Optimizing Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Buildings, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 December 2025 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy efficiency in building; thermal engineering; building simulation; green building
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to share the success of our Special Issue “Optimizing Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Building” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/3248XG6R0X). We are now preparing to launch the second edition of this Special Issue and are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to Energies.
Today, it is widely accepted that climate change is a global phenomenon. Not only is the average temperature rising but heatwaves are also becoming more frequent. In addition, at present, the construction industry is not particularly adapted to extreme heat. Thus, research is necessary not only to analyse how building design will impact the climate but also how the future climate will impact building design.
On the other hand, the design of buildings aims to achieve a number of objectives in terms of energy consumption and the quality of indoor environments, which are often in conflict with each other. Thus, managing conflicting criteria in building design optimization is a real challenge that needs to be addressed.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to methods, modelling, experimentation, and application for optimizing energy-efficient design in tandem with thermal comfort for indoor spaces.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Optimal design methodologies;
- Multi-objective optimization;
- Advanced modelling approaches;
- Suitable design of experiments;
- Energy efficiency measures;
- Thermal comfort assessment;
- Efficient cooling and heating systems.
Prof. Dr. Christian Inard
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- design
- optimization
- modelling
- experimentation
- thermal comfort
- energy efficiency
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