Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to a Special issue of Energies on the subject area of “Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits”.

The circular economy promotes the activities of preserving the building value in the form of energy, material, and labor with the aim to close the gap between production and natural ecosystems’ cycles. Building energy retrofit plays an important part in fostering the circular economy through integrating circular energy strategies and new technologies to lower buildings’ energy consumption and operating costs. The process of building energy retrofitting involves numerous decision-making processes and has a significant impact on environmental, social, cultural, and technological aspects of urban development in human society.

A scientific and valid assessment scheme, mechanism, algorithm, or methodology dedicated to building energy retrofit evaluation helps organizations to identify problematic as well as good practices that affect energy efficiency. An effective and useful decision-making tool is also conducive to rationalizing human decisions in building energy retrofit projects. Due to the variation of climate condition, urban setting, social policies, built environment design, etc. in different countries or regions, various types of evaluation approaches are adopted for building energy retrofit. In this Special Issue, we welcome studies related to building energy retrofit evaluation methods or approaches, including but not limited to lifecycle costing and assessment, econometric models, multicriteria analysis, and decision-making tools.

Dr. Cynthia Hou
Dr. Joseph H.K. Lai
Guest Editors

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