Building Decarbonizations and Energy Efficiency

Dear Colleagues,

The building sector accounts for 40% of energy consumption, 75% of power demand, and 22% carbon emissions in the United States. Building decarbonization is one solution for a sustainable future. This Special Issue aims to tackle various challenges of reducing carbon emissions in the building sector, including the entire life cycle of decarbonization in the sector. Major aspects include: renewable energy resources in buildings, traditional power/energy resources in buildings, building energy usage, building performance, building construction, building designs, and other technologies for building decarbonization. 

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include all aspects of buildings. Some examples are:

1. Building energy renewable generation: solar systems, wind system, geothermal systems, or any other renewable sources in building applications;
2. Building energy traditional usage: building power generation (generators), building power transmission and distribution, building power usage, and power metering;
3. Building energy consumption: building energy modeling, building energy field usage and experiments, HVAC modeling, HVAC energy practical usage and experiments, building/HVAC integration for both modeling and experiments, district energy, urban energy, etc.;
4. Building performance: occupant behaviors, building lighting, and building envelopes;
5. Building Construction: building materials, construction, and automation;
6. Building Design: designs with decarbonization as a target;
7. Building other aspects (not limited): technologies helpful for building decarbonizations, e.g. machine learning/AI.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yanfei Li
Dr. Borui Cui
Guest Editors

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• building energy efficiency
• building decarbonization
• building energy conservation
• decarbonization
• zero-carbon emissions
• building energy saving