Energy Efficiency and Carbon Neutrality in Buildings—2nd Edition
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: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 586
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainability issues in the built environment; green, net zero carbon, and resilient built environment; project management; digital technologies
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge of our time. A major source of this challenge is the buildings and construction sector, which represents an estimated 37% of global operational energy use and process-related carbon emissions, making it the biggest global climate offender. To address the critical global climate change challenge, we need to improve and transform the energy and carbon performance of the buildings and construction sector to secure a future that is energy efficient, resilient, and has net-zero carbon emmissions. However, the buildings and construction sector is not on track to address this challenge. An call has been made for immediate “concrete actions” if we are to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change. Following the successful completion of the first edition, the second edition of this Special Issue calls on researchers who are working on topics relevant to energy efficiency and carbon neutrality (i.e., net-zero carbon emissions) in the buildings and construction sector to share their latest accomplishments and research findings. The goal is to facilitate knowledge dissemination in promoting the energy efficiency and carbon neutrality transformation of the buildings and construction sector with the aim of addressing climate change. Both review and original papers are welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Energy efficient and net-zero carbon emissions focused planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition of buildings.
- Energy and carbon management and mitigation in buildings and construction.
- Digital solutions to save energy and carbon in buildings and construction.
- Assessing, monitoring, and reducing energy demand and consumption, and the carbon emissions of buildings and construction.
- In-use energy consumption estimating, monitoring, and reduction.
- Building energy modeling and simulation.
- Renewable energy generation and utilization.
- Carbon offsetting.
- Energy efficient and net-zero carbon building materials.
- Energy efficiency and net-zero carbon-focused retrofitting.
- Net-zero project management.
- Building energy efficiency and net-zero carbon policies and frameworks.
- Challenges, opportunities, and strategies for delivery energy efficiency and net zero.
- Occupant behavior, comfort, health, wellbeing, and quality of life.
- Economic, environmental, and social aspects in energy efficiency and carbon neutrality.
- Climate resiliency in buildings and construction
Dr. Amos Darko
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- climate change
- energy efficiency
- carbon neautrality
- net-zero carbon
- resilience
- buildings and construction
- sustainable built environment
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