Strategies towards Energy and Climate-Resilient Buildings
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 November 2023) | Viewed by 4114
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building integrated green infrastructures; building energy efficiency; sustainability and energy efficiency in rural buildings; Life Cycle Assessment; greenhouse technologies.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The building sector plays a crucial role in pursuing environmental sustainability, given its high energy consumption and high environmental impact. Improving buildings’ energy efficiency, by implementing innovative envelope constructive solutions and/or renewable energy systems, both in urban and rural contexts, is the key strategy.
In this perspective, real living technologies as building-integrated greenery systems can provide significant benefits at the building scale. Plant integration in buildings, as in the form of green roofs and vertical green systems, can enhance building thermal performance and reduce energy demand for building air conditioning.
Research has a great responsibility in promoting a progressive change in conventional thinking and in proposing new viable alternatives. Studies and analyses on proper methodologies, technologies and energy management approaches are imperative for achieving a sustainable green transition. Research efforts are required to broaden knowledge on the energy savings for cooling and heating obtainable with green systems to better estimate their effective benefit.
It is of great importance to analyze the performance of different techniques, including their integrated application, to find optimized configurations in each climate region to maximize their effectiveness and stimulate wider adoption of these strategies. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect the results of research advances, case studies, and simulation analyses which represent contributions to the knowledge and application of technologies for energy-efficient buildings and more sustainable climate-resilient constructed environments. Knowledge sharing can suggest new research insights and promote the dissemination of new technologies in real-life contexts.
Therefore, we are inviting contributions dealing with advances in sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for urban and rural buildings, to be implemented in existing building heritage and in new planning and design. Studies focusing on buildings’ passive design, nature-based solutions and integration of renewable energy sources, and energy and dynamic thermal behavior of sustainable technologies/materials integrated in new, existing, or renovated buildings are particularly encouraged.
In this Special Issue, research articles, reviews, communications, and concept papers are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Climate-resilient architecture;
- Renewable energy systems for urban and rural buildings;
- Current and new practices for Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings;
- Energy and environmental analysis of innovative technologies for high-energy-performance buildings;
- Advances in strategies and technologies for sustainable retrofitting of buildings to improve energy performance;
- Building envelope design and optimization;
- Long-term thermal and energy performance of nature-based solutions in the building sector;
- Sustainability assessments of Building-Integrated Vegetation Systems.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ileana Blanco
Dr. Fabiana Convertino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nearly zero-energy buildings
- green buildings
- sustainable architecture
- passive design
- renewable energy sources
- nature-based building solutions
- green roofs
- vertical greenery systems
