High Efficient Buildings in Mediterranean Area: Challenges and Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “High Efficient buildings in Mediterranean Area: Challenges and Perspectives”.

Design and operation of high efficient low-energy buildings in Mediterranean area can be a challenging task because of the often balanced requirement for heating and cooling energy. Several systems and technologies have been recently proposed in order to optimize the building envelope and the air-conditioning plant, to opportunely control and manage energy requirements and to attain valuable design procedures in function of the building typology and the climatic context.

This Special Issue will deal topic related to the assessment and evaluation of systems and technologies for building energy management and control in Mediterranean climate, aimed at the optimization of the building-plant system and the reduction of energy use.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

• Energy demands reduction in Mediterranean area;
• nZEB design for Mediterranean area;
• Exploitation of building thermal inertia;
• Renewable sources application in nNEB and N-ZEB;
• Passive systems for the building envelope;
• Smart air conditioning plant for building energy minimization;
• Hybrid plants based on renewable sources;
• Demand side management for building energy use optimization;
• Energy storage system for building application;
• Solar assisted heat pump to increase the renewable use in buildings;

Prof. Dr.  Natale Arcuri
Dr. Roberto Bruno
Dr. Piero Bevilacqua
Guest Editors

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