Special Issue "Climate and Low-Energy Buildings: Energy and Comfort Dynamic Modeling and Smart Monitoring"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 April 2022.
Submit your paper via: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=energies
and select the Journal “Energies” and the Special Issue “Climate and Low-Energy Buildings: Energy and Comfort Dynamic Modeling and Smart Monitoring”.
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Special Issue Editors

Dr. Giacomo Chiesa
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Guest Editor
Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
Interests: bioclimatic design; architectural technology; performance-driven design and operation; sustainable design; climatic architecture; passive cooling/heating; free-running buildings; smart technology integration; low-energy buildings; urban microclimate
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Dr. Michal Pomianowski
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Guest Editor
Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: ventilation and airflow in buildings; energy in buildings; cooling; heat storage; thermodynamic properties; phase change materials; district cooling; district heating

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Climate and Low-Energy Buildings: Energy and Comfort Dynamic Modelling and Smart Monitoring”. Building energy performance evaluations and certifications are facing a series of issues and challenges. These include, but are not limited to, the adoption of hourly or dynamic visions in building simulations and evaluations, and the diffusion/integration of IoT and smart solutions, especially for building monitoring and actuation. These challenges enable the consideration of new scenarios combining performance evaluation, optimisation, and prediction under standard and operational phases, and the development of innovative control solutions able to reduce energy needs and improve comfort conditions. Additionally, the need to reduce energy consumption and support sustainable and climate-correlated vision in building design and operation demands technologies and methodologies that are able to adopt low-energy solutions that are currently fairly or not yet evaluated. In particular, this Issue refers to the impact of free-running and passive/natural techniques (e.g., cooling and heating, such as ventilative cooling), low-energy systems, and smart technology on comfort evaluation and prediction (thermal, IAQ, visual)—including actuations and self-actions. Energy and comfort integration in dynamic modelling and operation is also essential to support pandemic and post-pandemic building optimisation considering changes in building user profiles and requirements.

This Special Issue will deal with climate, free-running and/or smart solutions able to support the dynamic evaluation of building energy and comfort issues in both modelling and operation. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Free-running building and system performance (monitoring, evaluation, optimization, etc.);
  • Proactive building control exploiting free-running and low-energy potentials;
  • Thermal, IAQ and visual comfort monitoring and simulation;
  • Smart technologies and actuation solutions including self-user activation/information;
  • IoT and ICT solutions for building performance monitoring, evaluation, and optimization (energy and comfort);
  • Effects of smart technology on building performance (operation/simulation);
  • Dynamic/hourly energy/comfort labelling and building performance optimization (design and operation);
  • Building operation, home automation, and user self-activation;
  • Climate building design and operation.

Dr. Giacomo Chiesa
Dr. Michal Pomianowski
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • free-running
  • low-energy systems
  • dynamic simulation
  • building operation
  • IoT
  • smart buildings
  • performance evaluation
  • energy certification
  • comfort (thermal, IAQ, visual)
  • user self-actuation
  • ventilative cooling
  • building control systems
  • building management systems

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission, see below for planned papers.

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: PREDYCE – A New Tool for Building Energy Optimization: First Round of Successful Dynamic Model Simulations
Authors: Giacomo Chiesa; Francesca Fasano; Paolo Grasso
Affiliation: Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
Abstract: Several tools and software support building energy modelling for optimization, certification and comparison of different scenarios and usages. Nevertheless, the consistent rise in accessible computational power and the expansion of ICT (information and communication technologies) are pushing the development of new combination of software functionalities and tool usage potentialities able to support cross-disciplinary works and building smart optimization and simulation. The paper introduces PREDYCE, a new under development platform, combining EnergyPlus dynamic simulation tool with extra-functionalities and pre-defined usage scenarios based on automatic actions to manage massive simulations and correlated analyses. The initial version of the tool is tested considering three sample usages of PREDYCE: compare simple retrofit actions to reduce net energy needs; analyze free-running potential of a demo building and the impact of different low-energy technologies in increasing thermal comfort (shading and ventilative cooling); and compare measured sensor data indicators with simulated ones under real weather conditions for model verification. Extra functionalities are under development and will be detailed in future project outcomes.

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