Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in modeling building energy and environmental systems in the built environment. The scope of this Special Issue entails modeling building energy and environmental systems at different scales ranging from the building components (e.g., blinds, light fixtures) to city-scale modeling. This issue welcomes submissions that verify and validate their models with measured data or on-site collected data. Possible topics of interest are:

• Developing next generation of building energy and environmental systems modeling tools to design, operate, and retrofit buildings;
• Establishing novel building energy modeling techniques to account for the building scale, urban scale, district scale, and city scale;
• Leveraging building information modeling (BIM), geographic information system (GIS), industrial foundation classes (IFC), digital twins, or similar tools to model building energy and environmental systems in the built environment;
• Advancing our modeling techniques to quantify impacts of occupancy patterns and behaviors in residential and commercial buildings;
• Developing integrated modeling platforms to operate and control building components and systems (e.g., light fixtures, blinds, and smart thermostats, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems);
• Utilizing data-driven methods to study building operation under different existing and future constraints (e.g., dynamic utility rates, future climate scenarios, and future emission tax rates);
• Considering application of artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning and semantic modeling) in modeling building energy and environmental systems;
• Using optimization algorithms to enhance performance of building energy and environmental systems;
• Benefiting from an integrated life cycle analysis (LCA) to account for the impacts of new building materials on the energy, cost, and environmental impacts of buildings.

The aim of this issue is to bring together experts from different disciplines to summarize recent advances in modeling building energy and environmental systems in the built environment and to demonstrate that effectiveness of these modeling techniques that meet the validation and verification requirements.

Dr. Mohammad Heidarinejad
Guest Editor

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• modeling of the built environment
• building energy and environmental systems
• energy-efficient buildings
• building energy simulations
• building control
• sustainable and smart cities