadline: 10 July 2023)
- Fluid, Energy and Thermal Comfort in Buildings (Deadline: 15 July 2023)
- Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Volume III: Thermal Behaviour, Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Sustainable Construction (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Building Performance Simulation, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Resources for Buildings 2022 (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Development in Smart and Energy-Efficient Buildings and Renewable Energy Systems (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Building Thermal Environment and Building Energy Saving Technology (Deadline: 28 July 2023)
- Review Papers in Energy and Buildings (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- Integrating Sustainability and Community Resilience in Energy Infrastructures and the Built Environment (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- New Trends in Construction Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Buildings (Deadline: 10 August 2023)
- Indoor Climate Technology for Health and Comfort in Energy Efficient Buildings (Deadline: 10 August 2023)
- Smart and Innovative Solutions for Adaptive Facade Systems (Deadline: 16 August 2023)
- Frontiers in Indoor Acoustics and Thermal Comfort for Sustainable Buildings (Deadline: 17 August 2023)
- Dynamic, Adaptive Technologies for Thermal Control of Building Envelopes and Building Energy Efficiency (Deadline: 24 August 2023)
- Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applied to Energy Efficiency in Building Design (Deadline: 25 August 2023)
- Renewable Energy Systems for Buildings: Volume II (Deadline: 30 August 2023)
- Smart Materials and Methods for Green Buildings and Sustainable Environment (Deadline: 31 August 2023)
- Economic Analysis and Environmental Optimization for Building Energy (Deadline: 1 September 2023)
- Sustainable Built Environment and Its Circular Economy (Deadline: 5 September 2023)
- Challenges and Research Trends of Energy Efficient Buildings (Deadline: 6 September 2023)
- Advanced Technologies in HVAC Equipment and Thermal Environment for Building (Deadline: 6 September 2023)
- Smart Grid Integration of Zero Energy Buildings: Challenges and Perspectives (Deadline: 8 September 2023)
- The Future of Buildings: Technological Change to Protect Climate and Wellbeing (Deadline: 13 September 2023)
- Novel Research on Energy Audit and Energy Performance Management of Buildings and Processes (Deadline: 15 September 2023)
- Innovative Active and Passive Energy Systems for Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Urban Residential Development (Deadline: 15 September 2023)
- Building Energy Audits-Diagnosis and Retrofitting towards Decarbonization and Sustainable Cities (Deadline: 20 September 2023)
- Low-Carbon Building and City Strategies in Different Dimensions (Deadline: 20 September 2023)
- Energy Systems and Thermal Management for Sustainable Buildings (Deadline: 25 September 2023)
- Energy Efficiency of the Buildings Ⅱ (Deadline: 25 September 2023)
- Improvements in Building Thermal and Energy Behaviours towards Net Zero Performance (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Energy Saving Technology in Building (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Research on Low-Carbon Energy Buildings (Deadline: 6 October 2023)
- Challenges and Opportunities in Net-Zero Building Energy Efficiency Technologies (Deadline: 18 October 2023)
- Hygrothermal Design to Inform Durable and Sustainable Energy Efficient Buildings (Deadline: 18 October 2023)
- Thermal Assessment of Building Energy Systems: A Review approach (Deadline: 18 October 2023)
- Feature Paper Collection: Energy and Buildings (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Urban Microclimate Analysis on Buildings Energy Performance (Deadline: 25 October 2023)
- Sustainable Building Energy and Environment (Deadline: 25 October 2023)
- Energy Efficiency in Smart Buildings and Cities: Current and Future Digital Systems (Deadline: 30 October 2023)
- Advances in Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Built Environment (Deadline: 30 October 2023)
- Energy Conservation and Carbon Mitigation Technology of Buildings (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Energy Performance, Management and Recovery in Buildings (Deadline: 18 November 2023)
- Advances in Energy-Efficient Buildings II (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Volume II: Energy Efficiency Solutions and Indoor Environmental Quality in Zero-Energy Buildings (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Renewable Energy Systems for Sustainable Buildings (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Heat Pump System in Existing Building Stock (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Optimization, Design and Modelling of Building Energy Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Application of Renewable Energy Sources (Solar, Geothermal, Wind, Biomass and Hydro Energies) in Buildings (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances in Energy Efficiency and Conservation of Green Buildings (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Energy Efficiency of Buildings at the District Scale 2023 (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Development of Energy-Efficient Solutions for Smart Buildings (Deadline: 30 March 2024)
- Recent Advance in Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Transportation (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Bottom-Up Urban Building Energy Modelling II (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
