Dear Colleagues,

Currently, buildings consume more than 40% of total energy and emit more than 30% of the greenhouse gas of human society. The high level of energy consumption and carbon emission by building sections has caused serious problems for both developed and developing countries, including climate change, global warming, resource shortage, energy crisis, and ozone layer deterioration.

Green building, which is also known as sustainable building, has the potential to provide numerous benefits, such as renewable and sustainable energy use, environmental conservation, waste recycling and reuse, carbon emission reduction, human physical and mental health, and so forth. As a result, green building has emerged as one of the most important solutions for mitigating the negative effects of buildings while also achieving human society's long-term development. The development of green buildings requires the active participation and cooperation of governments, designers, architects, engineers, researchers, technology producers, managers, and consumers, which makes it an inter-discipline topic that involves building design, construction, operation, maintenance, management, economics, human health, energy, technology, policy, and more.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcomed. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following ones related to green buildings:

• Architecture
• Building design
• Building energy
• Building engineering
• Building intelligence
• Building management.
• Building science
• Building simulation
• Carbon neutrality
• City development
• Clean production of buildings
• Construction
• Economics
• Environmental science
• Green building materials
• Human behavior
• Healthy building
• HVAC system
• Indoor environment quality
• Infrastructure
• Landscape
• Public policy
• Urban planning
• Waste Reduction

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Bin Yang
Dr. Yingdong He
Guest Editors

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• urbanization
• sustainable development
• carbon emission
• green governance
• healthy building
• human-centric design
• building waste
• building environment
• sustainable society
• sustainable building energy