The Future of Buildings: Technological Change to Protect Climate and Wellbeing

Dear Colleagues,

Zero-emission buildings (ZEB) represent a step forward from current NZEBs, aligning energy performance requirements for new buildings with the longer-term climate neutrality goal and “energy efficiency first principle”.

While the focus of the proposal is the reduction of operational greenhouse gas emissions, ZEB definition further includes the calculation of life-cycle Global Warming Potential (GWP) and its disclosure through the energy performance certificate of the building.

This Special Issue of Energies is seeking papers that can demonstrate technologies that can achieve this ambitious goal. Technologies can range from passive to active systems, from hardware developments to intelligent control architectures, and advanced integrated systems. Owing to different climatic challenges in various regions of the world, we specifically seek contributions from different climatic regions.

This Special Issue is open to all engineering disciplines and a wide range of research topics addressing mitigation technologies for the efficient decarbonization of the built environment. Review papers are also accepted if their main focus is on advancements with a strong link to practical applications in all sectors.

Dr. Bojan Milovanovic
Prof. Dr. Marjana Šijanec Zavrl
Dr. Marina Bagarić
Guest Editors

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