Innovative Technologies to Optimize Building Energy Performance
A special issue of Thermo (ISSN 2673-7264).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2024 | Viewed by 4604
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermodynamics; modeling of energy systems; energy optimization; energy efficiency; building performance simulation; building optimization; energy retrofit; sustainable design; cost-optimal analysis; energy policies
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Dear Colleagues,
It is well known that building energy optimization and sustainable development are on the same track. The development of new efficient and effective technologies in this sector is a must to fight some critical issues of our generations, such as climatic change, energy poverty, and economic crises. Indeed, the words “sustainable”, “building”, “energy”, “optimization”, and “innovation” provide concepts that need to be combined to promote sustainable development and green economy. New frontiers concerning technologies to reduce the energy intensity of the building sector need to be discovered.
In this frame, this Special Issue aims to provide a collection of worthy studies concerning
- Innovative technologies to improve the energy performance of the building envelope;
- Innovative technologies to reduce the primary energy consumption of building active systems, as concerns both design and operation/control;
- Innovative integrated technologies concerning envelope and systems to optimize building energy performance.
Original papers related to the above topics and also dealing generally with technologies, methodologies, numerical and experimental investigations, and case studies addressing building energy optimization are welcome.
Thank you for your contributions.
Dr. Gerardo Maria Mauro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- innovative building technologies
- energy optimization
- sustainability
- energy efficiency
- building energy performance
- building performance simulation
- building performance optimization
- building envelope
- active energy systems
- renewable energy sources
- optimization methodologies
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