Special Issue "Innovations in Sustainable Architecture, Engineering and Construction"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Audrius Banaitis
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Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius 10221, Lithuania
Interests: renovation of buildings; green and sustainable construction; sustainable supply chain management; energy behavior change; property management; multiple criteria decision making: applications in construction and real estate
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Prof. Dr. Chunlu Liu
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School of Architecture and Built Environment, Waterfront Campus, Deakin University, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
Interests: construction economics; project lifecycle management; sustainability assessment
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Prof. Dr. Nerija Banaitiene
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Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 10221 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: project and risk management; quality management; energy behavior change; building life cycle analysis; multiple criteria decision making
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

Sustainable architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) is dedicated to the sustainability of the AEC industry and the sustainable development of economy, environment and society that it is associated with. Sustainable AEC is becoming increasingly important in the world as the AEC consumes huge natural resources from the earth to facilitate the needs of growing population and expanding industries. Sustainable AEC is affected by a large number of complex factors, with numerous stakeholders. Design, construction, operations and management at both company and project levels, without one exception, involve various challenges towards sustainability in the past and future. Innovations have been, and will be, the determining factor for growth and development in AEC. Innovations in sustainable AEC can be done in all levels, including the life cycle of a building, the business administration of a company, and the industrial policies and relations. This Special Issue will make known the latest advances in research and practice towards a more sustainable AEC in relation to energies and buildings. Relevant areas to this Special Issue include: building technologies; design and construction innovations; energy consumption and efficiency; sustainable principles and others. 

Prof. Dr. Audrius Banaitis
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chunlu Liu
Prof. Dr. Nerija Banaitiene
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • energy consumption and efficiency
  • sustainable building technologies
  • innovations in AEC
  • circular economics
  • waste minimisation
  • energy efficient supply chains
  • energy efficiency improvement measures
  • green building design

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Overcoming the Project Communications Management Breakdown amongst Foreign Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Biophilia Inveigled Construction Projects in Malaysia
Energies 2021, 14(16), 4790; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164790 - 06 Aug 2021
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The property sector is revitalised to incorporate sustainability, specifically the biophilic design, to encourage human interaction with nature. Thus, there is an urgent need to communicate the biophilic design elements amongst stakeholders, especially the foreign workers, to ensure the project meets the requirement. [...] Read more.
The property sector is revitalised to incorporate sustainability, specifically the biophilic design, to encourage human interaction with nature. Thus, there is an urgent need to communicate the biophilic design elements amongst stakeholders, especially the foreign workers, to ensure the project meets the requirement. However, standard project communications management is no longer practical, as the construction industry worldwide has been severely impacted by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Hence, this paper evaluates the biophilic design elements to be communicated and examines the project communications management breakdown relating to the biophilic design elements in the Malaysian construction industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a systematic literature review (SLR), focus group discussion (FGD) and questionnaire survey on 147 foreign workers, this paper found that from 33 biophilic design element items, only 1 item is categorised as highly critical, whereas another 20 items are categorised as critical. In addition, 43 potential communications management breakdown items from a total of 66 items fall under the critical category. The finding suggests that communication breakdown is caused by the language barrier amongst foreign workers from different ethnicities as well as between foreign workers and the supervisors, since face to face communication is limited during the pandemic. Full article
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Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Vanadium-Titanium Black Ceramic Solar Collectors
Energies 2021, 14(3), 618; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030618 - 26 Jan 2021
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The vanadium-titanium black ceramic (VTBC) coating on all-ceramic solar collectors has both high absorptance (0.94) and high emissivity (90%). However, the thermal conductivity of ceramic is very low (1.256 W/mK). To improve the heat collection efficiency of VTBC solar collectors, this paper establishes [...] Read more.
The vanadium-titanium black ceramic (VTBC) coating on all-ceramic solar collectors has both high absorptance (0.94) and high emissivity (90%). However, the thermal conductivity of ceramic is very low (1.256 W/mK). To improve the heat collection efficiency of VTBC solar collectors, this paper establishes a mathematical model based on the energy-conservation relationships under steady-state conditions and creates a corresponding computer program. Key parameters for VTBC solar collectors include the heat-removal factor, effective transmittance-absorptance product for the absorber, total heat loss coefficient, etc. Then, via experimental testing, this study proposes a reference model for domestic VTBC solar collectors in a cold location (η = 0.89 − 2.20Tm*). Last, this work analyzes the influences of fin design and transparent cover design on VTBC solar collectors individually, using the created computer program. Results show that the most effective optimization method is to increase the transmittance of the transparent cover. By increasing the transmittance from 0.93 to 0.96, this study creates an optimized VTBC solar collector theoretical model (η = 0.92 − 2.20Tm*). Full article
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