Innovations in Integrated Renewable Energy and Adaptive Building Envelopes
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 November 2024 | Viewed by 90
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building energy saving; zero-energy building; building-integrated photovoltaic/thermal; energy system design and control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Buildings titled "Innovations in Integrated Renewable Energy and Adaptive Building Envelopes".
Integrating renewable energy systems into buildings and developing adaptive building envelopes are two promising approaches for creating more sustainable, energy-efficient buildings. Recent years have seen exciting advances in technologies such as building-integrated photovoltaics, solar thermal systems, phase change materials, electrochromic windows and passive cooling techniques.
This Special Issue seeks to publish cutting-edge research related to these technologies and their integration into high-performance buildings. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews and real-world case studies focused on topics including, but not limited to:
- Building-integrated photovoltaic systems;
- Solar thermal and hybrid PV/thermal systems;
- Phase change materials for dynamic insulation;
- Smart glazing, electrochromic windows;
- Radiative sky cooling;
- Natural ventilation and passive cooling;
- Techno-economic analyses;
- Demonstration projects and field studies.
The objective is to highlight current innovations and future opportunities at the intersection of integrated renewables and adaptive building envelopes. We aim to foster knowledge sharing to accelerate the development and adoption of these key technologies for sustainable buildings.
Please consider submitting your latest research results and insights. We look forward to your contributions to this exciting and rapidly evolving field.
Dr. Yelin Zhang
Prof. Dr. Haoshan Ren
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- building integrated photovoltaics
- solar thermal
- smart glazing
- radiative sky cooling
- phase change materials
- dynamic insulation
- demand response
- techno-economic analysis
