Exploring Energy Saving and Building Thermal Comfort as a Tool to Mitigate Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Accomplishing energy saving in buildings is essential to achieve the 2050 decarbonization goals. In order to achieve this, buildings must improve their energy performance to ensure both thermal comfort for users and a low environmental impact. For this reason, it is necessary to carry out interdisciplinary analyses of the energy saving–thermal comfort relationship in order to discover the best strategies that should be applied for energy saving and how the impact of climate change can be reduced.

The objective of this Special Issue is to analyze the importance of thermal comfort and energy saving in the built environment. The expected scope of this Special Issue includes all relevant approaches, namely concentrating on:

• Thermal comfort in buildings;
• Adaptive thermal comfort;
• Natural ventilation;
• Mixed-mode;
• HVAC systems;
• Energy conservation measures;
• Energy poverty;
• Energy saving.

The published studies will serve to broaden the existing knowledge on optimal energy saving in buildings and its implications for thermal comfort. These studies will be of great interest to researchers, architects, engineers and other technicians involved in the construction industry.

Dr. David Bienvenido-Huertas
Dr. Daniel Sánchez-García
Guest Editors

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