Solutions for the Emerging Low-Energy Building Industry, Environmental Quality and Sustainable Waste Management
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1817
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental engineering; sustainable development; sustainable buildings; materials for building engineering services; materials for sustainable buildings; materials science and engineering; novel materials with special properties; advanced materials; environmental quality; indoor air quality (IAQ); outdoor air quality (OAQ); quality of industrial microclimate; industrial wastes; waste recycling; circular economy; applied chemistry
Interests: applied mathematics; applied informatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, increasingly more legislators have pushed the energy efficiency of buildings to lower, reduced limits. In this context, analyses of the design, implementation and cost of novel solutions are existing related affairs. This Special Issue is open to papers reporting on novel solutions to problems surrounding building sustainability, as well as case studies concerning the increase in the energy efficiency of existing buildings through the use of insulation materials. Since the cost/efficiency ratio is always a driving force in a healthy economy, economic studies are also welcomed.
With growing concerns encompassing sustainable development and environmental protection, sustainable building concepts have, in recent days, been widely promoted and implemented. Renewable energy systems, including those for energy harvesting, conversion and storage, are one of the most important design factors in sustainable buildings.
Using renewable energy and sustainable materials for the creation of sustainable buildings could lead to:
- The elimination/minimization of negative impacts on the environment;
- The elimination of environmental issues (such as climate change);
- Improvements in quality of life.
This Special Issue aims to present a collection of original research papers and review articles describing solutions for the emerging low-energy building industry, improving environmental quality and sustainable waste management. Topics of particular interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Sustainable buildings;
- Green energy;
- Renewable energy in buildings;
- Materials for sustainable buildings;
- Sustainability;
- Sustainable development;
- Environmental protection;
- Sustainable utilization of wastes;
- Indoor air quality;
- Waste recycling;
- Air, soil and water pollution and methods for limiting pollution.
Prof. Dr. Dana-Adriana ILUŢIU-VARVARA
Prof. Dr. Lorentz Jäntschi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable buildings
- green energy
- renewable energy in buildings
- materials for sustainable buildings
- sustainability
- sustainable development
- environmental protection
- sustainable utilization of wastes
- indoor air quality
- waste recycling
- air, soil and water pollution and methods for limiting pollution
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