Cost–Benefit Analysis of Energy Saving Measures in Non-Residential Buildings: Advancements, Challenges, and Policy Implications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 October 2025 | Viewed by 34
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Interests: energy; engineering thermodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; CFD simulation; energy saving; civil engineering; renewable energy technologies; heat exchangers; thermal engineering; adsorption
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Dear Colleagues,
Non-residential buildings like commercial, institutional, industrial, and public facilities significantly contribute to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Implementing energy-saving measures in these buildings is crucial to achieve the increasingly more challenging global decarbonization and energy efficiency goals. These measures comprehend technological upgrades, control systems, operational strategies, or deep-scale retrofits. However, decision makers often face challenges in evaluating the economic viability of such interventions. Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) serves as a critical tool to assess the financial, environmental, and social value of energy-saving measures, enabling informed investments and policy choices across diverse building types and use cases.
This Special Issue aims to collect innovative approaches related to the cost–benefit analysis of energy-saving measures in non-residential buildings. The issue welcomes contributions that quantify and evaluate direct and indirect impacts of such measures, considering many variables as capital costs, operational savings, lifecycle impacts, user comfort, and environmental benefits. Compatible studies include data analyses, statistics, methodological developments, analyses of case studies, and decision-support tools that guide stakeholders—including building owners, facility managers, investors, and policymakers—in identifying and prioritizing optimal energy efficiency strategies. Interdisciplinary perspectives from fields such as engineering, economics, environmental science, and policy analysis are a plus.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Methodological approaches for cost–benefit analysis of energy-saving measures;
• Life-cycle cost analysis and performance-based financial metrics (e.g., NPV, IRR, payback period);
• Assessment of multiple non-financial benefits: thermal comfort, indoor air quality, occupant health, and productivity;
• Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in energy investment decisions;
• Comparative analysis of passive and active energy-saving technologies.
Dr. Andrea Aquino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cost–benefit analysis of energy efficiency measures
- non-residential building energy performance
- life-cycle cost analysis in buildings
- energy retrofit economic assessment
- sustainable building investment strategies
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