Thermal Comfort and Energy Performance in Building
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 1540
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; buildings; energy consumption; greenhouse gas emissions; thermal comfort; nearly zero-energy buildings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, the building sector is required to directly reduce GHG emissions (by approximately 90%). In this context, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EU) 2018/844 has set the need for European countries to establish energy strategies with the aim of having decarbonized buildings before 2050. These assertive policies overlap in time with a pandemic situation and an increase in energy costs. Given these circumstances, a change of paradigm is deemed necessary, considering integral and variable assessments.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to thermal comfort and energy performance in buildings.
Positive-energy buildings (PEBs) are a dynamic and holistic approach that considers climate change adaptation, adaptive energy-saving strategies and energy poverty. Taking into consideration this innovative approach, prosumers and their economic, social and environmental context should be the centre of the analysis, and solutions for energy generation with minimum consumption, which will radically contribute to attaining an environmentally inclusive society, should be stated. This Special Issue will be divided into three sections that bridge the gaps for PEB implementations: firstly, the potential applicability of adaptive comfort and adaptive strategies, including climate potential for renewable energy production; secondly, energy production and consumption with the optimal configuration of PEBs and thirdly, the application of several energy poverty indicators and the incidence of PEBs in energy poverty mitigation.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Positive-energy buildings;
- Buildings’ climate change adaptation;
- Energy consumption in buildings;
- Energy poverty issues;
- Thermal or hygrothermal comfort models;
- New construction materials or procedures to reduce energy consumption;
- Nearly zero-energy buildings: case studies or guidelines for building an NZEB;
- Energy simulation in buildings to reduce consumption.
Dr. Carlos Rubio-Bellido
Dr. Marta Torres González
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal comfort
- nearly zero-energy buildings
- climate change
- buildings’ consumption
- positive-energy buildings
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