Special Issue "Energy-Building-Indoor Environment for Long-Term Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jianhui Hu
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: Large-Span Spatial Buildings; Polar Buildings; Sustainable Building; Solar Energy; BIPV; Inflatable Structures
Prof. Dr. Carol Monticelli
E-Mail Website
Co-Guest Editor
Department of Architecture Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan 20133, Italy
Interests: life cycle assessment; eco-sustainable design of buildings; environmental impact in construction; lightweight structures; textiles; membranes
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Dr. Zhengyu Fan
E-Mail Website
Co-Guest Editor
Department of Architecture, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
Interests: green building technology; renewable energy utilization in green building; building integrated photovoltaics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nearly 40% of the primary global energy is consumed by buildings in order to maintain comfort in the indoor environment, which is one major reason for greenhouse gas emissions. To improve the performance of buildings through the use of new energy technologies, many novel active and passive strategies (i.e., renewable energy, energy storage, building monitoring, and performance control) have been developed in recent decades. The novel theories and innovation technologies in energy technologies for buildings and the built environment are critical in order to reduce energy comsumption so as to meet the aim of long-term sustainability.

To assess and evaluate the relationship between energy, buildings, and the built environment, big data from buildings are now available for promoting sustainability at a regional and global level. The data methodology and applications on the interdisciplinary areas of energy–building–indoor environment are gaining more and more attention. Artificial intelligence based on big data is an efficient method for energy and indoor environment issues.

This Special Issue will provide a platform for discussing multi-disciplinary and insightful ideas to support novel throries, methodologies, and empirical research on the energy–building–indoor environment for long-term Sustainability. This Special Issue can establish close links among academic research and engineers to address energy, building, and environmental challenges for sustainablibity.

Potential topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Revised traditional electrica/thermal energy technologies in buildings
  • Renewable energy and consumption control in buildings
  • Revised indicators of the systems of energy and the indoor environment
  • Building energy performance assessment and benchmarking
  • Building performance control techniques
  • Data mining and artificial intelligence technologies for building sectors
  • Validation, practices, engineering projects, and guidelines for future buildings
  • National and international policies about the future energy–building–indoor environment
  • Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the energy–building–indoor environment

Dr. Jianhui Hu
Prof. Dr. Carol Monticelli
Dr. Zhengyu Fan
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • electrical/thermal energy technologies
  • renewable energy
  • energy consumption
  • indicators systems of energy
  • indoor environment
  • energy performance assessment
  • benchmarking results
  • building performance control techniques
  • data mining for building sectors
  • artificial intelligence technologies for building sectors
  • practices and engineering projects for future buildings
  • guideline for future buildings
  • national and international policies

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
Back to TopTop