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Advances in Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Built Environment

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 1689

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CEPAC–Center for Studies in Heritage, Landscape and Construction, Civil Engineering Department, Universidade do Algarve, Campus da Penha, 8005-309 Faro, Portugal
Interests: building rehabilitation; sustainable construction; net zero energy buildings (NZEB); intelligent buildings
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CEPAC–Centre for Studies in Heritage, Landscape and Construction, Civil Engineering Department, Instituto Superior de Engenharia, University of Algarve, Campus da Penha, 8005-309 Faro, Portugal
Interests: sustainable building materials; sustainable construction; maintenance and sustainable rehabilitation of buildings
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Department of Graphic Expression and Building Engineering, Higher Technical School of Building Engineering, University of Seville, Av. Reina Mercedes 4A, 41012 Seville, Spain
Interests: health buildings; sustainable building; diagnosis in buildings; thermography infrared applications; legality in buildings; virtual reconstruction; patents and innovation in buildings technologies; graphic design; energy efficiency; buildings technology; graphics; drawing
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CEris—Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, Lisbon University, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: building energy; sustainable built environment; sustainable construction; life cycle assessment; energy life cycle; rehabilitation and sustainability
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit your most recent research related to building energy efficiency in new buildings or in rehabilitation processes and/or sustainable built environments for this Special Issue entitled "Advances in Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Built Environment".

New or existing buildings and the built environment must look for sustainability paths. The progress achieved in recent years must be continued in the present day as part of the constant search for sustainability, contributing to a better environment and providing an economic and social balance.

Built environments have a large ecosystem impact. Scientific and technical communities must improve energy efficiency in buildings, contributing to sustainable built environments for the next generation.

The main goal of this Special Issue on “Advances in Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Built Environment” is to reflect on this question and to propose sustainable solutions to new or existing buildings, as well as to urban areas.

This Special Issue aims to collect excellent contributions and high-impact papers that identify and discuss better approaches, tools, solutions, and exemplar case studies that assess these advances in buildings and urban areas.

Contributions from academia, designers, industry and managers that allow a broad perspective and wide-ranging approaches and discussions on building energy efficiency and/or sustainable built environment areas are welcomed. Papers submitted to this Special Issue are of interest if they cover the above-mentioned areas.

Prof. Dr. Fatima Farinha
Dr. Miguel José Oliveira
Dr. David Bienvenido Huertas
Prof. Dr. David Marín García
Dr. Manuel Duarte Pinheiro
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Keywords

  • building energy efficiency
  • built environment
  • netzero energy
  • rehabilitation
  • sustainability

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Research on Low-Carbon Building Development and Carbon Emission Control Based on Mathematical Models: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province
by Dingjun Chang and Shuling Tang
Energies 2024, 17(18), 4545; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17184545 - 10 Sep 2024
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This paper investigates the development of low-carbon buildings and carbon emission control in Jiangsu Province, China, utilizing a mathematical model. Through correlation analysis and principal component analysis, the carbon emissions of the entire life cycle of residential buildings are evaluated, and a Grey [...] Read more.
This paper investigates the development of low-carbon buildings and carbon emission control in Jiangsu Province, China, utilizing a mathematical model. Through correlation analysis and principal component analysis, the carbon emissions of the entire life cycle of residential buildings are evaluated, and a Grey Prediction Model is established. The study shows that the annual carbon emission from air conditioners is 370.92 kg, given an annual electricity consumption of 1324.71 kW and a carbon emission of 0.28 kg per kWh. It identifies the key carbon emission indicators, including precipitation, temperature, energy consumption, building area, construction materials, water, natural gas, and waste. Principal component analysis ranks building area as the most significant factor. Using the GM (1,1) model, the carbon emissions of Jiangsu Province in 2024 were predicted to be 1.5576 million tons by historical data. Emission reduction suggestions are proposed, such as constructing thicker walls, increasing green spaces, reducing construction waste, and promoting balanced economic development. Moreover, prioritizing insulation materials in building design can reduce winter energy consumption since energy consumption is higher in winter than in summer. This research supports China’s goals of achieving a carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 while encouraging low-carbon technological innovation and improving people’s living standards. This study also emphasizes the importance of locally tailored strategies for effective emissions reduction. Full article
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Energy Communities and Electric Mobility as a Win–Win Solution in Built Environment
by Joana Calado Martins and Manuel Duarte Pinheiro
Energies 2024, 17(12), 3011; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17123011 - 18 Jun 2024
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Recently, there has been an increasing effort to promote energy efficiency, using renewable energies and electric mobility to achieve a more sustainable future and even carbon neutrality by 2050. This paper aims to understand if combining these technologies leads to a win–win solution. [...] Read more.
Recently, there has been an increasing effort to promote energy efficiency, using renewable energies and electric mobility to achieve a more sustainable future and even carbon neutrality by 2050. This paper aims to understand if combining these technologies leads to a win–win solution. For that, the system’s characteristics that will be used for the simulation were defined as a residential community consumption scenario with and without electric vehicles charging overnight. The simulation was completed in software, and eight scenarios were tested: high population density/low population density with/without electric mobility and hourly tariff/simple tariff. After these scenarios had been tested, the conclusion was that the low population density and hourly tariff without and with electric mobility were the best two cases economically (in terms of levelized cost of energy, net present costs, and savings) and environmentally, and the worst was high population density with hourly tariff and electric mobility. Other scenarios were then tested, including changes in the load curve, namely a commercial load curve, and changes in the load curve of electric vehicle chargers, mainly daytime charging. The conclusion was that even though the initial hypothesis did not lead to a win–win solution, with changes in the hypothesis, the integration of electric mobility in energy communities might lead to that. Full article
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